John Banner (28 January 1910 – 28 January 1973), born Johann Banner, was a film and television actor, who was born and died in Vienna, Austria. He is best known for his role as Master Sergeant Hans Georg Schultz in the situation comedy Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971). Schultz, constantly encountering evidence that the inmates of his stalag were planning mayhem, frequently feigned ignorance with the catchphrase, "I know nothing! I see nothing! I hear nothing!"
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Movies
36 Hours, The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, Once Upon a Honeymoon, The Fallen Sparrow, 20,000 Eyes, Seven Miles from Alcatraz, Never Say Goodbye, Guilty of Treason, My Girl Tisa, Star Spangled Salesman, Crash of the Moons, The Story of Ruth, Hitler, The Interns, Callaway Went Thataway, Operation E...
TV Shows
The Chicago Teddy Bears, Hogan's Heroes
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Quote
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There is no such thing as a cuddly Nazi. Maybe Goering was cuddly to his wife. He wasn't cuddly to the city of Rotterdam. Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.
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On his ironic casting as Sgt. Schultz: "Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?"
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Fact
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On Februray 2, 1973, John Banner was interred at Mauer Cemetery, Vienna, plot no 57/2/26.
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John Banner and Werner Klemperer appeared together nearly 10 years prior to "Hogans Heroes" in the episode "Safe Conduct" of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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In _The Untouchables_ episode "Takeover", Banner is pumped for information and says "I know nothing." 3 years before, he made the line famous as Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes (1965).
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Passed away in his native Vienna on his 63rd birthday.
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Another bit of irony, besides John Banner being Jewish and playing a guard in a POW camp... is that like his co-star on Hogan's Heroes, Robert Clary.... John Banner was in a concentration camp prior to his release and travel out of Nazi Occupied Germany (in the early part of the Nazi control of Germany, a trip to a concentration camp was not an automatic "death sentence"). So John Banner was lucky to leave just before the Nazi policies changed.
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Banner is best remembered for his portrayal of the Luftwaffe prison- camp guard Sergeant Schultz in the TV series Hogan's Heroes (1965). But there remains a certain irony: John Banner was Jewish.