Gertan Klauber
Acting
Born 1932-03-05
Died 2008-08-01
Czechoslovakia
83 credits
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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).
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Acting
53 credits
Doctor Who
The Avengers
The Saint
BBC Play of the Month
Inspector Morse
Playhouse
The Professionals
Theatre 625
Blackadder
One Step Beyond
Upstairs, Downstairs
The Sweeney
The Prisoner
Octopussy
The Protectors
Poldark
Espionage
House of Cards
Department S
Man of the World
Jack the Ripper
Top Secret!
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Crane
Colditz
Operation Crossbow
The Informer
The Queen's Nose
Diana
HMS Paradise
Whoops Baghdad
Wuthering Heights
Backbeat
Operation: Daybreak
The Count of Monte Cristo
Bad Timing
Happy Ever After
Billion Dollar Brain
The Deadly Affair
Carry On Cleo
Carry On Abroad
Cry of the Banshee
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Hot Enough for June
The Pied Piper
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Carry On Spying
That's Carry On!
The Hands of Orlac
Scream and Scream Again
Percy's Progress
Leo the Last
Carry On Henry
Other credits
7 credits
The Goodies
No Hiding Place
Crossbow
Softly, Softly
Sherlock Holmes
Jesus of Nazareth
Acts of Passion
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