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    Sigrid Valdis

    I Just Read On The Latimes Online Obituaries That Bob Crane's 2nd Wife[and Co-star From Hogan's Heroes] Has Died From Lung Cancer At 72. She Died Oct 14th And Requested Her Funeral Be Private. She Was Also The Sister-in-law Of Actor Eric Braeden [victor Newman The Young And The Restless ] Her Sister Dale Is Braeden's Wife.

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    1karenhb Guest
    Thanks for the info. I just watched Auto Focus a few days ago.

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    Kathyf Guest
    I just read about this. It said she thought the movie Auto Focus was not all correct.

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    Kellycatt1 Guest
    Just rented auto focus. Can't wait to watch it.

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    Her birth name was Patricia Olsen.

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    leevancleef Guest
    ^Nice picture! i wonder if shes going to be buried next to Bob...

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    Danny62 Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by leevancleef View Post
    ^Nice picture! i wonder if shes going to be buried next to Bob...

    Oh yeah. she already had it engraved on the tombstone.

    she wanted to make sure Bob's first wife didn't get buried next to him.



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    Lisamarie Guest
    Thats so sweet! I love their grave !Thats so romantic!

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    1karenhb Guest
    I was stunned the first time I saw Bob Crane had been moved to Westwood Cemetery and disgusted when I read the headstones. I do believe they were going through an acrimonius divorce. She was even briefly considered a suspect and then to put all that crap on the headstone. Besides, he was a total perv!

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    GrinReaper Guest
    With a very pretty woman like that I wonder why would Bob feel the need to fool around with anyone else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1karenhb View Post
    I was stunned the first time I saw Bob Crane had been moved to Westwood Cemetery and disgusted when I read the headstones. I do believe they were going through an acrimonius divorce. She was even briefly considered a suspect and then to put all that crap on the headstone. Besides, he was a total perv!
    Scotty knows they were going to divorce. Bob wanted to clean up his life and go back to his first wife!

    Scotty is so full of shit. Yeah peddling porno's of his dad on the internet for profit!!

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    Mrs. Watson Guest
    Here's an article that gives some details.

    http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?ne...gt1=7703&mpc=1

    Yeah, Scotty is full of sh1t and sorry LisaMarie, but that headstone is the tackiest thing I've ever seen outside of some of Britney Spear's weaves. They were going through a very nasty divorce at the time, so the headstone was wildly inappropriate.

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    I honestly don't think Scotty really cared for his father! Well other than getting money out of him!

    I think Scotty and sigrid wanted to make sure his first wife was out of the picture.

    They knew he wanted to go back to her after the divorce!!

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    Cathy J. Guest
    Whatever became of Crane's first wife Ann?

    About Crane's son Scotty selling porn flicks of his dad online, awhile back I read on another site ( I think it was IMDB ), that many who paid money to this guy never received the goods though Scotty was pretty quick in taking their money.

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    Bake Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by 1karenhb View Post
    I was stunned the first time I saw Bob Crane had been moved to Westwood Cemetery and disgusted when I read the headstones. I do believe they were going through an acrimonius divorce. She was even briefly considered a suspect and then to put all that crap on the headstone. Besides, he was a total perv!
    When was he moved to Westwood?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrinReaper View Post
    With a very pretty woman like that I wonder why would Bob feel the need to fool around with anyone else?
    I believe the man had serious issues with an addiction to sex. He was compelled by his addiction, so even the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't stop him from straying, poor guy. (Addictions SUCK!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cathy J. View Post
    Whatever became of Crane's first wife Ann?

    About Crane's son Scotty selling porn flicks of his dad online, awhile back I read on another site ( I think it was IMDB ), that many who paid money to this guy never received the goods though Scotty was pretty quick in taking their money.
    Although he was in the midst of divorcing second wife, Patti, he was set to star in "Crash", a TV movie for ABC, and was preparing to share a new house with his son, Bob Jr.

    So why did they do this great headstone when he was going to divorce her?

    If anything I think Poor Bob would hate being buried with Sigrid!

    I can't find out much about his first wife Ann!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bake View Post
    When was he moved to Westwood?
    I don't know when he was actually moved there. A couple of years ago was walking around there with my ex when he called me over and said I wasn't going to believe this and there it was. He's right, I didn't believe it. I know that cemetery well and that headstone wasn't there on previous visits. Not hard to find at all and very tacky. He may have been there all along in an unmarked grave, I don't know. Anyone else know???

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    1karenhb Guest
    Update to previous post. I checked one of my books and Bob Crane was originally buried at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth, CA. He was moved to an unmarked grave at Westwood in 1999!

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    VegasVic Guest
    Nice she left his first son off of the marker completely. Real classy.

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    Danny62 Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by VegasVic View Post
    Nice she left his first son off of the marker completely. Real classy.

    Yep, her and that Dick son of her's Scotty! If anyone may not have been Bob's son it was Scotty!

    And now he is buried by someone who he was in the middle of divorcing!!

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    leevancleef Guest
    Disgusting and pathetic!
    Poor Bob, he cannot rest even in death!

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    Danny62 Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by leevancleef View Post
    Disgusting and pathetic!
    Poor Bob, he cannot rest even in death!
    And it sad because Bob wanted to get his life together and get help for his porn addiction!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danny62 View Post
    And it sad because Bob wanted to get his life together and get help for his porn addiction!!
    yeah, didnt they found more than 50 pornographic video tapes of himself having sex with several of his girlfriends??

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    Quote Originally Posted by VegasVic View Post
    Nice she left his first son off of the marker completely. Real classy.
    Check this out from IMDB on the movie AutoFocus, the role of Bob Crane Jr.and how Scotty/Sigrid take on same.

    "The product of Bob Crane's first marriage, Robert took a part in the Paul Schrader film Auto Focus (2002), which chronicled the sordid off-camera life and murder of his father. This went against the grain of his half-brother Scotty Crane and step-mother Sigrid Valdis who vehemently protested what they considered an exploitative and unfair picture of Crane."

    Now let me get this straight, Scotty -the same son who was selling his Dad's porno pics/video over the internet- had the audacity to accuse Crane Jr. of being exploitive. Pot meet F'n Kettle, dude.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leevancleef View Post
    yeah, didnt they found more than 50 pornographic video tapes of himself having sex with several of his girlfriends??
    ...and there was a darkroom in the bathroom too.

    that is why I have some doubts whether or not Crane was serious about really getting away from his being hooked on porn. Had he threw all this stuff away then I would say he was serious.

    Sort of like alcohol and cigarettes. If one wants to kick the cigarette habit, you don't have packs of Marlboros around the house. You get rid of them.

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    Danny62 Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Cathy J. View Post
    ...and there was a darkroom in the bathroom too.

    that is why I have some doubts whether or not Crane was serious about really getting away from his being hooked on porn. Had he threw all this stuff away then I would say he was serious.

    Sort of like alcohol and cigarettes. If one wants to kick the cigarette habit, you don't have packs of Marlboros around the house. You get rid of them.

    From what I have read the weekend he was murdered was the weekend he decided he wanted to get help? Supposedly he told John and also was divorcing his wife so evidence supports he may have been serious!

    The sad part is Bob's murder will never be solved and questions will always remain about if he truly wanted to get help and would have gone back to his first wife?

    For me I will always remember him as colonel Hogan of Hogan's Heroes!!

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    I wonder what Ms. Olson/Valdis's first husband died of. Also wondering why she never married again, "tainted" by association with Crane's murder, or not. People do marry people who actually COMMIT murders and other unsavory acts, right or wrong.... The woman was still fairly attractive, and her children by Crane were still very young (Scotty being decades away from profiting off his dead father's proclivities.) She made her almost 30-year "widowhood" into a second career, it seems.

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    Sharmika Guest
    "Awwwww! Hogan and Hilda, TOGETHER FOREVER!", is what I'd say, had I not read what I did about their "parting of the ways"

    Beautiful way to stick it to the 1st wife; the one that he seemed to REALLY WANT! Who wants to bet that the mongrel of a son had a say in that headstone? ... Anyone??

    If I can't have him and his name, NOBODY CAN! Atta girl!

    That's "love" for ya!

    Sweet gesture, though... (not)

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    Cathy J. Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Danny62 View Post
    From what I have read the weekend he was murdered was the weekend he decided he wanted to get help? Supposedly he told John and also was divorcing his wife so evidence supports he may have been serious!

    The sad part is Bob's murder will never be solved and questions will always remain about if he truly wanted to get help and would have gone back to his first wife?

    For me I will always remember him as colonel Hogan of Hogan's Heroes!!
    What gets me about Crane is how people back in the 60s and 70s thought it was just horrible that he would do porn and even visiting strip clubs. So bad it had gotten to the point where he had a hard time finding work because of his "reputation". But then again back in the 60s some states enforced those infamous sodomy laws and many towns actually had laws on the books banning porn period.

    Different time different era I guess.

    Today, no one would care at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cathy J. View Post
    What gets me about Crane is how people back in the 60s and 70s thought it was just horrible that he would do porn and even visiting strip clubs. So bad it had gotten to the point where he had a hard time finding work because of his "reputation". But then again back in the 60s some states enforced those infamous sodomy laws and many towns actually had laws on the books banning porn period.

    Different time different era I guess.

    Today, no one would care at all.

    I didn't even think of that! Today he would could have freedom to film porn and still get steady work!!

    Its sad how the times have changed!!

    Hell he would probably get more work today because of it!!

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    Wow when I visited Westwood and saw that stone I thought it was kind of sweet..now that I know the whole story and reading the stone now..I think it's just Sigrid and her son chucking the finger at his 1st wife..how sad and pathetic..and Bob is probably rolling in his grave with her now right next to him!

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    sassie Guest
    That is a seriously tacky headstone.

    Sad, sad, sad.

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    Rhiannon Guest
    When I was 17 I accompanied my father to a business dinner at the Hollywood Palladium (my mom was sick and tired of those things). It was some kind of a function for Junior Acheivment and Bob Crane was one of the keynote speakers. I got to chat with him for awhile after and he signed the family autograph book that my mom had started back when she used to go to the radio shows. He seemed like a very nice guy -- no perv vibes apparent at the time. Imagine my surprise about all the stuff that came out about him and his rather bizarre murder!

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    deathpool Guest
    She was really pretty looking. But her headstone is awful.

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    I honestly didn't know that she died. I'm watching her and Bob's wedding on Youtube and Auto Focus on the tele.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]peek-a-boo!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by joplinfrk View Post
    I honestly didn't know that she died. I'm watching her and Bob's wedding on Youtube and Auto Focus on the tele.
    I believe Sigrid paid for the wedding since Bob was flat broke at the time "From what I have read"

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    A pervert?

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhiannon View Post
    When I was 17 I accompanied my father to a business dinner at the Hollywood Palladium (my mom was sick and tired of those things). It was some kind of a function for Junior Acheivment and Bob Crane was one of the keynote speakers. I got to chat with him for awhile after and he signed the family autograph book that my mom had started back when she used to go to the radio shows. He seemed like a very nice guy -- no perv vibes apparent at the time. Imagine my surprise about all the stuff that came out about him and his rather bizarre murder!
    Everyone acts like he was some kind of lunatic or weirdo.Everyone accepts Hugh Hefner as a hero and there really wasn't much of a difference between the two.Except Bob screwed everything that moved,even ugly ones.I think Hef had higher standards in terms of appearance.Sex was just an interest.To his daughters Bob was a doting perfect father.He was and is no different than a million fathers today just keeping sex as an interest.And how many fathers are having fun on the computer while the wives and kids are asleep in the other rooms.Millions,Bob just kept his sex separate.Just like a million other fathers.Now filming it.Today,it's no different than fathers going to hard-core porn sites on the computer.And most of the fathers are loving and doting,law-abiding citizens,they keep everything separate.Bob a pervert.Well.millions of men also fit that category.Many of their wives now weigh 260 pounds and don't want sex.Who can blame the men? Bob,a weirdo,pervert,No Way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by james1977 View Post
    Everyone acts like he was some kind of lunatic or weirdo.Everyone accepts Hugh Hefner as a hero and there really wasn't much of a difference between the two.Except Bob screwed everything that moved,even ugly ones.I think Hef had higher standards in terms of appearance.Sex was just an interest.To his daughters Bob was a doting perfect father.He was and is no different than a million fathers today just keeping sex as an interest.And how many fathers are having fun on the computer while the wives and kids are asleep in the other rooms.Millions,Bob just kept his sex separate.Just like a million other fathers.Now filming it.Today,it's no different than fathers going to hard-core porn sites on the computer.And most of the fathers are loving and doting,law-abiding citizens,they keep everything separate.Bob a pervert.Well.millions of men also fit that category.Many of their wives now weigh 260 pounds and don't want sex.Who can blame the men? Bob,a weirdo,pervert,No Way.

    Maybe you are right. Look at all the stars that go in for sexual
    addiction now and no one calls them perverts. Interesting.

    I do remember him on Tattletales with his wife and he always
    said things that made me uncomfortable. I suppose now we
    wouldn't blink an eye at it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrinReaper View Post
    With a very pretty woman like that I wonder why would Bob feel the need to fool around with anyone else?
    Because he was a major sex addict.

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    Exactly. An addiction is an addiction.
    I agree 100% James. We laud Hugh Hefner as a hero and such and "good for him" for banging 20 year olds. Bob was no different, really. Hugh's porn is just on glossier paper.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]peek-a-boo!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by STRAIGHT View Post
    Because he was a major sex addict.
    From interviews I read, This second wife knew all about Bob's sex addiction. People in Bob's life had to accept the fact that this is something Bob did. At the time. most people thought that sex addicts were dirty old men who went to those seedy X-rated theaters. Sometimes people get addicted to sex because it is a form of validation. In other parts of Bob's life, he was actually pretty normal. He was into health food and didn't even drink Other people knew about Bob doing porn and thought nothing of it. I guess it was a day and age when people didn't know how to intervene with many addictions that turned out to be fatal or destructive. This is the same with Karen Carpenter with anorexia or Elvis with drugs.
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    I wish there was a pic of the headstone in this thread. Unfortunately, links go out of date after a while... Off to google!
    By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death.... He that dies this year is quit for the next.
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    Is there a photo of the gravestone?

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    I just came across this. Sigrid Valdis and I were pretty good email friends for quite some time. She was a really nice lady through email. We talked about the origin of her name, etc. I was sad when she became to sick to write. I know that she said that the release of "Auto Focus" was making her sicker.
    The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrinReaper View Post
    With a very pretty woman like that I wonder why would Bob feel the need to fool around with anyone else?
    Because he was a sex addict.?
    Carolyn(1958-2009) always in my heart.

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    Bob cheated on her, but she said that they were in the process of reconciling.
    The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.

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