VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Hollywood actor Leon Askin, whose film career spanned decades and included work in film, theatre and television, has died in a Vienna hospital, Austrian officials said Friday. The actor was 97 and his cause of death was not disclosed.
Askin appeared opposite such luminaries as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Peter Ustinov, but gained wide popularity with the character of Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the 1960s television comedy, Hogan's Heroes.
He appeared more than 50 films, including Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three and Austrian director Fritz Lang's Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse.
Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Askin worked as a cabaret artist in the 1930s before fleeing first to France and then to the United States to escape persecution by the Nazis. He served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War.
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