- He lived on a truck farm behind the studio when Atalanta was burnt for "Gone With The Wind.".
- He spoke German and Gallic before he spoke English as a child.Today he still has to be careful not to slip into either the German or Irish accents when he is speaking.
- Because of his white hair,German looks, name and the fact he spoke fluent German although he did other things in his career he was type cast as a German forever in all speaking parts.
- Because of his looks and accent never appeared in any war movie that took place in Asia.
- From age 6 till his early 20s, he did voices in cartoons that required accents.
- While other kids wanted to be cowboys he grew up listening to the Lone Ranger on the radio and wanted to be Tonto on the screen one day because his mother and grandparents were Osage Indians.
- He only ever worked with his grandmother once in-front of the camera. This was the film "The 10 Commandments. She played a old Hebrew woman, who he was pulling the cart for. What made the scene unique other then being a grandmother and grandson scene was that both were blond haired and had to wear heavy head covering to hid the fact.
- He actually played his grandfather and father in two different WW-2 films. In "The Longest Day" he portrayed his grandfather a German staff officer. In "To Hell and Back" he played his father a American Tank Officer. And in "Battleground" which took place during the battle of the Bulge which was the only time in the war the two men were on the same battlefield he played a German Soldier.
- As he grew older and looked more like his grandfather he found himself often cast in historical WW-2 films and Television shows playing his grandfather Otto Von Hohenzollern a German Staff officer during he war.
- Attended Cannes Film Festival 2015.
- Attended Cannes Film Festival May 2014,May 2015,and May 2016.
- Attended Cannes Film Festival 2014.
- Attended Cannes Film Festival 2016.
- After he got older he started to get roles in WW-2 projects playing his grandfather German Staff Officer Otto Von Hohenzollern in historical films and TV work because of the close family resemblance.
- When he was younger he was constantly worried about losing work because of his German Accent so he studied the works of Shakespeare and his use of Iambic Pentameter and would recite verses from plays before he would go on camera to control his nervousness which had a side benefit in the early days of TV because he got many parts in many televised Shakespeare plays because he knew many of the plays by heart.
- In the last 12 years since he went back to work in front of the camera he has done more work then the first 60 years of his life which at that time was over 1200 appearances on camera.
- He was also a very talented artist,animator and effects creator to help pay the bills after his wife died and left him with two young children.
- At age 84 he maybe having the busiest year of his life, taking 3 projects Cannes 69 and writing the music for and doing the art work for all 14 projects he has underway. Proves age is not a real barrier just a state of mind.
- Originally his Oldecam Comments on the Headlines of Today was a daily feature on MSN Spaces and when they shut down episodes were moved to YouTube and placed there out of their original sequence, and on three different YouTube channels including that of Oldecam. Altogether there are more then 3,000 episodes on various YouTube channels, right now he is trying to get them all listed in order.
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