LEON ASKIN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 295699
Price: $200.00
LEON ASKIN
Shown as a Soviet general, in this small 4x7 photograph
Photograph signed (with German phrases): "Leon Askin the
citizen/great Vienna". B/w, 4x7.Austrian-born actor Leon
Askin (1907-2005), born Leo Ashkenasy, got his start in Viennese
theatre in the late 1920s and 1930s. However, like many German and Austrian
actors, he fled to the U. S. when Adolf Hitler came to power. He made his first
appearance on the New York stage in 1940 and his first TV appearance in 1950.
Again, like many Austrian and German actors, Askin was often cast as a
fascist, a Nazi or Communist (like the Soviet general shown here), despite the
fact that he fled from Hitler's Nazi Germany. Askin appeared in over 130
movies and TV shows between 1950 and 2001. His notable TV roles include
SS General Albert Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971) and
the voice of Fearless Leader on Rocky and His Friends (1959-1960).
Many of his movie appearances after World War II were in German movies, but
American audiences will probably recognize him from the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby
"Road" movie Road to Bali (1953), Danny Kaye's Knock On Wood
(1954), Billy Wilder's East German-meets-West-German comedy One. Two,
Three (1961), John Goldfarb Please Come Home (1964) and What Did
You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966). Signature lightly beaded but
legible. Fine condition.
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