 It was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in what is now modern-day Czechoslovakia.His father was Julius "Kino" Kohner, who managed the local movie theater and published a film industry newspaper, and his mother was Helene Kohner (née Beamt).He had two brothers, Friedrich "Frederick" Kohner, a film and TV writer who created the character Gidget (based on his daughter, Kathy), and Walter Kohner, a Hollywood agent whose wife, Hanna Kohner, in May 1953, was the first non-celebrity featured on the TV show, "This Is Your Life," where she was the first Holocaust survivor to talk about her experience in concentration and death camps during the Holocaust on television.