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Leon Askin (German pronunciation: [ˈleːɔn ˈaskin] ; born Leo Aschkenasy, 18 September 1907 – 3 June 2005) was an Austrian actor best known in North America for portraying the character General Burkhalter on the TV situation comedy Hogan's Heroes. From the 1950s onward he had a steady career on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Leon Askin (German pronunciation: [ˈleːɔn ˈaskin] ; born Leo Aschkenasy, 18 September 1907 – 3 June 2005) was an Austrian actor best known in North America for portraying the character General Burkhalter on the TV situation comedy Hogan's Heroes. From the 1950s onward he had a steady career on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Life and career Leon Askin was born as Leo Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, on September 18, 1907. His parents, Malvine (née Susman) and Samuel Aschkenasy, were later murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp during the Holocaust. Askin’s first experience with performance came during World War I, when, as a child, he recited a poem before Emperor Franz Joseph. In the 1920s, he studied acting under Louise Dumont and Max Reinhardt. In the 1930s, he directed politically charged works by playwright Jura Soyfer at Vienna’s "ABC" cabaret theater. His professional debut as an actor came in Vienna in 1926 in The Dutch Merchant. Fleeing Austria in 1940 following persecution and physical abuse by the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS), Askin emigrated to the United States. During World War II, he served as a staff sergeant in the United States Army Air Forces. After the war, he began a career in Hollywood, often cast as foreign characters with thick accents. Askin appeared as Anton Rubinstein in a Disneyland television episode about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He was featured in the series Adventures of Superman—first as a diamond smuggler in the 1953 episode "Superman in Exile", and later as a…
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Daniel Boone (1969, episode: "Benvenuto... Who?") Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (1974, episode: "Fiddler in the House")
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Three’s Company (1979, episode: "The Bake-Off") Between 1977 and 1979, Askin appeared on PBS’s Meeting of Minds, portraying both Martin Luther and Karl Marx. He also had a brief appearance as a Moscow news anchor in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), and although he was cast in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974), his scenes were ultimately cut from the final version. Askin's credits on Broadway included portraying Mr. Prince in A Temporary Island (1948) and Second Beard in Twentieth Century (1950).
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Death Askin died from natural causes in Vienna on June 3, 2005, at the age of 97 and is interred at Vienna Central Cemetery.
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Decorations and awards 1988: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1994: Silver Medal for Service to the City of Vienna
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1996: Award of the title "professor" 2001: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class 2002: Gold Medal of Honour for Services to the city of Vienna 2003: Goldener Rathausmann of Vienna to mark the 75th anniversary
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2007: Naming of Leon-Askin-Platz in Vienna-Penzing 2007: A bust of Leon Askin in Türkenschanzpark (Vienna) 2007: Plaque unveiled at Hütteldorferstrasse 349 in Vienna-Penzing, to mark 100th anniversary of Askin's birth 2009: At Sechsschimmelgasse 19 in Vienna-Alsergrund a public housing block was named after him 27 May 2010: Leon-Askin-Park at Grundsteingasse in Ottakring (Vienna's 16th District) named after Askin
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Leon Askin at IMDb Leon Askin at the Internet Broadway Database
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Literature on Leon Askin Leon Askin (in German) from the archive of the Österreichische Mediathek