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).
Carry On Henry
(Bidet)
Bad Timing
(Ambulance Man)
Percy's Progress
(Pablo)
The Hands of Orlac
(Fairground attendant)
A Very Polish Practice
(Swarthy Man on Plane)
The Deadly Affair
(Man at Zurich Airport)
The Pied Piper
(Town Cryer)
Before Winter Comes
(Russian Major)
Wuthering Heights
Scream and Scream Again
(Border Guard)
Don't Panic Chaps!
(Schmidt)
Carry On Cleo
(Marcus)
The Breaking Point
(Lofty)
Carry On Abroad
(Postcard Seller)
The Kitchen
(Gaston)
Carry On Emmannuelle
(German Soldier)
Operation: Daybreak
(Kubelwagen Driver (uncredited))
Octopussy
(Bubi)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
(The Pasha)
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
(Gestapo)
Backbeat
(Pimp)
Venom
(Kurt)
Anna Karenina
(Stationmaster)
Operation Crossbow
(Soldier at Rocket Plant)
Hot Enough for June
(Technician in Czech Glass Factory)
Top Secret!
(East German Mayor)
The Big Job
(Milkman)
Carry On Doctor
(Wash Orderly)
Carry On Spying
(Code Clerk)
The Pursuers
(Bernstein)
Billion Dollar Brain
(Dr. Kaarna (uncredited))
Doctor Who: The Romans
(Galley Master)
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
(Ola)
Cry of the Banshee
(Tavern Keeper)
Good King Wenceslas
(Kalousek)
Top Secret!
(Mayor)
Dateline Diamonds
(Meverhof)
The Cold Room
(Older Nazi)
Three on a Spree
(Joe)
The Sweeney
(Emilio)
Colditz
(Korporal Henneberg)
The Prisoner
(Cafe Waiter)
Department S
(Antonio Mardi)
Doctor Who
(Ola)
Softly, Softly
The Avengers
(Kruger)
Inspector Morse
(German Man)
The Goodies
The Protectors
(Gromeld)
The Saint
(The Barman)
The Venturers
Man of the World
One Step Beyond
(Porter)
No Hiding Place
Sherlock Holmes
Dead of Night
Whoops Baghdad
(The Sultan's Servant)
Poldark
(Tom Harry)
Upstairs, Downstairs
(Albert Schoenfeld)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
(Waiter)
Blackadder
(King George III)
Colditz
(German Radio Announcer (voice))
The Saint
(Renato)
Jack the Ripper
(Diemschutz)
The Professionals
(Helmut Brenick)
House of Cards
(Blackhead)