Gertan Klauber
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).
79 acting credits
Acting · 79
Doctor Who
1963
The Avengers
1961
The Saint
1962
The Professionals
1977
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Playhouse
1974
Inspector Morse
1987
The Sweeney
1975
Blackadder
1983
Theatre 625
1964
No Hiding Place
1959
One Step Beyond
1959
Upstairs, Downstairs
1971
The Protectors
1972
The Prisoner
1967
Softly, Softly
1966
Poldark
1975
Department S
1969
The Goodies
1970
Crossbow
1987
Espionage
1963
Octopussy
1983
Colditz
1972
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973
Top Secret!
1984
Sherlock Holmes
1964
House of Cards
1990
Jack the Ripper
1988
Man of the World
1962
Crane
1963
The Queen's Nose
1995
The Informer
1966
Diana
1984
Operation Crossbow
1965
HMS Paradise
1964
Backbeat
1994
Wuthering Heights
1970
Carry On Cleo
1964
Bad Timing
1980
Operation: Daybreak
1975
Hot Enough for June
1964
The Deadly Affair
1967
Carry On Doctor
1967
Whoops Baghdad
1973
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
Carry On Spying
1964
Billion Dollar Brain
1967
Cry of the Banshee
1970
Carry On Henry
1971
The Pied Piper
1972
Carry On Abroad
1972
The Big Job
1965
That's Carry On!
1977
Carry On Emmannuelle
1978
The Hands of Orlac
1960
Scream and Scream Again
1970
Before Winter Comes
1969
Jesus of Nazareth
1956
Doctor Who: The Romans
1965
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974
Dateline Diamonds
1965
Leo the Last
1970
Percy's Progress
1974
Don't Panic Chaps
1959
The Breaking Point
1961
The Cold Room
1984
Anna Karenina
1961
Good King Wenceslas
1994
Up the Front
1972
The Kitchen
1961
Battle of the V-1
1958
A Very Polish Practice
1992
The Pursuers
1961
The Government Inspector
1958
A Dangerous Kind of Love
1986
Three on a Spree
1961
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967
Venom
1974
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019