{"id":70288,"date":"2025-08-01T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70288"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:20:03","slug":"kenneth-washington-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70288","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Washington, Last"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Actor Kenneth Washington, who starred in a number of high-profile television and movie productions spanning several decades, passed away at the age of 88.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Variety reports<\/a> that Washington passed away on July 18 of last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The performer had the unfortunate distinction of being the final cast member of the beloved CBS sitcom Hogan\u2019s Heroes, which was set in a Nazi Germany prisoner of war camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington appeared as a guest on several popular television shows, such as My Three Sons, the 1967 Dragnet revival, Petticoat Junction, The FBI, The Rockford Files, and Police Story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1969, he also had the honour of appearing as a guest on the third and last season of the original Star Trek series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1970, Washington appeared in the sixth and last season of Hogan\u2019s Heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He portrayed Sergeant Richard Baker, who stepped in for another Black actor, Ivan Dixon, who had played Staff Sergeant James \u2018Kinch\u2019 Kinchloe for the previous five seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington was born in 1936 in Ethel, Mississippi, but his family quickly moved to the Bay Area of California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After becoming interested in acting as an adult, Washington relocated to Los Angeles in order to concentrate on auditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He attended Loyola Marymount University to complete his degree when his acting career came to an end, and he later returned to teach a class on Black performers in movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Variety claims that Washington also instructed speech and oral interpretation seminars at Southwest College in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1959 to 1969, Washington was married to Alyce Hawkins, with whom he had three children: Quianna Stokes-Washington, Kenneth Jr., and Kim Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2001, he wed his second wife, Alice Marshall, a former Variety film reviews editor and the editor-in-chief of the Wave Newspapers in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to his brother Johnnie and sister Aaliyah Akbar, Washington is survived by his wife, three children, three granddaughters, and four great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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