Acting
March 4, 1932 (76 years old)
July 31, 2008
Czechoslovakia
Also Known As
Gertain Klauber
Gerton 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).

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019
as Ola (voice)

Queen's Nose
1995
as Robber

Good King Wenceslas
1994
as Kalousek

Backbeat
1994
as Pimp

House of Cards
1990
as Blackhead

Jack the Ripper
1988
as Diemschutz

Inspector Morse
1987
as German Man

Top Secret!
1984
as East German Mayor

Top Secret!
1984
as Mayor

The Cold Room
1984
as Older Nazi

Blackadder
1983
as King George III

Octopussy
1983
as Bubi

Bad Timing
1980
as Ambulance Man

Carry On Emmannuelle
1978
as German Soldier

The Professionals
1977
as Helmut Brenick

That's Carry On!
1977
as Wash Orderly / Marcus (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
as The Pasha

Operation: Daybreak
1975
as Kubelwagen Driver (uncredited)

Poldark
1975
as Tom Harry

The Sweeney
1975
as Emilio