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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Ivan Dixon, best known for his role as Staff Sgt. James Kinchloe on the '60s television classic, "Hogan Heroes," has died. He was 76. His daughter said Dixon died Sunday at a hospital in Charlotte after a hemorrhage and of complications from kidney failure. In addition to acting, Dixon directed hundreds of episodes of television shows, including "The Waltons," "The Rockford Files," "Magnum, P.I." and "In the Heat of the Night." Dixon's acting credits predate "Hogan Heroes." He was a stunt double for Sidney Poitier in the 1958 movie "The Defiant Ones." Poitier said in a statement...

Actor, director and producer Ivan Dixon, best known for his role as Kinchloe in the television series "Hogan's Heroes," has died in Charlotte at the age of 76. Dixon died Sunday at a Charlotte hospital after suffering a hemorrhage, said Whitney Stauffer of Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles. Actor Sidney Poitier said the two men became friends after Dixon was his stunt double in the 1958 movie, "The Defiant Ones." "As an actor, you had to be careful," Poitier said through Stauffer. "He was quite likely to walk off with the scene. And I was very careful." Dixon began...

COLONELS Klink and Hogan and Sgt Schultz of the sitcom Hogan's Heroes have done real PoWs of the Nazis no favours, a federal minister says. (Australian) Veterans' Affairs Minister Bruce Billson said that thanks to Hollywood, those in German and Italian prison camps in World War II were wrongly perceived by many as having had a fairly easy time. Mr Billson, 40, said after launching this year's Weary Dunlop Medical Research appeal that he watched repeats of Hogan's Heroes as a child. But he had a totally different view as he now considered whether European PoWs should be given a...

<p>ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns Italy's largest private television network, said yesterday that his controversial Nazi jibe at a German politician had been inspired by the 1960s comedy ''Hogan's Heroes.''</p> <p>Berlusconi set off a diplomatic storm in the European Parliament on Wednesday when he told Martin Schulz, a parliamentarian who had criticized him, that he would be perfect playing a concentration camp guard in a film.</p>

Had Bob Crane not been a sex addict, had he not been bludgeoned to death with his own tripod in an Arizona condo surrounded by an elaborate array of video equipment, had he not photographed hundreds of women naked in twosomes and threesomes and orgies and had his murder not gone unsolved, he would not be the subject of a new feature film. He would be remembered, if he was remembered at all, as the star of ''Hogan's Heroes,'' a hit CBS comedy that ran from 1965 to 1971 and was set in a P.O.W. camp during World War II....