Gertan Klauber
Acting • Born 1932-03-05 – Died 2008-08-01
Biography
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
83 credits
Carry On Henry
Movie • 1971
Bidet
Bad Timing
Movie • 1980
Ambulance Man
Percy's Progress
Movie • 1974
Pablo
The Hands of Orlac
Movie • 1960
Fairground attendant
A Very Polish Practice
Movie • 1992
Swarthy Man on Plane
The Deadly Affair
Movie • 1967
Man at Zurich Airport
The Pied Piper
Movie • 1972
Town Cryer
Before Winter Comes
Movie • 1969
Russian Major
Wuthering Heights
Movie • 1970
Scream and Scream Again
Movie • 1970
Border Guard
Don't Panic Chaps
Movie • 1959
Schmidt
Carry On Cleo
Movie • 1964
Marcus
The Breaking Point
Movie • 1961
Lofty
Carry On Abroad
Movie • 1972
Postcard Seller
The Kitchen
Movie • 1961
Gaston
Carry On Emmannuelle
Movie • 1978
German Soldier
Operation: Daybreak
Movie • 1975
Kubelwagen Driver (uncredited)
Octopussy
Movie • 1983
Bubi
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Movie • 1976
The Pasha
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Movie • 1974
Gestapo
Backbeat
Movie • 1994
Pimp
Venom
Movie • 1974
Kurt
Anna Karenina
Movie • 1961
Stationmaster
Operation Crossbow
Movie • 1965
Soldier at Rocket Plant
Top Secret!
Movie • 1984
East German Mayor
Hot Enough for June
Movie • 1964
Technician in Czech Glass Factory
The Big Job
Movie • 1965
Milkman
Carry On Doctor
Movie • 1967
Wash Orderly
Carry On Spying
Movie • 1964
Code Clerk
The Pursuers
Movie • 1961
Bernstein
Billion Dollar Brain
Movie • 1967
Dr. Kaarna (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Romans
Movie • 1965
Galley Master
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie • 1967
Ola
Cry of the Banshee
Movie • 1970
Tavern Keeper
Good King Wenceslas
Movie • 1994
Kalousek
Top Secret!
Movie • 1984
Mayor
Dateline Diamonds
Movie • 1965
Meverhof
The Cold Room
Movie • 1984
Older Nazi
Three on a Spree
Movie • 1961
Joe
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie • 2019
Ola (voice)
A Dangerous Kind of Love
Movie • 1986
Mr. Seiler
The Government Inspector
Movie • 1958
Mishka
Up the Front
Movie • 1972
Donner
Battle of the V-1
Movie • 1958
SS Guard (uncredited)
That's Carry On!
Movie • 1977
Wash Orderly / Marcus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leo the Last
Movie • 1970
Man in Secret Meeting (uncredited)
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Emilio
Colditz
TV • 1972
Korporal Henneberg
The Prisoner
TV • 1967
Cafe Waiter
Department S
TV • 1969
Antonio Mardi
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Ola
Softly, Softly
TV • 1966
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Kruger
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
German Man
The Goodies
TV • 1970
The Protectors
TV • 1972
Gromeld
The Saint
TV • 1962
The Barman
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Porter
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1964
Upstairs, Downstairs
TV • 1971
Albert Schoenfeld
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
TV • 1973
Waiter
Blackadder
TV • 1983
King George III
Colditz
TV • 1972
German Radio Announcer (voice)
The Saint
TV • 1962
Renato
Jack the Ripper
TV • 1988
Diemschutz
The Professionals
TV • 1977
Helmut Brenick
House of Cards
TV • 1990
Blackhead
Queen's Nose
TV • 1995
Robber
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Streicher
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Turkish Inspector
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Montfleury
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Konon Molody
HMS Paradise
TV • 1964
Native Chief
Crane
TV • 1963
Habbas
Crane
TV • 1963
Darius
Whoops Baghdad
TV • 1973
Majordomo
Man of the World
TV • 1962
Arturo
Jesus of Nazareth
TV • 1956
The Informer
TV • 1966
Frank
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Landlord
Poldark
TV • 1975
Tom Harry
Crossbow
TV • 1987