Burkhalted

Or

Askin and Answered

(Shouts out to Michelle Haus for both)

Leon Askin, best known as one of the less incompetent Nazis on Hogan’s Heroes, has died at the age of 97. As Gen. Albert Burkhalter, Askin spent most of his time threatening to send Klink to the Russian front until Hogan saved the day. Often cast as the funny villain, Askin appeared in the Rowan and Martin movie The Maltese Bippy. He and Gary Coleman tried to find a comical resolution to the Cold War in a very special episode of Diff’rent Strokes. And who can forget his riveting performance as Moscow Anchorman in Airplane II: The Sequel? He had dozens of other roles, mostly in European productions, and in the 1990s, returned to his native Vienna, Austria and his cabaret roots, and his love of sausage. "We have lost a huge actor," Vienna Mayor Michael Haeupl said in an understatement.