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).
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Top Secret!
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Top Secret!
as MayorPopular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music...
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Backbeat
as PimpChronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the...
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Billion Dollar Brain
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
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Bad Timing
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Carry On Cleo
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Carry On Abroad
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Carry On Doctor
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Cry of the Banshee
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The Pied Piper
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Operation: Daybreak
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Carry On Henry
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Carry On Spying
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The Hands of Orlac
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Doctor Who: The Romans
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The Cold Room
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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
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as Swarthy Man on PlaneScreen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar...
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The Saint
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The Goodies
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Softly, Softly
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The Sweeney
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Blackadder
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Doctor Who
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The Avengers
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Inspector Morse
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The Professionals
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No Hiding Place
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The Protectors
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Poldark
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Colditz
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Colditz
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The Prisoner
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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
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Upstairs, Downstairs
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Department S
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Jack the Ripper
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House of Cards
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Sherlock Holmes
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Man of the World
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Dead of Night
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The Informer
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