Another great character actor has died. You might think of Leon Askin as being to Nazi officers what Fritz Feld was to maître d's, what Parley Baer was to small town mayors, what Jack Norton was to drunks, what Mary Wickes was to sharp-tongued housekeepers, what Eddie Deezen is to nerds, etc. Most folks probably remember Mr. Askin for his role as General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes but he actually played a wide range of non-Kraut roles in his long, illustrious career on stage and screen. A few years ago, I chanced across his website and found his bio fascinating. Now that he's passed away in his native Austria at age 97, the website will probably go away. Before it does, you might want to read up on Leon Askin, an actor who could do a lot more than threaten to send Colonel Klink to the Russian Front.