Toward the end of the movie when John Banner shoots Otto Shack and drapes him over the barb wire, he is questioned by another German soldier. That soldier is
Sig Ruman who played Sgt. Schultz in the movie "Stalag 17". So you've got the Schultz from "Stalag 17" & Schultz from "Hogan's Heroes" in the same scene.
Now that is funny!!! I also know that the german woman who is wearing the wedding ring and who helped the two of them, WELL SHE'S T'PAU from Star Trek the original series. The episode was AMOK TIME!!! How interesting!!!
shareYes, she WAS T'Pau! Her name was Celia Lovsky and she was an amazingly versatile character actress. Remember that '60's Roger Corman "St. Valentines Day Massacre"? She portrayed the mother of one of the gangster hangers-on, speaking German, no less: "Verstahen sie, Reinhard...? You must be a gut boy, ya?"
Another great part for her was in "Soylent Green" where she played opposite the late, great Edward G. Robinson: she, as the Chairwoman of "The Exchange" and he, as Charelton Heston's "book" (investigator/researcher).
She was quite literally, all over early television, from several episodes of "Four Star Playhouse" and "General Electric Theatre" to a few "Twilight Zones", also James Cagney's/Lon Chaney's mother in "Man of a Thousand Faces".
Later she was in a number of "Dragnet" episodes... like I said, she was all over television.
I loved her in every single role in which I've ever seen her! She was quite a lady!
TjB
Aha!!! Soylent Green. I saw it two weeks ago on TCM, I believe it was. I remember the scene, when Edward G. Robinson walks into the Library of sorts and there sitting at a table was Celia Lovsky with this big book in front of her. I said out loud. "Oh, there's TPau again!!!". lol
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Yes, you will see her many times over the course of your film/television viewing. Like I said in my previous post, she was all over the place. You might remember a late '40s film called "The Snake Pit" with Olivia de Havilland as a patient in a mental hospital. This was one of Celia Lovsky's first roles, as she quit acting when she came to the US in 1933 with her husband (surprise) Peter Lorre, who Jewish.
"The Snake Pit" is out on DVD; in and of itself, it's worth having anyway.
TjB
...always claimed that their show was not based on Stalag 17, although it was clearly "inspired" by it. Both shows have Sgt. Schultz and he is the a similar character in each, as played by Ruman and Banner, who were similar actors. Sig was one of the Russian commisars in "Ninoshcka" and the theatrical empresario in "A Night at the Opera".
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