Patti’s dead. I don't smoke, I don't drink. It's a POW camp. He married Patricia Olson, whose stage name was Sigrid Valdis and who played Colonel Klink’s secretary Hilda from seasons two through six. They would hook up.” Aiding Crane in his sexual and cinematic conquests was John Henry Carpenter, a video-equipment salesperson from Sony who was pals with Hogan’s Heroes cast member (and future Family Feud host) Richard Dawson and helped Crane acquire gadgetry to watch and make erotica long before the birth of internet porn. Four decades later, the still-unsolved slaying of the enigmatic actor — with its links to a netherworld of sex addiction and pornography — has spawned a 2002 movie, at least five books, three investigations, and a vast spider’s web of speculation. “Carpenter lost it. He still chuckles remembering the time Crane took him, as a 21-year-old, to the 1972 premiere of Deep Throat. “He made some bad moves,” Robert says of his dad. Originally buried at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth, Los Angeles County. For the next several years Bob showed his wares on the dinner theater circuit, acting and directing in "Beginner's Luck", among other productions. Very loosely inspired by World War II movies like The Great Escape (1963), Heroes featured a motley crew of inmates in a German prisoner-of-war camp outfoxing a remarkably inept Third Reich for six seasons. There was a red stain on the curtain. This was no problem for Crane. In 1973 Bob bought the rights to the play, "Beginner's Luck". The actor bought the rights to a play called Beginner’s Luck, a slight romantic comedy he had performed at venues like the Windmill. It was a gorgeous summer morning in 1966 when three young children in South Australia decided to spend the day at the beach. Scottsdale detective Barry Vassall was in Phoenix with a colleague on June 29, 1978, when he was called to unit 132A of the Winfield Apartments. BY THE TIME CRANE GOT TO PHOENIX, HIS second marriage was on the rocks and he was only scoring guest spots on shows like The Love Boat. These are the funny Nazis.”, Crane wasn’t the only one who was confused. In death, Crane got the Hollywood treatment. A month after he started the play he was found murdered in his hotel room. I'm still in love with that. Handsome Bob Crane had many careers including working as a disc jockey for a while. He starred in Superdad (1973) and Gus (1976), two Disney films, and had guest spots on shows, including Police Woman (1974), Ellery Queen (1975) and The Love Boat (1977). Carol Ford, who coauthored Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography and serves as an unofficial spokesperson for Crane’s second family, says the movie overemphasized the star’s fetish. We found blood in [Carpenter’s] rental car and on the passenger door. “It’s absolutely unheard of that a county attorney’s office would allow a reporter to reopen a cold case and do DNA testing,” Hook says. In 1942, at the age of 14, Bob began drumming for the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. That, to me, was the ideal. He started acting around the age of 33, while still doing the Morning Radio Show. Handsome Bob Crane had many careers including working as a disc jockey for a while. Unfortunately NBC canceled the show after 3 months. Bob Crane was not the father of Patti's children. What I would want to be. In 2016, Phoenix TV reporter John Hook convinced the county DA to allow him access to the old blood samples so he could send them to Bode Cellmark Forensics — a firm that (under a previous name and owner) helped with the JonBenét Ramsey and O.J. The cause of death was bludgeoning with a blunt instrument, which police suspected was a video camera tripod. The actor’s son Robert recalls that his father’s dressing room was “porn central,” where the star stored Polaroids, negatives, and X-rated films. His last movie appearance was in the Walt Disney movie. Welcome to WOUB Digital. PHOENIX — The gruesome 1978 murder of ‘60s sitcom star Bob Crane captured the imagination of KSAZ-TV anchor John Hook a couple of years ago. Long before he met his end on the edge of Phoenix, Bob Crane had plunged from the heights of Hollywood into a particularly unfortunate showbiz hell. Olson, who went by the stage name Sigrid Valdis, became Crane’s second wife in 1970 (shortly after he divorced Terzian); the couple had two children, Scott and AnaMarie. The first station I started out with was a 250-watt station. He had reached the peak of his success. “He just loved it because he was meeting all these porn stars.” But by then Crane’s star was fading fast — the culture had changed, and Heroes had ended its run the previous year. The actual tissue sample was long gone, but the image was ruled admissible by a judge, and Carpenter was eventually charged with Crane’s murder in 1992. Then, in 1965, Crane was offered the starring role in a highly controversial television pilot about Allied prisoners in a German P.O.W. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. “He was two weeks shy of 50,” says Robert. “Bob was a non-confrontational guy, and these women liked him,” he says. Meanwhile, Crane’s pre-dilections gave the defense plenty to play with — they suggested an enraged husband or boyfriend could have attacked the actor. In 1949 Bob married Ann Terzian, his high school sweetheart. Once known primarily for his association with the group called the “Black Mountain Poets,” at the time of his death in 2005, Robert Creeley was widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the 20th century. ... Bob is married and has 2 children and enjoys spending time doing family activities and traveling. We're not making light of atrocities. He was a devoted father and family man when he was at home. The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter. 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). 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. Hosted by the African American Children’s Book Project (AACBP), the book fair is one of the oldest and largest single-day events for children's books in the country. "Hogan's Heroes" became a hit show, finishing in the top 10 at the end of the 1965-66 season. The bludgeoned form had once been Bob Crane, a TV star known to millions as the wise-cracking title character on the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. In the years since, the star’s family members have battled grief — and one another. He was later dismissed for not being "serious enough". It was during a 1978 run of "Beginner's Luck" that Bob Crane was brutally murdered in a Scottsdale hotel room. Married to high school sweetheart Anne Terzian and with three children (Robert and his sisters, Deborah and Karen) the actor used his celebrity to meet women, and then collected nude photos of them. 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. “The other side, yes.”. Soon he landed himself a regular role on The Donna Reed Show (1958), as "Doctor David Kelsey". Robert Crane does not speak to his step-siblings, and his mother and sisters refuse to talk about what happened so many years ago in blistering Scottsdale. It was easy to see which letter writers hadn't watched the program. “He collected photographs of women and put together these books — ‘Oh, here’s Sally from Jacksonville, Florida’ — and then he started showing them to people. But there was even more damning evidence than that. That led to a regular spot as a happy-go-lucky dentist on The Donna Reed Show. “We went through all the evidence. Crane’s grisly murder revealed he had been doing a very different sort of on-camera work behind closed doors. “They had a breakup, of sorts,” claims Robert. But, at the same time, he was harboring a deep obsession. In the early morning hours of June 29, 1978 Bob Crane was brutally murdered in his rented apartment room. “We did the best we could,” Vassall says. In the early- through the mid-1960's, Crane was the #1 Morning Man in Southern California at the 50,000 watt KNX-AM, the CBS-Owned and Operated Radio Station in Los Angeles. But for those who loved him, it’s the unanswered questions that are haunting. With his career not going too well, Bob started doing dinner theater plays. Bob Crane was born in Waterbury, CT, the youngest of two sons. “There were some traces of blood on the back of the exit door, the front door, the doorknob. Bob filled the broadcast booth with wry wit and charisma, not to mention drums, chimpanzees, and movie stars.His show was the number-one-rated morning show in Los Angeles and Hollywood's biggest stars were regular guests on his show: Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Jayne Mansfield, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra, to name only a handful. He also got his own show in 1975, but it was canceled after only a few months. The son believes what happened next compromised the hunt for the killer. It was Crane’s blood type. They were never seen again. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. I’m divorcing Patti.’ He wanted to lose people like John Carpenter, who had become a pain in the butt. “And when I say ‘fog,’ it’s that word closure, which I hate. In the midst of his success, Bob's true goal was to make it big as an actor. You live with death for the rest of your life.”, IN THE 1960S, SITCOMS WITH LAME jokes punctuated by a bad laugh track were the norm, but only one dared to mix that cheesiness with bumbling Nazis. Bob Crane was a man conflicted. You know, there's nothing to stop it if you just keep on working hard. June 29, 1978, likely began as nearly all Scottsdale summer days do — temperatures soared above 100 degrees by high noon, and well-heeled residents took refuge in their heavily air-conditioned villas, leaving the wide streets as empty as any Southwest ghost town. However the roles were few and not very fulfilling. “It’s bizarre to me,” he says. But there is no closure. There he began a lengthy, successful career in radio. He was voiced by Roger Craig Smith. “There’s still fog,” says Robert, the 68-year-old author of Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder. On January 25, 1978, Bob Crane taped an episode of, Crane was basically bankrupt during the mid- to late-1970's and, shortly after his murder, his estate would come into millions of dollars from a new syndication deal for. Blood was splattered over the wall and ceiling; there was so much of it, the victim’s pillow was drenched crimson. Shortly thereafter Bob began a radio career which eventually took him west to Los Angeles and landed him in the morning drive slot at CBS powerhouse KNX, where he became known as "The King of the Los Angeles Airwaves". Hollywood's biggest and brightest were frequently interviewed by Bob on his show, including Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Marvin Gaye, Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Hope. She played "Hilda" on "Hogan's Heroes". Several cops were already present, along with a dinner-theater actress named Victoria Berry, who had arranged to meet Crane that day. The disappearance of the Beaumont children became one of Australia’s most famous unsolved cases. Proceed at your own discretion. In 2003, many years after his death, he was moved to the prestigious Westwood Memorial Park on Glendon Avenue in Los Angeles. “I don’t know what else to do,” he says. There weren’t hidden cameras or anything.”. “I don’t think I ever interviewed one that disliked him or was mad at him.”, In the end, there wasn’t enough evidence to convict Carpenter, who was acquitted in 1994 and died four years later. Gudegast started her career from the American family comedy crime film, Holiday in the Sun in 2001. “Bob, what are you talking about?” the agent said, according to Robert’s 2015 book about his dad. Prosecutors had an uphill battle: DNA testing of the blood proved inconclusive, and witnesses came forward to say Crane and Carpenter had a friendly dinner the night before the killing. Robert is willing to go along with the theory but has also pointed the finger at his stepmother, who died of lung cancer at 72 in 2007. His favorites were jazz and big band. Guy Bob “Papa”, “Pop” Shults age 70 of Early, Texas received his wings and met his lord and savior on Sunday January 31, 2021. “At the scene, there was blood everywhere,” Vassall recalls. Robert believes that when his dad tried to pull away, Carpenter, who had followed the star to Arizona, became enraged. He was 49 years old. But that doesn’t always happen. “She was in the middle of a divorce with my dad. Bob Crane may have been recognized as American hero Colonel Hogan in the hit television show “Hogan’s Heroes,” but his son Robert Crane was all … But I never looked at it as dark because it was consensual. He wanted a clean slate.”, That never happened. WWII had ended a mere 20 years before the sitcom’s premiere, a genocidal trauma within the living memory of millions. About 150 mourners attended the funeral at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Westwood, Calif., including Patty Duke, John Astin, Carroll O’Connor, and Crane’s Heroes castmates. Vassall then went to the airport to pick up Robert, Crane’s business manager Lloyd Vaughn, and attorney Bill Goldstein and brought them to the scene. It was during this time that Crane met Patti Olson, known as Sigrid Valdis. The pilot made a splash and Hogan's Heroes (1965) went on to become one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. After the cancellation of that show, he was in several TV movies and two Disney films. He was a life-long jazz buff who played with several amateur jazz groups over the years. 2002: Was the subject of a "noise opera" by the experimental band Facetious (released on CD under the title "Raw Biscuits: The Bob Crane Story"). Celebrities and Movie Stars were among his guests. He was beaten to death while he slept, and strangled with an electrical cord. Not only did cops know that the pair had been fighting, there was no sign of forced entry into Crane’s apartment, which suggested that the victim knew his assailant. Crane kept doing his Radio Show for the full first season of "Hogan's Heroes". I don’t think there was any contamination of the crime scene, which is what you really worry about.”, DNA testing wasn’t available in 1978, but all roads led to Carpenter — Crane’s partner in porn. Bob is a self-proclaimed genius, member of the Republican Party, champion of high culture, former children's entertainer-turned-criminal mastermind and Bart Simpson's nemesis. He is also the main protagonist in the movie trilogy. In 1965 he received the starring role in a new sitcom for CBS called Hogan's Heroes (1965). All we thought was, your life is your life — as long as you’re doing your job properly.”, Crane’s sexual behavior did affect other castmates. A video cable was wrapped around his neck postmortem. “There were no drugs, no coercion, none of that,” explains Robert. If you don't already own the first 100 episodes, I'd … Michael A Frick “I’m not expecting a let’s-hold-hands-at-the-table, but we’ve just never talked about it.” And yet, like all the strangers fascinated by the sunny public life and mysterious death of Bob Crane, he cannot seem to let it go. The bludgeoned form had once been Bob Crane, a TV star known to millions as the wise-cracking title character on the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes.Crane’s grisly … He had charm and an undeniable quick-wit. You only have one or two people in there. He played the smooth-talking, crafty "Colonel Robert Hogan". In 1963 Bob got a role on the popular The Donna Reed Show (1958), as "Dr. Dave Kelsey". "WARNING: SPOILER ALERT. That’s his problem. Bob never said, ‘Hey, I’m Hogan and I’m the star.’”, But Crane was a star, and fame allowed him to indulge his appetite. In the early- through the mid-1960's, Crane was the #1 Morning Man in Southern California at the 50,000 watt KNX-AM, the CBS-Owned and Operated Radio Station in Los Angeles. Absent a murder weapon, detectives couldn’t persuade the county attorney to issue an arrest warrant. Kyle Kyle Crane is a main character and the protagonist of Dying Light and Dying Light: The Following. Robert isn’t embarrassed by his father’s sordid enthusiasms. Bob Crane was born Robert Edward Crane, in Waterbury, Connecticut, July 13th 1928. It was type B blood, all of it.”, But what cops found in Carpenter’s Chrysler Cordoba wasn’t enough. A good man, a brave man. Green Acres co-star Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney) was a regular on Crane's Morning Show for the last several years of the program. It was a comedy about a group of POWs in a Nazi prison camp. He was being rejected, he was being spurned like a lover. Two out of three ain't bad. Bob divorced his wife, Ann, after 20 years of marriage, and married Patti in 1970. Crane was nominated for an Emmy twice, in 1966 and 1967. Kyle Crane, contains plot and/or ending details of Dying Light and all its related media. With Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson. In 1978 he got the lead in a production of the play "Beginner's Luck" in Scottsdale, AZ. “It was a great group to work with. 'When my dad and Patti exchanged their vows on the Hogan's soundstage, Fraulein Hilda just happened to have a strudel in the oven. - IMDb Mini Biography By: His thinking was that if the TV Show were to be canceled, he'd still have a job. After graduating from Stamford High School in 1946 he turned his attention to his love for music. Ohio Men’s Basketball: Bobcats Win at CMU for First Time Since 2013, Extend Win Streak to Four After two years the producers let him go, saying his character was "too suggestive". He’s now focused on getting his dad inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, and has destroyed his father’s massive collection of Polaroids and porn films. “There was no way I could identify him from one side,” Beck told the press. People talk, and it started getting in publications like the National Enquirer.”, The son maintains his father’s sexual proclivities never veered into dangerous territory. Vassall doubts vengeance for an infidelity was a motive. Bob also remained a regular guest on the talk show circuit, as well as a guest host for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962).In 1975 NBC gave Bob another shot at prime-time with The Bob Crane Show (1975). It's a fortunate thing to be in the right place at the right time. Carpenter’s attorney shot down speculation that a missing tripod could have been the murder weapon and reminded the jury that there was no proof of its existence. Our comedy is done with characterization. Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Col. Robert Hogan in Hogan's Heroes (1965). |  Why waste my time saying, ‘How dare you like ladies?’ That is dumb, would not think about it. “This is a comedy. Bob's specialty was the drums. Bob Crane married his second wife after meeting her on the set of the TV series. Other Works Crane’s first wife was his high school sweetheart, Anne Terzian. "I don't know if I can fix this, but I'm sure as hell gonna try." Official Sites. Dale Russell Gudegast’s Career. His marker is very elaborate and beautiful with writings and photographs of him and his widow. He was doing a very bad Disney movie called Superdad, playing an all-American character who cares about his daughter running off with some unsavory type, but at Disney studios in Burbank he’s on the set showing photographs of women that he’s been with to people on the crew. Gudegast is the aunt of Scott Crane who is an actor, music producer, and radio host. When I was a kid, I fell in love with Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous." In June, 1978 Bob took "Beginner's Luck" to Scottsdale, Arizona. |  Here are all 70 puppies competing in Puppy Bowl XVII, Spread the love with EW's Valentine's Day gift guide, ‘Hollywood Ripper’ who killed Ashton Kutcher’s friend and another woman has been convicted. James attended Jones Valley High School and graduated from the University of Alabama College of Engineering in 1959. 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. Use Caution and obey the spoiler signals!" Kick-Wham-Pow-Bob; Reception. “He says, ‘I am making changes. It was clear he had been in good shape and had salt-and-pepper hair, but gore obliterated most other details. The seamy side of Crane’s life is no mystery. Offers may be subject to change without notice. This was due to Crane's personality and humor. In 1966 and 1967 Bob was nominated for two Emmy awards - this would be the peak of his career.In 1971, after a six-year run, CBS inexplicably canceled "Hogan's Heroes" when management decided to take the entire network in a different direction. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. “To find out that the all-American Hogan has this…some people call it a dark side, but I don’t think of it as a dark side,” says Robert. Making matters even more bizarre, three of Heroes’ funny fascists — Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink), John Banner (Sergeant Schultz), and Leon Askin (General Burkhalter) — were Jews who survived the Holocaust, while Robert Clary (Corporal LeBeau) had been interned at Buchenwald and lost his parents at Auschwitz. He began to make guest appearances on such shows as The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) and The Twilight Zone (1959). A man who’d sought love in dangerous places suddenly had it, in abundance. We're just trying to show how darn clever the Americans were. It was in Scottsdale that the unthinkable happened. And by working hard, I mean doing the best job you possibly can. So when you look at it in the grand scheme of things, it’s just a small slice.”, It was a slice that mainstream Hollywood couldn’t tolerate. R.L. They married on the set of "Hogan's Heroes". His murder remains a mystery. 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. SpongeBob SquarePants (born on Monday, July 14th, 1986) isthe titular main protagonist of the popular Nickelodeon animated television franchise of the same name, he is the primary Fry Cook at the Krusty Krab. Shaffer of IGN gave this collection a 8 out of 10, saying that "This DVD presentation is outstanding, packed with a decent assortment of extras, a snazzy case and a pretty solid A/V presentation. “My dad loved women. The son of a Texaco Pipeline worker, Guy Bob … Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Anonymous. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Main characters. Before her death, Patricia Olson moved her husband’s body from its original resting place to another cemetery without telling Crane’s first family, then set up a memorial website with her son Scott that peddled some of Crane’s amateur pornos. It was during his reign as "King of the L.A. Airwaves" that Crane captured the attention of CBS television executives. camp. After learning the apartment was leased to the nearby Windmill Dinner Theatre, police asked the theater’s manager, Ed Beck, to identify the corpse. He became a drummer with the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra for about a year. “Vaughn, Goldstein, and I walked through the apartment, examining, touching, handling items in plain view of Vassall,” Robert wrote in his book. Still, Clary, the only living member of the cast, makes no apologies. Yet when it debuted on CBS in the fall of 1965, Hogan’s Heroes was an overnight hit. Simpson cases. They had three children - Robert David Crane Jr, Debbie, and Karen. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Fantasy Casting Agency - Hogan's Heroes Movie cast, Famous People Who Were Murdered or Assassinated. His poetry is noted for both its concision and emotional power. After failing to return home a few hours later, the children were labeled missing. Family photographs taken with his three children, Robert Jr., Debbie and Karen depict a doting father who truly loved his kids. Bob actually played the drums in the theme song at the beginning of the show. Publicity Listings His obsession with sex hurt his career and possibly got him killed. If there’s no divorce, she keeps what she gets, and if there’s no husband, she gets the whole thing.” Vassall and the other cops have never taken those accusations seriously. Work dried up for the middle-aged actor, who was soon getting by with gigs on the dinner-theater circuit. We talked to all the witnesses that we could possibly talk to, and we came up with what we came up with. When his agent sent Crane the script for Heroes, the actor mistook it for a drama. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the country to earn in excess of $100,000 per year (1960). She is also the sister-in-law of Bob Crane, an actor. He loves operettas, the likes of Gilbert and Sullivan, and is also known for his gigantic feet, which have gotten him into trouble on more than one occasion. He also appeared in the 1961 films, Return to Peyton Place (1961) and Man-Trap (1961). Following the end of "Hogan's Heroes" Bob continued to act. 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