Spoiler : Born in Vienna, Austria 9/18/1907; died 6/3/2005 at a hospital in Vienna, Austria. Neither city officials nor the Vienna hospital where he died disclosed the cause or date of his death. He was a cabaret artist in the 1930s before he fled to France, then to America to escape persecution by the Nazis. It has been reported he came to America in 1940 by other sources, Screen debut playing Franz in Assignment: Paris (1952). Last movie was in Vienna, titled Ene mene muh - und tot bist du (2001).

Spoiler : Television actor from the early 1950s to the middle 1980s. Pierre on The Charlie Farrell Show for CBS-TV (1956). Occasional role of German General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes for CBS-TV (1965-1971). Provided his voice for characters on the ABC-TV animated series, Scooby and Scrappy-Doo (1979). He returned to Vienna in 1994, returning to his roots in the cabaret, also taking parts in Vienna's Festwochen and the city's second opera, the Volksoper. He was decorated with Vienna's Gold Medal of Honor, onr of the most distinguished prizes the city offers.