- Howard Caine
infobox actor
birthdate=birth date|1928|1|2
birthplace=city-state|Nashville|Tennessee
deathdate=death date and age|1993|12|28|1928|1|2
deathplace=city-state|North Hollywood|California
occupation=Film ,television actor sHoward Cohen (
January 2 ,1928 –December 28 ,1993 ), who performed as Howard Caine, was a popular character actor, probably best known asGestapo agent Major Hochstetter in the television series "Hogan's Heroes ".Caine was born in
Nashville ,Tennessee but moved to New York at age thirteen. It was there that he began to study acting. He was able to lose his Southern accent, and mastered many foreign and regional dialects. He served inWorld War II , joining theUnited States Navy fighting the Japanese in Pacific theater. After the war, he studied drama atColumbia University .He was in several Broadway shows, and had many film and television appearances, including a turn as
Charles Manson 's attorneyIrving Kanarek (called "Everett Scoville" for the production) in the 1976 TV movie "Helter Skelter".At the age of 13 Howard Caine (family name Cohen) moved with his family from his hometown of Nashville, TN, to New York City, where he began studying acting. Learning to erase his Southern accent, he went on to became a master of 32 foreign and American dialects. After service in the Navy during WWII, Caine continued his studies at The School of Drama, Columbia University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He was featured on Broadway in "Wonderful Town", "Inherit the Wind" "Lunatics and Lovers" and "Tiger at the Gates". He replaced Ray Walston as "Mr. Applegate", the star of Broadway's "Damn Yankees". He was featured in such films as From the Terrace (1960), Pay or Die (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), Pressure Point (1962) and Alvarez Kelly (1966). He co-starred with Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons in Watermelon Man (1970) and played Lewis Morris of New York in 1776 (1972). He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.
He acted in over 750 live and filmed TV shows, but is perhaps best remembered as Gestapo Maj. Hochstetter on the classic "Hogan's Heroes" (1965). He was featured as Everett Scovill, a thinly disguised portrait of Charles Manson's attorney Irving Kanarek, on the CBS two-part TV Movie of the Week Helter Skelter (1976) (TV). He had always been fascinated with the Appalachian five-string banjo, and began mastering it in the mid-'60s. Since the summer of 1970 until his untimely death in 1993, he had taken trophies at 29 prominent banjo and fiddle contests in the Southland for both Best Traditional Banjo and Traditional Singing. He was also a popular folk singer and appeared at a number of prominent folk clubs and folk festivals.
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