Jack Klaff

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

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. "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".