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).
Acting
Movie
Octopussy
as Bubi
1983
Movie
Top Secret!
as East German Mayor
1984
Movie
Top Secret!
as Mayor
1984
TV
Doctor Who
as Ola
1963
TV
Blackadder
as King George III
1983
TV
The Prisoner
as Cafe Waiter
1967
Movie
Bad Timing
as Ambulance Man
1980
TV
House of Cards
as Blackhead
1990
TV
The Avengers
as Kruger
1961
TV
Inspector Morse
as German Man
1987
TV
The Saint
as The Barman
1962
TV
The Saint
as Renato
1962
Movie
Operation Crossbow
as Soldier at Rocket Plant
1965
Movie
Billion Dollar Brain
as Dr. Kaarna (uncredited)
1967
TV
Jack the Ripper
as Diemschutz
1988
Movie
Backbeat
as Pimp
1994
Movie
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as The Pasha
1976
Movie
Scream and Scream Again
as Border Guard
1970
Movie
Carry On Cleo
as Marcus
1964
Movie
The Deadly Affair
as Man at Zurich Airport
1967
Movie
Carry On Abroad
as Postcard Seller
1972
Movie
Carry On Doctor
as Wash Orderly
1967
Movie
Cry of the Banshee
as Tavern Keeper
1970
Movie
Carry On Spying
as Code Clerk
1964