Bob Crane

Birthday: 13 July 1928, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

Birth Name: Robert Edward Crane

Height: 178 cm

Handsome Bob Crane had many careers including working as a disc jockey for a while. He started acting around the age of 33. One of his first acting jobs was in Return to Peyton Place (1961). After a guest appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) and a supporting role on The Donna Reed Show (1958), he landed the lead role of Col. Robert Hogan in Hogan's Heroes (1965). After the cancellation of that show he was in several TV movies and two Disney films. He also got his own show in 1975, but it was canceled after only a few months. With his career not going too well Bob started doing dinner theater plays. In 1978 he got the lead in a production of the play "Beginner's Luck in Scottsdale, AZ. A month after he started the play he was found murdered in his hotel room. He had one son and was separated from his second wife, Sigrid Valdis. With his first wife he had a son and two daughters. Show less «

When I was a kid, I fell in love with Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous." That, to me, was the i...Show more »

When I was a kid, I fell in love with Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous." That, to me, was the ideal. A good man, a brave man. What I would want to be. I'm still in love with that. Show less «

It's not a concentration camp. It's a POW camp. We're not making light of atrocities. We're just try...Show more »

It's not a concentration camp. It's a POW camp. We're not making light of atrocities. We're just trying to show how darn clever the Americans were. It was easy to see which letter writers hadn't watched the program. No one could see "Hogan's Heroes" and think we were making fun of war. Our comedy is done with characterization. It's outsmarting the boss; it's the kid with a snowball when the top hat goes by; it's getting the best of authority. Show less «

Eventually, what you're looking for is gonna happen, and by the time it does happen, you'll be that ...Show more »

Eventually, what you're looking for is gonna happen, and by the time it does happen, you'll be that much better along the way to what you should be. Don't get discouraged, and just keep on plugging along, and what you want will eventually be yours. You know, there's nothing to stop it if you just keep on working hard. And by working hard, I mean doing the best job you possibly can. Everything happens for the best, and I believe it completely. Show less «

I don't smoke, I don't drink. Two out of three ain't bad.

The first station I started out with was a 250-watt station. I went to a 1,000-watt station, which w...Show more »

The first station I started out with was a 250-watt station. I went to a 1,000-watt station, which was the Bridgeport station... And from the 1,000-watt, I went to the 50,000-watt, which is quite a jump, and it has happened to a lot of people. It's a fortunate thing to be in the right place at the right time. Show less «

If I tell a joke that's not so funny, I have a faster-than-sound plane which shoots it down before i...Show more »

If I tell a joke that's not so funny, I have a faster-than-sound plane which shoots it down before it reaches San Francisco. Show less «

Bob Crane

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