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A distinctly different kind of dad: Son reveals the highly sexual life, death of Bob Crane
At a very early age, Scotty Crane knew a lot about sex. Even before he fully understood that his father, Bob Crane, had been a celebrated actor — star of the 1960s TV demonstrate "Hogan's Heroes" — he knew what naked women looked like.
Twenty-seven years later, Scotty, now a Seattle-based radio DJ (co-star of KQBZ's "Shaken, Not Stirred"), prefers to focus on other things learned from his dad. "My handwriting is identical to his," he says. "He taught me to play the drums. At the age of 4, he had me doing a tiny Scotty Crane radio exhibit, just like him."
Bob Crane, who acted on Seattle stages during the 1960s and 1970s and had a second home on Bainbridge Island, was murdered, likely, with a camera tripod in 1978 in an Arizona apartment. Soon stories about his intimate life began showing up in the press. Part of Scotty's inheritance were photos and videos his father had taken of himself and others — many others — having sex.
He's pored through all of it, culling what he believes best tells his father's story. With Bob Crane's killing still officially unsolved and two movies a
Nearly fifty years ago, sometime before dawn on Thursday, June 29, 1978, in Scottsdale, Arizona, Bob Crane was murdered.
The Hogan's Heroes celestial body went to hibernate just a limited hours before, wearing only a pair of boxer shorts, and exhausted from the events of the previous time. He had been starring in and directing his perform, Beginner's Luck, at the Windmill Dinner Theatre. After that evening's performance ended, he signed autographs in the theatre lobby. He loved his fans, and he enjoyed connecting with them.
Immediately tracking, he met up with John Henry Carpenter, a Sony rep who was more of a hanger-on than his so-called "best friend." For nearly a decade, Carpenter routinely traveled cross-country to meet up with Bob in various cities while Bob was performing in his play. The pair had one thing in common—they liked video equipment and having sex with women. Lots of women. Women from every trek of life, from the very, very rich, to those with barely two nickels to rub together. All of it was consensual. No force or drugs were committed. No money exchanged. The women who agreed to participate also often took part in Bob's amateur pornography. Again, all w
Recently, I watched some old reruns of an old classic comedy called Hogan’s Heroes, which aired from 1965 to 1971. The display developed a obeying during its authentic run. It seemed impossible to discover anything funny about a WWII German prison camp. However, Albert Ruddy and Bernard Fein managed to pull it off.
In addition to its great cast, Hogan’s Heroes also had great scripts. POW Colonel Robert Hogan was the main character while incompetent German soldiers Colonel Wilhelm Klink and Sergeant Hans Schultz ran the prison camp. Prior to Hogan’s Heroes, Bob Crane was a relatively unknown actor. As skillfully as being an accomplished drummer, he was a trendy radio broadcaster. He was once called the “king of the Los Angeles airwaves.”
Crane became a household name during his time on Hogan’s Heroes. He had an affair with his co-star Patricia Olson (AKA Sigrid Valdis), who played Hilda, Klink’s secretary. Crane divorced his childhood sweetheart and married Olson.
Hogan’s Heroes co-star Richard Dawson introduced Crane to Sony Electronics’ video expert John Henry Carpenter. He was the guy celebrities went to for quality video equipment
The Private Passions of Bob Crane
Oct. 18 -- Back in the 1960s — long before his name would be linked to sex addiction, X-rated videotapes, and a still-unsolved murder — Bob Crane, the star of the popular sitcom Hogan's Heroes, seemed like the ideal leading dude — handsome, clean-cut, likable.
As Col. Hogan, the wise-cracking public figure of a ragtag group of Allied soldiers plotting subterfuge during World War II from inside a Nazi POW camp, Crane made Hogan's Heroes one of the decade's best-loved and highest-rated comedies … and remained well-liked on and off the set.
"Bob was a very charming man," says Robert Clary, who played French POW Louis LeBeau. "He was easy to get along with — he never acted like, 'I'm making much more money than you do, and you better listen to what I'm saying.' That was wonderful."
His daughter Karen Crane recalls Bob as an ideal father. "My dad was an absolute usual family man at home," she says. "He was always swimming with us, playing with us. I just have wonderful memories of my dad and my years growing up."
Few suspected that beneath Bob Crane's glib exterior lay