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Bob Crane

Born Robert Edward Crane
July 13, 1928(1928-07-13)
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
Died June 28, 1978 (aged 49)
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Years active 1950-1978
Spouse(s) Anne Terzian (1949-1970)
Sigrid Valdis (1970-1978)
Official website


Robert Edward Crane (July 13, 1928 – June 28, 1978) was an American disc jockey and Emmy Award-nominated actor, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Scottsdale ( O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ; Yaqui Eskatel) is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Sigrid Valdis, born Patricia Annette Olson ( September 21, 1935 &ndash October 14, 2007) was an American Actress Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971, and for his violent and unsolved death. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Hogan's Heroes is a American Television Situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4 Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.

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Early life

Crane was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. He dropped out of high school [1]in 1946 and became a drummer, performing with dance bands and a symphony orchestra. In 1949, he married high school sweetheart Anne Terzian; they eventually had three children, Deborah Ann, Karen Leslie, and Robert David (known as "Bob, Jr. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "). He later divorced and remarried, producing another son, Robert Scott Crane.

Early career

In 1950, Crane started his broadcasting career at WLEA in Hornell, New York. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. WLEA (1480 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a combined Talk radio and Oldies format Hornell is a City in Steuben County, New York, United States. He quickly moved to WBIS in Bristol, Connecticut, followed by WICC in Bridgeport, Connecticut. WPRX (1120 AM) is a Radio station licensed to serve Bristol Connecticut. Bristol is a city located in Hartford County Connecticut, USA, 20 miles (32 km southwest of Hartford WICC-AM 600 is a news and information radio station in Bridgeport Connecticut, owned by Cumulus Media. This was a 500-watt operation where he remained until 1956, when the CBS radio network plucked Crane out to help stop his huge popularity from affecting their own station's ratings. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Crane moved his family to California to host the morning show at KNX AM radio in Hollywood. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He filled the broadcast with sly wit, drumming, and guests such as Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Bob Hope. Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1 1926 &ndash August 5 1962 baptized Norma Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12 1915 &ndash May 14 1998 was an American singer and actor Bob Hope, KBE KCSG ( May 29, 1903 &ndash July 27, 2003) was an American comedian and actor who appeared in It quickly became the number-one rated morning show in the LA area, with Crane known as "The King of the Los Angeles Airwaves. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West "

Crane's acting ambitions led to his subbing for Johnny Carson on the daytime game show Who Do You Trust? and appearances on The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and General Electric Theater. John William “Johnny” Carson ( October 23, 1925 &ndash January 23, 2005) was an American Television host and Who Do You Trust? was a fairly popular Game show during the 1950s and 1960s emceed by Johnny Carson. The Twilight Zone is an American Television series created by Rod Serling. Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an Anthology Television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. General Electric Theater is an American Anthology series that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. When Carl Reiner appeared on his show, Crane persuaded him to book him for a guest shot on The Dick Van Dyke Show, where he was noticed by Donna Reed, who suggested him for the role of neighbor Dr. Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American Actor, Film director, producer, Writer and Comedian The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television Situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to Donna Reed ( January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an Academy Award -winning American actress. Dave Kelsey in her eponymous sitcom from 1963 through 1965. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar.

Hogan's Heroes

In 1965, Crane was offered the starring role in a television comedy pilot about a German P.O.W. camp. Hogan's Heroes became a hit and finished in the Top Ten in its first year on the air. Hogan's Heroes is a American Television Situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4 The series lasted six seasons, and Crane was nominated for an Emmy Award twice, in 1966 and 1967. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. During its run, he met Patricia Olsen who played Hilda under the stage name Sigrid Valdis. Sigrid Valdis, born Patricia Annette Olson ( September 21, 1935 &ndash October 14, 2007) was an American Actress He divorced his wife of twenty years and married Olsen on the set of the show in 1970. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. They had a son, Scotty (Robert Scott), and adopted a daughter named Ana Marie.

Crane's drumming ability can be seen in the sixth season episode, "Look at the Pretty Snowflakes," where he has an extended drum solo during the prisoners' performance of the jazz standard "Cherokee". A jazz standard is a Jazz tune that is held in continuing esteem and which is widely known performed and recorded among jazz musicians as part of the jazz musical repertoire Ray Noble ( December 17, 1903 &ndash April 3, 1978) was a British Bandleader, Composer, arranger and Actor

In 1968, during the run of "Heroes", Crane, Werner Klemperer, Leon Askin and John Banner appeared, with Elke Sommer, in a movie called "The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz". Werner Klemperer ( March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an Emmy Award -winning comedic actor best known for his role as Colonel Leon Askin ( September 18, 1907 – June 3, 2005) was an Austrian Actor. John Banner ( January 28, 1910 &ndash January 28, 1973) was a Jewish Austrian Actor. Elke Sommer (born 5 November, 1940) born Elke Schletz, is a German -born actress, Entertainer, and Artist. The setting was the divided city of Berlin inside East Germany. Paula Schultz was being tempted to defect to the West, with Crane encouraging her to do so, but also having fun with other women. Klemperer and Banner were involved as East German officials trying to keep Paula in the East.

Decline and fall

Following the cancellation of Hogan's Heroes in 1971, Crane continued to act, appearing in two Disney films, Superdad with the title role and Gus in a cameo role, and a number of TV shows, including Police Woman, Quincy, M.E., and The Love Boat. Superdad ( 1974) is a live-action Film by Walt Disney Productions starring Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Barbara Rush Gus is a 1976 film by Walt Disney Productions. Its center character is Gus a football-playing mule Police Woman was an American Television police Drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from September 13, 1974 Quincy ME (or simply Quincy) is the name of a United States Television series from Universal Studios that aired from October The Love Boat (simply Love Boat in its final season is an American Television series set on a Cruise ship, which A second series of his own, 1975's The Bob Crane Show, was cancelled by NBC after three months.

During the run of Hogan's Heroes, sitcom costar Richard Dawson introduced Crane to John Carpenter, an electronics expert who sold VCRs. Richard Dawson aka 'The Kissing Bandit'(born November 20, 1932) is a British - American Actor, Comedian, Game show John Henry Carpenter (1928 was accused of Crane's 1978 murder PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS IS A GENERAL ARTICLE ABOUT VCRs/VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS Crane was a photography enthusiast. [1]

Carpenter supplied early versions of video technology, and he'd often participate in group sex with the women that Crane would meet.

On a late night in 1978, Crane allegedly called Carpenter to tell him that their friendship was over. The following day, Crane was discovered violently bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never found (but was believed to be a camera tripod) at the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona. Scottsdale ( O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ; Yaqui Eskatel) is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, Crane had been appearing in Scottsdale in a production of a play titled Beginner's Luck at the Windmill Dinner Theatre.

According to an episode of A&E's Cold Case Files, police officers who arrived at the scene of the crime noted that Carpenter called the apartment several times and didn't seem surprised that the police were there. A&E is a cable and Satellite television network with headquarters in Manhattan and offices in Stamford, Atlanta, Cold Case Files is a 1999 —present documentary Television series on the cable channel A&E Network hosted by Bill This immediately raised suspicion, and the car Carpenter had rented the previous day was impounded by the police. In it several blood smears were found that matched Crane's blood type. A blood type (also called a blood group) is a classification of Blood based on the presence or absence of inherited Antigenic substances on the At that time DNA testing didn't exist to confirm if it was Crane's or not. Due to a lack of sufficient evidence, the district attorney declined to file charges and the case went cold.

In 1992, fourteen years after the murder, the case was reopened. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) An attempt to test the blood found in the car Carpenter rented failed to produce any result due to improper preservation of the evidence. The detective in charge instead hoped a picture of what appeared to be a piece of subcutaneous tissue (brain tissue) found in the rental car[2] (which had been lost since the original investigation) would incriminate Carpenter. The subcutaneous tissue or subcutis is the layer of Loose connective tissue directly underlying the Dermis. He was arrested and indicted. During Carpenter's trial in 1994, the prosecution showed a videotape of Crane and Carpenter engaging in sex with the same woman to demonstrate their close relationship. However, Carpenter was acquitted on a lack of convincing evidence. Both the murder and the motive remain officially unsolved. Carpenter maintained his innocence until his death on September 4, 1998.

Biographical film

Crane's life and murder were the subject of the 2002 film Auto Focus, directed by Paul Schrader and starring Greg Kinnear as Crane. Auto Focus is a 2002 American Biographical film directed by Paul Schrader. Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids Michigan) is an American Screenwriter and Film director Gregory Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an Academy Award -nominated American Actor and Television personality, who The film portrays Crane as a happily married, churchgoing family man and popular L. A. disc jockey who suddenly becomes a Hollywood celebrity, and just as rapidly becomes a sex addict, hanging out at strip clubs and participating in orgies. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience He documents his exploits on video tape, and is compelled by his addiction into ever more salacious excesses, which eventually crowd everything else out of his life: marriage, family, non-sexual friends, career.

Crane's second wife and their son Scotty objected to the way Crane was portrayed in the film, and took to the media to present their side of the story. Shortly before the film's release, Scotty also started the website www.bobcrane.com to provide documents and testimony that would contest the movie's version of his father's story. The website notably featured clips from a pornographic home film loop Bob Crane had made in 1956, before his meeting with Carpenter. (Scotty later removed the pornographic clips from the site. )

In an interview posted to the site, Scotty stated, "My father had been having extramarital affairs and photographing hundreds of nude women engaged in sexual activity since the 1940s. He did not suddenly become a 'sex addict' when he met my mother. Sexual addiction is a controversial term to describe sexual behaviour that is characterized at least by two key features recurrent failure to control the behavior and continuation of the We have amateur home erotic movies of his that date back to 1956, and I can assure you that the women in those movies were not his wife at the time. [. . . ]

"My father did attend church—when people died. He wasn't religious and he didn't raise me to be religious. The whole mythology about him being this church-going saint that was brought down and corrupted by the evils of Hollywood—is really just a dramatic way to dress up a story. But it's totally untrue. He was an overly sexual person from an early age. In the twelve years that my mom knew him, he went to church three times: my baptism, his father's funeral and his own funeral. He never had a family priest for a ‘buddy’ as Auto Focus depicts". [3]

In pop culture

Filmography

Television

Award nominations

Emmy Award

See also

References

  1. ^ Crane, Robert Scott. Return to Peyton Place is a 1959 novel by Grace Metalious. After the phenomenal success of her first novel the blockbuster hit Peyton Place Man-Trap is a 1961 Drama film about a Korean War veteran who becomes involved in a scheme to steal $3 Superdad ( 1974) is a live-action Film by Walt Disney Productions starring Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Barbara Rush Gus is a 1976 film by Walt Disney Productions. Its center character is Gus a football-playing mule The Twilight Zone is an American Television Anthology series created by Rod Serling. General Electric Theater is an American Anthology series that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television Situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an Anthology Television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom which aired on ABC from 1958 to 1966. The Smothers Brothers are an American music-and- Comedy team consisting of the brothers Tom ("Tommy" and Dick Smothers. Hogan's Heroes is a American Television Situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4 Night Gallery is Rod Serling 's follow-up series to The Twilight Zone that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973 Love American Style is an hour-long television Anthology which was produced by Paramount Television and originally aired between September The Delphi Bureau was a Dramatic Television series aired in the United States by ABC as one of three elements of The Tenafly is a drama series and one of the TV shows for the NBC Mystery Movie for the 1973-74 season Police Woman was an American Television police Drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from September 13, 1974 Ellery Queen was an American Television mystery series that ran for one season from 1975 to 1976 on NBC. Quincy ME (or simply Quincy) is the name of a United States Television series from Universal Studios that aired from October The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (retitled The Hardy Boys Mysteries for season three is a television series which aired for three seasons The Love Boat (simply Love Boat in its final season is an American Television series set on a Cruise ship, which Hogan's Heroes is a American Television Situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4 Interview with Scotty Crane.
  2. ^ "How did Bob Crane die, anyway?" from The Straight Dope
  3. ^ Crane, Robert Scott. The Straight Dope is a popular question-and-answer Newspaper column published in the Chicago Reader, syndicated in thirty Newspapers Interview with Scotty Crane.

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Persondata
NAME Crane, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crane, Robert Edward
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actor, disc jockey
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1978
PLACE OF DEATH Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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