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Frankymole · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 2:14 pm Post subject:

Early1970s at a guess? Based on hairstyle. Might be late 60s, just after the Bond movie perhaps. Probably pre-Theatre of Blood.
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Brugeoise · Nutshell Joined: 29 Oct 2016 Posts: 48

I found these stills which appear to belong to unaired bits of footage from The Great Great Britain Crime (credit on the watermarks)

mousemeat · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:56 am Post subject:

Frankymole · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:53 am Post subject:

dissolute · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:30 pm Post subject:

That explains a lot, I always wondered why Gertan has a credit when he's barely in HAOL.
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Frankymole · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:38 am Post subject:

His wife (Gwendolyn Watts) was in The Avengers too, as "Julie" in Man With Two Shadows.

Nice mini-biography of him on IMDB:

Corpulent, bushy-browed Czechoslovakian-born character actor Gertan Klauber was a familiar face on British television, appearing in anything from 'Carry On' comedies to playing a Roman galley master in Doctor Who (1963). In Britain from an early age, he studied acting in Birmingham before moving to London in the mid-1950's. Over the next four decades, he trod the boards of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Arts Theatre and the National Theatre, as well as acting in several drama series for BBC TV. His stock-in-trade was a fluency in Eastern and Central European dialects, as a result of which he was often typecast as spies, border guards, waiters, minor officials and oily second-string villains. As such, he guested on many popular television shows of the day, including The Saint (1962), Danger Man (1964), and The Prisoner (1967). He was, arguably, at his most amusing, as the mad, penguin-fixated King George III in the final instalment of Blackadder the Third (1987).
- IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis

He had a bigger role than the galley master in Dr Who a couple of years later, playing the sinister "Ola" who was the deputy to Peter Jeffrey's "Pilot" (colonial governor) in "The Macra Terror" story.
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Frankymole · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:48 am Post subject:

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Frankymole · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 6:38 am Post subject:

It's just during rehearsal for the actual scene to be shot, I imagine. They wouldn't take agency/press/publicity stills during the actual shooting so it was a between-filming chance for a smoke break. I don't think Steed smoked any more during the filmed seasons, but as we know from TNA he still carried a cigarette case for friends!

Or perhaps they were "facing the firing squad" and so were offered a last cigarette (but no blindfold!).
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mousemeat · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 4:33 pm Post subject:

Allard · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:34 am Post subject:

Great find!

I can't say I recognize anything but Gerald Harper in his costume, doesn't seem to have ended up in Homicide and Old Lace.