Jack Klaff
South African actor, academic, writer
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Jack Klaff is a South African-born actor, writer and academic.[1] He has held professorships at Princeton University and Starlab.[2]
Among his early screen roles were those 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
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Space: 1999 | Launch Pad Security Guard | 3 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 | Officer | TV movie |
| 1985 | King David | Jonathan | |
| 1987 | Vanity Fair | Rawdon Crawley | TV miniseries |
| 1990 | 1871 | Cluseret | |
| 1991 | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | The Hon. Philip Green | The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax |
| 1991 | Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr Pieter Claasen | TV movie |
| 1991 | Red Dwarf | Abraham Lincoln | 1 episode |
| 1995 | Ghosts | Trevor | 1 episode |
| 1998 | Cadfael | Lord Eudo Blount | The Potter's Field |
| 2004 | Hotet | McBready | |
| 2009 | Elemental Storage | Professor 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".
