John Banner Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family (2024)

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John Banner was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, on 28 January 1910. He was the son of a Jewish family. He attended the University of Vienna, where he studied law and economics. After graduating, he worked as a lawyer in Vienna until the outbreak of World War II.In 1939, Banner fled to the United States, where he worked as a waiter and a cab driver. He eventually found his way to Hollywood, where he began his acting career. He made his film debut in 1942 in the film "The Moon Is Down".Throughout his career, Banner appeared in numerous films and television shows, including "The Twilight Zone", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "The Untouchables", and "Hogan's Heroes". He also appeared in the films "The Great Escape" and "The Dirty Dozen".Banner was married twice, first to actress Gisela Fischer and then to actress and singer Lotte Palfi. He had two children with Fischer and one with Palfi.John Banner died on January 28, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 63. His net worth at the time of his death was estimated to be around $2 million.

Popular AsJohann Banner
Occupationactor,soundtrack
Age63 years old
Zodiac SignAquarius
Born28 January, 1910
Birthday28 January
BirthplaceStanislau, Austria-Hungary
Date of deathJanuary 28, 1973
Died PlaceVienna, Austria
NationalityUkraine

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John Banner Height, Weight & Measurements

At 63 years old, John Banner height is 6′ 1″ .

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Who Is John Banner's Wife?

His wife is Christine

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John Banner Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is John Banner worth at the age of 63 years old? John Banner’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from Ukraine. We have estimatedJohn Banner's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023$1 Million - $5 Million
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1971

The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971), which was set during the Prohibition era. Banner's "Uncle Latzi" was a close cousin of Schultz, but lightning did not strike twice and the series was canceled only after 13 episodes in a three month season.

1968

"Banner and Werner Klemperer (who portrayed the equally comical and bumbling "Colonel Klink", and who, like Banner, was a Jewish refugee who had escaped Hitler's reach), co-starred with the series' leading actor, Bob Crane, in The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968), a bizarre movie "comedy" about a defecting East German athlete. The picture bombed and the trio went back to turning out the highly popular series without losing too much pride or momentum.

In 1965, Bing Crosby Productions cast Banner as "Sergeant Schultz", in the wartime comedy sitcom, Hogan's Heroes (1965).

The show debuted on Friday evening, September 17th, 1965, on CBS channels.

After the cancellation of Hogan's Heroes (1965) in 1971, Banner was signed for another TV show set in the past.

1964

He specialized in foreign-official types, such the his role as Soviet Ambassador in Fred MacMurray's comedy movie, Kisses for My President (1964).

1963

Passed away in his native Vienna on his 63rd birthday, six days after the death of former President Lyndon Johnson.

1959

In The Untouchables (1959) episode The Untouchables: Takeover (1962), Banner is pumped for information and says "I know nothing." Six years later, he made the line famous as Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes (1965).

1957

On February 2, 1973, John Banner was interred at Mauer Cemetery, Vienna, plot no. 57/2/26.

1953

The series was a take-off on Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953), but with much more humor and less drama. The bumbling Dutch uncle who Banner portrayed was a continent apart from the wickedly evil Nazis he had portrayed during World War II. Spectacularly inept as a guard of Allied prisoners of war, Sergeant Schultz was prone to ignoring the irregularities that transpired in the fictional Stalag 13, bellowing firmly, "I know nothing! I see nothing! Nothing!!!"John Banner enjoyed the role but demurred when accused of portraying a "cuddly" Nazi. He told TV Guide, "I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in every generation.

1940

His accent and "Nordic" look ironically meant that Banner was typecast in several films as Nazis during the 1940s. He survived the war portraying the same villains who were murdering every member of his family, who had been left behind in Austria. All of them perished in concentration camps; his biological parents and all of his siblings perished. At the time of his emigration to the US, John Banner weighed a trim 180 pounds. He eventually added another 100 pounds to become the chubby character actor that America would come to know and love in regular appearances in movies and on TV.

1938

In 1938, the 28-year-old Banner, who was Jewish, was forced to flee from his homeland to avoid being captured after the Anschluss (union) between Nazi Germany and Austria. This occurred while he was engaged in a tour of Switzerland with an acting company. Unable to return to Austria due to Hitler's anti-Semitic policies of persecution, Banner emigrated to the United States as a political refugee. Soon after reaching the United States of America, John Banner, who knew nothing of the English language, was hired to emcee a musical revue. He had to learn his lines phonetically. The total immersion paid off in that he rapidly picked up English.

1910

John Banner, who achieved television immortality for his portrayal of the Luftwaffe POW camp guard Sergeant Schultz in the TV series Hogan's Heroes (1965), was born on Tuesday, January 28th, 1910 in Vienna. Vienna was then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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