Jack Klaff

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Jack Klaff
Born
Jack Klaff

Johannesburg, South Africa
Occupation(s)Actor, writer, academic

Jack Klaff is a South African-born actor, writer and academic. [1] He has held professorships at Princeton University and Starlab. [2]

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Amongst his early screen roles were in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) as Red Four and For Your Eyes Only (1981) as Apostis. [3] He also appeared in the 1984-87 BBC radio comedy series Delve Special alongside Stephen Fry.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1976 Space: 1999 Launch Pad Security Guard3 episodes
1977 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope John D. Branon (Red Four)
1981 For Your Eyes Only Apostis
1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame OfficerTV movie
1985 King David Jonathan
1987 Vanity Fair Rawdon CrawleyTV miniseries
1990 1871 Cluseret
1991 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes The Hon. Philip GreenThe Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
1991 Chernobyl: The Final Warning Dr Pieter ClaasenTV movie
1991 Red Dwarf Abraham Lincoln 1 episode
1995 Ghosts Trevor1 episode
1998 Cadfael Lord Eudo BlountThe Potter's Field
2004HotetMcBready
2009Elemental StorageProfessor Phillip Hargrave

Jack Klaff appeared in Midsomer Murders, season 8, episode 2, as Freddie Bonavita.

In June 2025, at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan, Klaff appeared in the one-man play, Kafka , which he wrote. [4] "Kafka premiered in 1983 at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to commemorate the centenary of Kafka's birth". It was revived as part of a Jack Klaff Retrospective at the Riverside Studios in London in 1994 and was revived again in 2024, at the Finborough Theatre in London, "for the centenary of Kafka’s death".


References

  1. "Actor Jack Klaff Performs at St Mary's". 29 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014.
  2. "Jack Klaff". Intelligence Squared. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  3. "Jack Klaff". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 May 2017.
  4. Finkle, David. "Kafka: The Beloved, Truly Awesome Writer, Brilliantly Conjured" New York Stage Review.