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The actress who played Colonel Klink's sexy blonde secretary Hilda on Hogan's Heroes and married the show's star, Bob Crane, has died aged 72.
Patricia Crane died on October 14, a spokeswoman for the Orange County coroner's office said. Crane's stage name was Sigrid Valdis.
Crane played Hilda for five seasons on Hogan's Heroes, the 1965-71 comedy about Allied prisoners in a World War II German PoW camp.
Hilda and Bob Crane's Colonel Hogan flirted playfully in front of the screen, but in 1970 were married for real - on the show's set.
