Movies
Paul Schrader’s film on Bob Crane portrays the late ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ actor as a prisoner of his peccadilloes
Sept. 29, 2002
California
Bob Crane, 79, a real estate broker who worked to preserve Los Angeles landmarks, died June 27 in Key West, Fla., after a three-year battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
July 5, 2006
Paul Schrader, who brands Bob Crane an unsavory “creep” (“Into the Deep End,” Sept. 29), has, obviously, directed “Auto Focus” as a film even more inexcusable than the “Hogan’s Heroes” sitcom.
Oct. 13, 2002
In “Auto Focus,” the strangely wonderful and weirdly touching new film from Paul Schrader, the comedy and the tragedy keep getting mixed up.
Oct. 18, 2002
Nearly 14 years after “Hogan’s Heroes” star Bob Crane was bludgeoned to death in Arizona, authorities there on Monday announced the arrest of a longtime suspect in the case, which has frustrated investigators and fueled lurid speculation.
June 2, 1992
Television
One of show business’s most provocative murder mysteries took a new twist Monday when a longtime suspect was arrested nearly 14 years after “Hogan’s Heroes” star Bob Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, Ariz., apartment.
The man accused of the 1978 murder of “Hogan’s Heroes” television star Bob Crane has pleaded innocent in Long Beach to unrelated child molestation charges.
July 26, 1992
A friend of actor Bob Crane who shared the TV actor’s sexual conquests was acquitted Monday by a jury in Arizona in the 1978 bludgeon murder of the “Hogan’s Heroes” star.
Nov. 1, 1994
A crane loading a 12,000-pound concrete freeway barrier onto a flatbed truck toppled just off the San Diego Freeway on Thursday morning, crushing the truck driver as he waited at the wheel, authorities said.
Jan. 19, 1990
Business
The property management subsidiary of Northbrook, Ill.
April 10, 1998