Howard Caine
Born	January 2, 1928(1928-01-02) Nashville, Tennessee
Died	December 28, 1993 (aged 65) North Hollywood, California
Occupation	Film, television actors

Howard Cohen (January 2, 1928 – December 28, 1993), who performed as Howard Caine, was a popular character actor, probably best known as Gestapo agent Major Wolfgang Hochstetter in the television series Hogan's Heroes.

At the age of 13 Howard Caine (family name Cohen) moved with his family from his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, to New York City, where he began studying acting. Learning to erase his Southern accent, he went on to became a master of 32 foreign and American dialects. After serving in World War II-he joining the United States Navy fighting the Japanese in Pacific theater-Caine continued his studies at The School of Drama, Columbia University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He was featured on Broadway in "Wonderful Town", "Inherit the Wind" "Lunatics and Lovers" and "Tiger at the Gates". He replaced Ray Walston as "Mr. Applegate", the star of Broadway's "Damn Yankees". He was featured in such films as From the Terrace (1960), Pay or Die (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), Pressure Point (1962) and Alvarez Kelly (1966). He co-starred with Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons in Watermelon Man (1970) and played Lewis Morris of New York in 1776 (1972). He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.

He acted in more than 750 live and filmed television programs, including the 1961 episode "The Vials" of the western series Two Faces West. He is best remembered as Gestapo Major Hochstetter on the classic Hogan's Heroes (1965). He was featured as "Everett Scovill", a thinly disguised portrait of Charles Manson's attorney Irving Kanarek, on the CBS two-part TV Movie of the Week Helter Skelter (1976). He had always been fascinated with the Appalachian five-string banjo, and began mastering it in the mid-'60s. From the summer of 1970 until his death in 1993, he had taken trophies at 29 prominent banjo and fiddle contests in the Southland for both Best Traditional Banjo and Traditional Singing. He was also a popular folk singer and appeared at a number of prominent folk clubs and folk festivals.

[edit] External links

• Howard Caine at the Internet Movie Database
• Howard Caine at the Internet Broadway Database
• Howard Caine at Allmovie
• Howard Caine at Find a Grave