Jack Klaff is a South African-born actor, writer and academic. He attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has held professorships at Princeton University and Starlab.
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. He also appeared in the 1984-87 BBC radio comedy series Delve Special alongside Stephen Fry.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1976 Space: 1999 Launch Pad Security Guard 3 episodes1977 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 movie1985 King David Jonathan 1987 Vanity Fair Rawdon Crawley TV miniseries1990 1871 Cluseret 1991 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes The Hon. Philip Green The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax1991 Chernobyl: The Final Warning Dr Pieter Claasen TV movie1991 Red Dwarf Abraham Lincoln 1 episode1995 Ghosts Trevor 1 episode1998 Cadfael Lord Eudo Blount The Potter's Field2004 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.Finkle, David. "Kafka: The Beloved, Truly Awesome Writer, Brilliantly Conjured" New York Stage Review. "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".
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