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John Banner (28 January 1910 – 28 January 1973), born Johann Banner, was an Austrian film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Master Sergeant 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!" (or, more commonly as the series went on, "I see nothing, nothing!").
Banner was born to Jewish parents in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He studied for a law degree at the University of Vienna, but decided instead to become an actor. In 1938, when he was performing with an acting troupe in Switzerland, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Nazi Germany. Banner emigrated to the United States, where he rapidly picked up English.
In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, underwent basic training in Atlantic City and became a supply sergeant. He even posed for a recruiting poster (see external link below for a photo of him posing). He served until 1945.
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John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning over six decades, Williams has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and the first three Harry Potter films. He has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all save five of Spielberg's feature films.
Other notable works by Williams include theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, the 2011 Tintin movie, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the original, not-as-well-known, calypso-based theme song to Gilligan's Island. He has composed numerous classical concerti and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments, and he served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor (1980–93), and is now the orchestra's laureate conductor.
Bob Crane and John Banner on The Red Skelton Hour / 1967
John Banner (Sgt. Schultz, Hogan's Heroes) pitching for TWA Airlines
Bob Crane Pays Tribute to 'Hogan's Heroes' Co-Star John Banner over KMPC Radio ~ Febrary 9, 1973
John Banner - Feldwebel Schulz spricht deutsch
John Banner Headstone
Rendezvous 24 1946 - William Gargan, Maria Palmer, John Banner, John Dehner, Art Gilmore
John Banner
John Williams conducts new arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
I See Nothing - Sgt Schultz
Sheshoman Ft John banner - Deja de llorar
Actors: Olivia Saint (actress), Maria Bello (actress), Maria Bello (actress), Michael McKean (actor), John Kapelos (actor), Maria Bello (actress), Gary Sievers (actor), Joe Grifasi (actor), Greg Kinnear (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), Ed Begley Jr. (actor), Don McManus (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), James Schamus (producer), Rita Wilson (actress),
Plot: In 1965, 'Bob Crane (I)' (qv), who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called _"Hogan's Heroes" (1965)_ (qv), a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his extramarital sex partners. His sex addiction was somewhat known but ignored by his high school sweetheart/first wife Anne Crane née Terzian, but well known by his second wife, Patti Olson, better known as 'Sigrid Valdis' (qv), his Hogan's Heroes co-star. Especially after the end of Hogan's Heroes in 1971, this incongruence and his friendship with Carpenter, with who he would have a continuing love/hate relationship, would contribute to both his professional and personal downfall.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, actor, adult-video, adultery, airport, amateur-porn, amateur-pornography, animated-credits, anonymous-sexActors: Malcolm Atterbury (actor), Malcolm Atterbury (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Eddie Baker (actor), Whit Bissell (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Fred Coby (actor), John Doucette (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Linda Darnell (actress), Eva Novak (actress), Dorothy Vernon (actress), R. Dale Butts (composer), Adele Palmer (costume designer),
Plot: A number of people are waiting for the stage to Laramie. Some are anxious to get there and are willing to bribe the stationmaster for tickets on the sold-out run. When the stage arrives bristling with Cheyenne arrows in it (as well as in the passengers), space becomes available and some brave souls set out on the coach. Attacked by Indians, the horses run off, the coach is burned and the survivors take refuge in a dry gully. One by one the Indians and the passengers pick each other off, until thirst and exhaustion take their toll on the three people left.
Keywords: horse, native-american, racism, senator, stagecoach, state-name-in-title, trucolor