'Hogan's Heroes' Actress Valdis Dies

'Hogan's Heroes' Actress Valdis Dies

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The actress who played Col. Klink's sexy blond secretary Hilda on "Hogan's Heroes" and married the show's star, Bob Crane, has died. She was 72.

Patricia Crane died on Oct. 14, a spokeswoman for the Orange County coroner's office confirmed Monday. On stage, Crane was known as Sigrid Valdis.

Crane died of lung cancer at her daughter Ana Sarmiento's home, her son said.

"One of her last wishes in her will was that the funeral have no press, so we didn't contact the press (when she died), to honor her wishes," son Scotty Crane told the Los Angeles Times.

Crane played Hilda for five seasons on "Hogan's Heroes," the 1965-71 CBS situation comedy about Allied prisoners in a World War II German POW camp. Hilda and Bob Crane's Col. Hogan flirted playfully in front of the screen, but in 1970 were married for real — on the show's set.

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that lunatic Crane's 'home movies'.

I remember him for a season or two on The Donna Reed Show. Smarmy S.O.B.

Bob Crane was a lunatic? Really?

Is that based on a reference to a professional diagnosis you are privy to or is it just an opinion based on rumor and innuendo?

Crane might have been a number of things, but "lunatic" is not a word i have ever thought to use to describe the man.

is how I would describe him. x(

Regardless of how one feels about how Mr. Crane conducted his personal life, i merely took issue with the characterization of him being called a lunatic. It is unfair and apparently grossly inaccurate.

OK...have you ever read the particulars ofwhat he did to trusting individuals, particularly women? He was one of the most disturbed people in a whole industry of disturbed people. There are many mental health issues, as you would put it, which compromised his career, his marriage, and the lives of many around him. He was a sociopath. Read the book, and then come back here and tell me that he was merely sleazy.

It's sad I'm reaching the age where all the celebs that were always there are all slowly dying off, like Norman Mailer last week and Kurt Vonnegut.

Sadly, we're very lucky to have people like Walter Cronkite and Andy Rooney still around.

Like Ken Burns recently said, we're losing WW2 vets at the rate of a thousand per week or something!

I remember as a kid being in fear of someday life without Walt Disney!

-85% Jimmy