Overview

• Washington died on July 18 at age 88, with obituaries recognizing him as the final living member of Hogan’s Heroes’ main cast.
• In the late 1960s, he held a recurring role as Officer Miller on Adam-12 and made guest appearances on Star Trek, My Three Sons and other prime-time series before starring in the sci-fi film Westworld.
• He joined Hogan’s Heroes for its sixth and final season as Sergeant Richard Baker, succeeding Ivan Dixon’s character Kinchloe and marking one of the first regular network sitcom roles for a Black actor.
• After retiring from acting in the late 1980s, Washington earned a degree from Loyola Marymount University and taught courses on Black film actors, public speaking and oral interpretation at LMU and Southwest College in Los Angeles.
• He is survived by his wife, former Variety editor Alice Marshall, his three children, three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, brother Johnnie and sister Aaliyah Akbar.