Anecdotes

Has a tattoo on his left forearm, "A5714," from his time in a German concentration camp during WWII.

Was good friends with Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink from Papa Schultz (1965)), even after the show had been canceled, and until Werner's death.

Was the youngest of 14 children; most of whom died in the Nazi concentration camps.

Clary was the last surviving complete series cast member of Papa Schultz (1965). Final season regular Kenneth Washington is the last surviving principal cast member of the show.

Retired from acting and gives lectures about the Holocaust. (décembre 2001)

Best remembered by the public for his role as "Corporal Louis LeBeau" in the television series Papa Schultz (1965).

Clary and Larry Hovis (Andrew Carter on Papa Schultz (1965), former singer) would sing together between shots.

Began singing professionally at the age of 12.

He moved to the US in 1949 and found work in nightclubs, then made a name for himself in the Broadway show "New Faces of 1952."

At Buchenwald, Clary sang to an audience of SS soldiers every other Sunday, accompanied by an accordionist. He said, "Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived. I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with ... I don't know if I would have survived if I really knew that.

During most of the filming of the first season of Papa Schultz (1965), Robert became frustrated with the smallness of the part he was playing. At one point, he wanted to leave the show altogether, but something a director said to him changed his mind.

Clary spent years touring Canada and the United States, speaking about the Holocaust. He was a painter, painting from photographs he took on his travels.

Son-in-law of Eddie Cantor and Ida Tobias Cantor.

In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth, in Upper Silesia (now Otmet, Poland). He was tattooed with the identification "A5714" on his left forearm. He was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.

Clary published a memoir, From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary, in 2001.

Clary appeared in the 1975 film The Hindenburg, which portrayed a fictional plot to blow up the German airship after it arrived at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. He played Joseph Späh, a real-life passenger on the airship's final voyage.

Was friends with Robert Conrad.

Brother-in-law of Marjorie Cantor, Edna Cantor McHugh, Marilyn Cantor Baker and Janet Cantor Gari.

One of his Broadway revues was "La Plume de ma Tante," which was playing at the Royale Theatre in 1960.

He and singer Céline Dion are both the youngest of 14 children and learned/spoke French as their first language.

He and Larry Hovis, who played Carter in "Hogan's Heroes," were both pallbearers at Bob Crane's funeral.