Gertan Klauber
Acting
1932-03-05 · Czechoslovakia
George Gertan Klauber (5 March 1932 – 1 August 2008) was a Czech-born British actor, known for playing various character parts in films and television programmes, particularly the Carry On comedies. Of Sudeten German and Jewish descent, Klauber was born in Czechoslovakia in 1932, and moved to the United Kingdom prior to the outbreak of World War II. He studied drama at the Birmingham School of Acting (now the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire). He appeared in numerous television productions, often playing minor villains, including episodes of The Saint, The Professionals, Danger Man, The Avengers, twice in Doctor Who as The Galley Master in The Romans and as Ola in The Macra Terror and as mad king George III in Blackadder the Third. He appeared in the TV musical Pickwick for the BBC in 1969. He also played a servile yet pompous waiter in one episode, "The Old Magic", of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Klauber was one of the regular recurring cast members of the Carry On films, appearing in seven films total (one uncredited). He usually played small roles, cast when the producers wanted someone big and sinister, or big and jovial, but had a prominent part as 'Marcus' in Carry On Cleo (1964). He appeared in two James Bond films: Octopussy (1983) and The Living Daylights (1987), though he was uncredited for the latter. His last film role was as a pimp in the Beatles biopic Backbeat (1994).
Filmography
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019 · Movie
Acts of Passion
1999 · Series
The Queen's Nose
1995 · Series
Good King Wenceslas
1994 · Movie
Backbeat
1994 · Movie
A Very Polish Practice
1992 · Movie
House of Cards
1990 · Series
Jack the Ripper
1988 · Series
Crossbow
1987 · Series
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
A Dangerous Kind of Love
1986 · Movie
Top Secret!
1984 · Movie
The Cold Room
1984 · Movie
Diana
1984 · Series
Blackadder
1983 · Series
Octopussy
1983 · Movie
Bad Timing
1980 · Movie
Carry On Emmannuelle
1978 · Movie
The Professionals
1977 · Series
That's Carry On!
1977 · Movie
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 · Movie
Operation: Daybreak
1975 · Movie
Poldark
1975 · Series
The Sweeney
1975 · Series
Percy's Progress
1974 · Movie
Venom
1974 · Movie
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974 · Movie
Whoops Baghdad
1973 · Series
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973 · Series
The Pied Piper
1972 · Movie
Our Miss Fred
1972 · Movie
Carry On Abroad
1972 · Movie
Colditz
1972 · Series
The Protectors
1972 · Series
Up the Front
1972 · Movie
Upstairs, Downstairs
1971 · Series
Carry On Henry
1971 · Movie
The Goodies
1970 · Series
Leo the Last
1970 · Movie
Cry of the Banshee
1970 · Movie
Wuthering Heights
1970 · Movie
Scream and Scream Again
1970 · Movie
Happy Ever After
1969 · Series
Department S
1969 · Series
Before Winter Comes
1969 · Movie
Carry On Doctor
1967 · Movie
Billion Dollar Brain
1967 · Movie
The Prisoner
1967 · Series
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967 · Movie
The Deadly Affair
1967 · Movie
The Informer
1966 · Series
Softly, Softly
1966 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
The Big Job
1965 · Movie
Dateline Diamonds
1965 · Movie
Operation Crossbow
1965 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Romans
1965 · Movie
Carry On Cleo
1964 · Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
1964 · Series
HMS Paradise
1964 · Series
Carry On Spying
1964 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes
1964 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
Hot Enough for June
1964 · Movie
Doctor Who
1963 · Series
Espionage
1963 · Series
Crane
1963 · Series
The Saint
1962 · Series
Man of the World
1962 · Series
The Pursuers
1961 · Movie
Anna Karenina
1961 · Movie
The Kitchen
1961 · Movie
Three on a Spree
1961 · Movie
The Avengers
1961 · Series
The Breaking Point
1961 · Movie
The Hands of Orlac
1960 · Movie
Don't Panic Chaps
1959 · Movie
No Hiding Place
1959 · Series
One Step Beyond
1959 · Series
The Government Inspector
1958 · Movie
Battle of the V-1
1958 · Movie
Jesus of Nazareth
1956 · Series