Gertan Klauber

Gertan Klauber was a Czech-born British actor who moved to the United Kingdom before World War II and trained at the Birmingham School of Acting. He worked on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, playing in Peter Hall's 1957 West End staging of Camino Real and in The Lower Depths for the RSC in 1962. He became best known for character parts, particularly in the Carry On comedies, where he was usually given small roles but took the larger part of Marcus in Carry On Cleo (1964). On television he often played minor villains, turning up in The Saint, Danger Man, The Avengers and Doctor Who, and as George III in Blackadder the Third. His film work included Octopussy (1983), an uncredited part in The Living Daylights (1987) and the Beatles biopic Backbeat (1994), his last screen role. He died in 2008.