<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1953--1988 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Joan - Ellen Caine (m . - her death) Valerie Elson (m . 1991--1993; his death) </Td> </Tr> <P> Howard Caine (born Howard Cohen; January 2, 1926--December 28, 1993) was an American character actor, probably best known as Gestapo Major, Wolfgang Hochstetter in the television series Hogan's Heroes (1965--71). He also played Lewis Morris of New York in the musical film 1776, and Everett Scovill, a thinly disguised portrait of Charles Manson's attorney Irving Kanarek, in the television movie, Helter Skelter . </P> <P> Howard Caine was born on January 2, 1926, in Nashville, Tennessee, into a Jewish family . At the age of 13, Cohen moved with his family to New York City, where he began studying acting . Learning to erase his Southern accent, he went on to become a master of 32 foreign and American dialects . Caine served in the United States Navy during World War II, fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre . After the war, Caine studied drama at Columbia University, where he graduated summa cum laude . </P>

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