Gertan Klauber

George Gertan Klauber (5 March 1932 – 1 August 2008) was a British bit part character actor.

Klauber was born in Czechoslovakia. He played small roles in many of the Carry On films and 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".

He was married to the British actress Gwendolyn Watts.

Partial filmography

• Battle of the V-1 (1958)
• The Hands of Orlac (1960)
• The Kitchen (1961)
• The Breaking Point (1961)
• Hot Enough for June (1964)
• Carry On Spying (1964)
• Carry On Cleo (1964)
• Operation Crossbow (1965)
• Dateline Diamonds (1965)
• The Big Job (1965)
• Carry On Doctor (1967)
• Carry On Henry (1971)
• Venom (aka The Legend of Spider Forest) (1971)
• Up the Front (1972)
• Carry On Abroad (1972)
• Upstairs, Downstairs (1974) (episode:"The Beastly Hun")
• Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
• Bad Timing (1980)
• Octopussy (1983)
• Top Secret! (1984)
• Jack the Ripper (1988)
• Backbeat (1994)

References

• guardian.co.uk 28 November 2008: Obituary

External links

• Gertan Klauber at the Internet Movie Database
• Gertan Klauber at AllMovie