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Gertan Klauber

Born 5 March 1932 · Czechoslovakia · Died 1 August 2008

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).

Known for

Octopussy
Top Secret!
Doctor Who
Blackadder
Bad Timing
Operation Crossbow
Jack the Ripper
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Backbeat
Scream and Scream Again
Carry On Cleo
The Deadly Affair
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Backbeat
Good King Wenceslas
A Very Polish Practice
Top Secret!
The Cold Room
Octopussy
Bad Timing
Carry On Emmannuelle
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Percy's Progress
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Venom
The Pied Piper
Carry On Abroad
Up the Front
Carry On Henry
Wuthering Heights
Scream and Scream Again
Cry of the Banshee
Before Winter Comes
The Deadly Affair
Carry On Doctor
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Operation Crossbow
The Big Job
Doctor Who: The Romans
Dateline Diamonds
Carry On Cleo
Hot Enough for June
Carry On Spying
The Breaking Point
The Kitchen
Anna Karenina
The Pursuers
Three on a Spree
The Hands of Orlac
Don't Panic Chaps
The Government Inspector
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