# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-askin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:17.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-askin"
name: "Leon Askin"
slug: "leon-askin"
description: "Leon Askin was an Austrian actor best known in North America for portraying the character General Burkhalter on the TV situation comedy Hogan's Heroes. From the 1950s onward he had a steady career on both sides of the Atlantic."
tagline: "Actor (1907–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leon_Askin_2001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-09-18"
deathDate: "2005-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8483124272597957
  historical:           11.03533733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039169/"
    handle:    "nm0039169"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.askin.at/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليون اسكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin"
    title: "Leon Askin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin"
    title: "Leon Askin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin"
    title: "Leon Askin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin"
    title: "Leon Askin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "لئون آسکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin"
    title: "Leon Askin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin"
    title: "Leon Askin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%98%A8_%EC%95%84%EC%8A%A4%ED%82%A8"
    title: "레온 아스킨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Askin"
    title: "Leon Askin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85174"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5795"
    title: "Leon Askin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump