Robert Clary

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Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman; 1926) is a French-American actor, published writer, artist, and lecturer.

Corporal Louis LeBeau is best known for his role in Hogan's Heroes.

Early life and Holocaust survival

Clary was the youngest of 14 children in Paris, France, and ten of whom would die in the Holocaust. He began performing on a French radio station and also studied art in Paris at the age of twelve. He was arrested in 1942 in Upper Silesia (now Otmt, Poland) because he was Jewish. He had his left forearm tattooed with the symbol "A5714." He was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.

He sang to a slew of SS soldiers every other Sunday at Buchenwald, accompanied by an accordionist. "I survived because of my singing, entertaining, and being in such good shape at my age." I was young and young, not fully aware of what I was dealing with at the time, so I was very young and young, not fully aware of what I was doing.... I'm not sure if I'd have survived if I had figured out what it was like.

Clary wrote about his experience in a letter.

Clary was released from Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. Twelve others of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, and Clary was the only survivor. When he returned to Paris after World War II, he learned that three of his 13 siblings had not been taken away and had survived the Nazi occupation of France.

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Career

Clary returned to the entertainment industry, performing songs that were not only popular in France but also in the United States. Clary made his first recordings in 1948; they were sent by wire to the United States and then released on disk by Capitol Records. In October 1949, he went to the United States. On the Ed Wynn Show in 1950, one of Clary's first American appearances was a French-language comedy skit. Clary and Eddie Cantor were later introduced to Merv Griffin and Eddie Cantor. Clary eventually met Cantor's daughter Natalie Cantor Metzger, who married in 1965 after being "the closest of family" for 15 years. Clary received a spot on The Colgate Comedy Hour later this year. Clary appeared on NBC's early sitcom The Martha Raye Show and CBS's drama anthology series Appointment with Adventure in the mid-1950s.

Clary's comedic talents were quickly recognized by Broadway, where he appeared in a number of famous musicals, including New Faces of 1952, which was released as a film in 1954.

He appeared in the film Thief of Damascus, which also starred Paul Henreid and Lon Chaney, Jr., in 1952. He appeared on The Gisele MacKenzie Show in 1958 (NBC). In the episode "Green Eyed Munsters," Louis Schecter, Lily's acting coach, appeared on The Munsters Today (1989) as Louis Schecter, Lily's acting coach.

He appeared in Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's title role in a British production of an Edward Chodorov play, Monsieur Lautrec, in 1959. The play at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry ran for two weeks. Despite the fact that The Stage panned the performance, Clary lauded for playing Lautrec "with a delicacy and then a ferocious intensity."

Later life and career

Clary maintained close ties to fellow Hogan's Heroes cast members Werner Klemperer, John Banner, and Leon Askin, who were both affected by the Holocaust. Following the show's cancellation, he appeared in a handful of World War II-themed films, including the made-for-television film Remembrance of Love about the Holocaust. Clary appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Clary appeared in the 1975 film The Hindenburg, which portrayed a fictional plot to blow up the German airship as it landed at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. On the ship's last voyage, Joseph Späh, a real-life passenger, appeared.

Clary spent years in Canada and the United States, speaking out about the Holocaust. He is a painter who works from photographs. On his travels, he paints from photographs.

Clary released a memoir titled From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: Robert Clary's Autobiography in 2001.

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