The actor played French Corporal Louis LeBeau on the World War IIset sitcom.
“Robert’s passing is incredibly sad,” Martin said in a statement.
He was one of my most favorite people I represented.
‘Hogan’s Heroes’ star Robert Clary has died at 96.Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Now he can once again be reunited with Natalie the love of his life."
Clary’s wife, Natalie Cantor Metzger, died in 1997.
Kim Wright, Clary’s granddaughter, first confirmed the news toThe Hollywood Reporter.
Robert Clary as Corporal Louis LeBeau in ‘Hogan’s Heroes’.CBS via Getty Images
A cause of death was not provided.
Louis LeBeau, a French gourmet chef who trained the guard dogs to be friendly towards the prisoners.
Clary was born Robert Max Widerman in Paris on March 1, 1926.
Clary spoke withTHRin 2015 about this experience.
“Our lives changed when the Germans occupied France,” he said.
“It was like night and day.
The only thing we did not know was [the] extermination camps.”
Clary’s parents were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
Clary shared his mother’s last words: “My mother said the most remarkable thing.
She said, ‘Behave.’
She probably knew me as a brat.
She said, ‘Behave.
Do what they tell you to do.'”
Clary said entertainment saved him.
He began performing on stage at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was sent after Auschwitz.
He vowed to be an entertainer, and his dream became a reality after Buchenwald was liberated in 1945.
Clary was incarcerated for 31 months.
The future Hollywood star recorded his first songs in France in 1948.
He moved to the U.S. a year later to make music for Capitol Records.
