Entertainment & Arts
KTTV did a poor job of showing “Stalag 17” last month.
April 22, 1990
Obituaries
Richard Erdman, a wisecracking character actor who appeared in more than 175 film and television productions, including as a barracks chief in “Stalag 17,” a time-stopping boor in “The Twilight Zone” and an elderly college student on the more recent sitcom “Community,” has died at an assisted-living facility in Los Angeles.
March 18, 2019
“Stalag 17” is exactly the kind of play that only “the good war”--as Studs Terkel termed World War II--could produce.
March 19, 1994
Movies
Actor Neville Brand, a real-life war hero who made a film career out of playing tough guys in such movies as “Stalag 17” and “Birdman of Alcatraz,” has died of emphysema.
April 18, 1992
Afterword
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March 14, 2010
From “Stalag 17” through “The Great Escape,” prisoner-of-war movies set in German camps during World War II were a lot simpler back then.
Feb. 15, 2002
Television
Allan Melvin, a popular character actor who played Cpl.
Jan. 19, 2008
Don Taylor, actor best known for war films of the 1940s and 1950s, including “Stalag 17,” and director of such science fiction favorites as “Escape From the Planet of the Apes,” has died.
Dec. 31, 1998
The actor, recently honored at the Ojai Film Festival and with a new star on the Walk of Fame, has been acting in Hollywood for 60 years.
March 7, 2014
Peter Graves succeeds in an impossible mission
Dec. 30, 2009