Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 05, 1932
Died
Aug 01, 2008
Place of Birth
Czechoslovakia
Credits
82 titles
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).
Known For
Filmography
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Ola (voice)
Acts of Passion
The Queen's Nose
Robber
Good King Wenceslas
Kalousek
Backbeat
Pimp
A Very Polish Practice
Swarthy Man on Plane
House of Cards
Blackhead
Jack the Ripper
Diemschutz
Crossbow
Inspector Morse
German Man
A Dangerous Kind of Love
Mr. Seiler
Top Secret!
East German Mayor
The Cold Room
Older Nazi
Diana
Roger
Blackadder
King George III
Octopussy
Bubi
Bad Timing
Ambulance Man
Carry On Emmannuelle
German Soldier
The Professionals
Helmut Brenick
That's Carry On!
Wash Orderly / Marcus (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Pasha
Operation: Daybreak
Kubelwagen Driver (uncredited)
Poldark
Tom Harry
The Sweeney
Emilio
Percy's Progress
Pablo
Venom
Kurt
Playhouse
Streicher
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Gestapo
Whoops Baghdad
Majordomo
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Waiter
The Pied Piper
Town Cryer
Our Miss Fred
German Officer (uncredited)
Carry On Abroad
Postcard Seller
Colditz
Korporal Henneberg
The Protectors
Gromeld
Up the Front
Donner
Upstairs, Downstairs
Albert Schoenfeld
Carry On Henry
Bidet
The Goodies
Leo the Last
Man in Secret Meeting (uncredited)
Cry of the Banshee
Tavern Keeper
Wuthering Heights
Drunk Man (as Gertain Klauber)
Scream and Scream Again
Border Guard
Happy Ever After
Kuslov
Department S
Antonio Mardi
Before Winter Comes
Russian Major
Carry On Doctor
Wash Orderly
Billion Dollar Brain
Dr. Kaarna (uncredited)
The Prisoner
Cafe Waiter
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Ola