Gertan Klauber

Known for ActingBorn 1932-03-05Died 2008-08-01Czechoslovakia

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Crane

Espionage

House of Cards

Blackadder

The Sweeney

Inspector Morse

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

Doctor Who

Upstairs, Downstairs

Doctor Who: The Romans

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

The Prisoner

The Avengers

The Professionals

Colditz

The Goodies

Softly, Softly

The Queen's Nose

The Saint

The Kitchen

Top Secret!

Jack the Ripper

Theatre 625

Man of the World

Playhouse

Operation: Daybreak

Poldark

Bad Timing

The Big Job

Operation Crossbow

Diana

Sherlock Holmes

Carry On Cleo

Anna Karenina

Octopussy

Carry On Doctor

Crossbow

Dateline Diamonds

Wuthering Heights

Backbeat

Carry On Spying

Three on a Spree

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Carry On Abroad

The Deadly Affair

Our Miss Fred

Carry On Henry