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Felice Orlandi (18 September 1925 – 21 May 2003) was an Italian-born American actor, known for roles in films such as The Pusher (1960), Bullitt (1968), Catch-22 (1970) and The Driver (1978). He also appeared in numerous TV series during the 1960s-1980s, including Gunsmoke, Mannix, Hogan's Heroes, Hawaii Five-O and Hill Street Blues.

A native of Avezzano in Italy, he was raised in Cleveland, and earned a theater arts degree at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University). He made his Broadway debut in 1954 in The Girl on the Via Flaminia. He was married to actress Alice Ghostley for 52 years.

Orlandi died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, at age 77. He is buried in part of the Ghostley family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Upon her death in 2007, his wife Alice, was buried beside. Alice's sister, Gladys and their parents are also interred here. The cemetery is approximately 130 miles (210 km) from where the family lived when the sisters were children.

He appeared in Hogan's Heroes in four episodes; Reverend Kommandant Klink as Lt. Claude Boucher, and as Lt. Maurice DuBois in Nights in Shining Armor, Is General Hammerschlag Burning?, and A Russian Is Coming. Furthermore, his wife appeared in two episodes of Hogan's Heroes; In Watch the Trains Go By as Gertrude (Burkhalter) Linkmeyer, and That's No Lady, That's My Spy as Mrs. Mannheim.


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