Gertan Klauber

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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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2019
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie Ola (voice)
1999
Acts of Passion
TV show
1995
The Queen's Nose
TV show Robber
1994
Good King Wenceslas
Movie Kalousek
1994
Backbeat
Movie Pimp
1992
A Very Polish Practice
Movie Swarthy Man on Plane
1990
House of Cards
TV show Blackhead
1988
Jack the Ripper
TV show Diemschutz
1987
Crossbow
TV show
1987
Inspector Morse
TV show German Man
1986
A Dangerous Kind of Love
Movie Mr. Seiler
1984
Top Secret!
Movie East German Mayor
1984
The Cold Room
Movie Older Nazi
1984
Diana
TV show Roger
1983
Blackadder
TV show King George III
1983
Octopussy
Movie Bubi

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1980
Bad Timing
Movie Ambulance Man
1979
Thomas & Sarah
TV show Max
1978
Carry On Emmannuelle
Movie German Soldier
1978
The Famous Five
TV show Brian
1977
The Professionals
TV show Helmut Brenick
1977
That's Carry On!
Movie Wash Orderly / Marcus (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Movie The Pasha
1975
Operation: Daybreak
Movie Kubelwagen Driver (uncredited)
1975
Poldark
TV show Tom Harry
1975
The Sweeney
TV show Emilio
1974
Percy's Progress
Movie Pablo
1974
Venom
Movie Kurt
1974
Playhouse
TV show Streicher
1974
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Movie Gestapo
1973
Whoops Baghdad
TV show Majordomo
1973
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
TV show Waiter
1972
The Pied Piper
Movie Town Cryer
1972
Our Miss Fred
Movie German Officer (uncredited)
1972
Carry On Abroad
Movie Postcard Seller
1972
Colditz
TV show Korporal Henneberg
1972
The Protectors
TV show Gromeld
1972
Up the Front
Movie Donner
1971
Upstairs, Downstairs
TV show Albert Schoenfeld
1971
Carry On Henry
Movie Bidet