Gertan Klauber
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1932-03-05
Day of Death
2008-08-01 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Czechoslovakia
Gertan Klauber
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).
Acting
(2019)
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
as Ola (voice)
(1994)
Backbeat
as Pimp
(1994)
Good King Wenceslas
as Kalousek
(1992)
A Very Polish Practice
as Swarthy Man on Plane
(1986)
A Dangerous Kind of Love
as Mr. Seiler
(1984)
Top Secret!
as East German Mayor
(1984)
Top Secret!
as Mayor
(1984)
The Cold Room
as Older Nazi
(1983)
Octopussy
as Bubi
(1980)
Bad Timing
as Ambulance Man
(1978)
Carry On Emmannuelle
as German Soldier
(1976)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as The Pasha
(1975)
Operation: Daybreak
as Kubelwagen Driver (uncredited)
(1974)
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Gestapo
(1974)
Percy's Progress
as Pablo
(1974)
Venom
as Kurt
(1972)
Carry On Abroad
as Postcard Seller
(1972)
The Pied Piper
as Town Cryer
(1971)
Carry On Henry
as Bidet
(1970)
(1970)
Cry of the Banshee
as Tavern Keeper
(1970)
Scream and Scream Again
as Border Guard
(1969)
Before Winter Comes
as Russian Major
(1967)
Carry On Doctor
as Wash Orderly
(1967)
Billion Dollar Brain
as Dr. Kaarna (uncredited)
(1967)
The Deadly Affair
as Man at Zurich Airport
(1967)
(1965)
Operation Crossbow
as Soldier at Rocket Plant
(1965)
The Big Job
as Milkman
(1965)
Doctor Who: The Romans
as Galley Master
(1965)
Dateline Diamonds
as Meverhof
(1964)
Carry On Cleo
as Marcus
(1964)
Carry On Spying
as Code Clerk
(1964)
Hot Enough for June
as Technician in Czech Glass Factory
(1961)
Anna Karenina
as Stationmaster
(1961)
The Kitchen
as Gaston
(1961)
The Breaking Point
as Lofty
(1961)
The Pursuers
as Bernstein
(1961)
Three on a Spree
as Joe
(1960)
The Hands of Orlac
as Fairground attendant
(1959)
Don't Panic Chaps!
as Schmidt