To millions of television viewers in the 1960s, Bob Crane was the very definition of effortless charm. As Colonel Hogan on Hogan’s Heroes, he could outsmart the Nazis with a smirk and a wink, a man ...

Research for a biopic about Lyndon B. Johnson or Martin Luther King Jr. might include a few documentaries, archived speeches and maybe a trip to the Library of Congress to peruse some old letters.

The interesting thing about Bob Crane, the blandly affable star of the '60s prisoner-of-war- camp sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" and the subject of Paul Schrader's smart, haunting "Auto Focus," is how ...

Amateur Night: Willem Dafoe, as John Carpenter, and Greg Kinnear, as Bob Crane. Crane says at one point in the film that he "dreams of finding someone who gets me as I am." But who is he? The movie ...