| Leon Askin  AKA Leo Aschkenasy
Born: 18-Sep-1907
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: 3-Jun-2005
Location of death: Vienna, Austria
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: Austria
Executive summary: General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes Military service: US Army Leon Askin's family could not afford to send him to school full-time, so he studied acting at night school while working as a bookkeeper and salesman. He worked as an actor and director in Vienna and parlayed that into a steady work at the famous Louise Dumont Theater in Düsseldorf, Germany. Because of his ethnicity Askin was fired in 1933, and subsequently arrested and beaten.
He returned to Vienna, then fled to Paris in 1938 when the Nazis took Austria. His parents were imprisoned and killed in a Nazi concentration camp. In Paris, Askin was put into a French internment camp -- not for being Jewish, but for being from Nazi-controlled Austria. He applied to emigrate to America, and arrived in New York in 1940, where the Austrian Leo Aschkenasy became the American Leon Askin and served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
As an actor, Askin was often cast as the bad guy with a foreign accent in American movies and TV shows from Mission: Impossible to The Monkees. His most famous role was on the prisoner-of-war sitcom Hogan's Heroes, as General Burkhalter, the big Nazi who was always threatening to send Col. Klink to the Russian front.
Father: Samuel Aschkenasy
Mother: Malvine Aschkenasy
Wife: Mimi
Wife: Annelies "Lies" Ehrlich
Allied Internment Camp Inmate
Austrian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Obesity
TELEVISION
Hogan's Heroes
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Odd Jobs (1984)
Frightmare (Jan-1983) · Wolfgang
Airplane II: The Sequel (10-Dec-1982) · Moscow Anchorman
Going Ape! (10-Apr-1981)
Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (Oct-1973)
Genesis II (23-Mar-1973)
The World's Greatest Athlete (14-Feb-1973)
Hammersmith Is Out (12-May-1972)
The Maltese Bippy (18-Jun-1969) · Axel Kronstadt
A Fine Pair (10-May-1969)
Guns for San Sebastian (20-Mar-1968)
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (3-Jan-1968)
The Perils of Pauline (2-Aug-1967) · Commissar
The Caper of the Golden Bulls (21-Jun-1967)
Double Trouble (5-Apr-1967) · Insp. de Groote
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (31-Aug-1966) · Col. Kastorp
Do Not Disturb (22-Dec-1965) · Langsdorf
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (24-Mar-1965)
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (30-Nov-1962)
One, Two, Three (15-Dec-1961) · Peripetchikoff
Mistress of the World (14-Apr-1960)
The Last Blitzkrieg (30-Jan-1959)
Spy Chasers (31-Jul-1955) · Col. Baxis
Son of Sinbad (31-May-1955)
Carolina Cannonball (28-Jan-1955)
Valley of the Kings (21-Jul-1954) · Valentine Arko
Secret of the Incas (28-May-1954) · Anton Marcu
Knock on Wood (14-Apr-1954) · Gromeck
Veils of Bagdad (7-Oct-1953)
The Robe (16-Sep-1953) · Abidor
China Venture (7-Sep-1953) · Wu King
South Sea Woman (3-Jun-1953) · Pierre Marchand
Desert Legion (20-Apr-1953) · Maj. Vasil
Road to Bali (19-Nov-1952) · Ramayana
Official Website:
http://www.askin.at/
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