John Banner

Most people, myself included, remember John Banner as the bumbling Sergeant Schultz of Hogan's Heroes, forever insisting "I see nothing!" It is a flawless piece of comic timing. But I can never discuss him without the context that gives that role its strange power: an Austrian-born Jew who left Europe after the Nazi annexation and rebuilt his life in America, then made a career, of all things, playing a German soldier for laughs. There is a quiet courage and generosity in that choice. Born in 1910 and gone, eerily, on his own birthday in 1973, Banner carried a real weight of history beneath all that warmth, and I never forget it.

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Name (English)

John Banner

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・バナー

Reading

じょん・ばなー

Born

January 28, 1910 – January 28, 1973

Origin

Vienna, Austria

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Banner
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85154

Tags

• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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