Gert Fröbe

German actor (1913-1988)

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Born: 1913-02-25
Died: 1988-09-05
Works: 1

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Film & TV

Acting · Zwickau, Germany

Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe (25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst, and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gert Fröbe, licensed under CC-BY-SA,…

Known for

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse — Jürgen Krass (archive footage)2018
The Exotic Locations of 'Goldfinger' — Goldfinger (archive footage)2006
Otto – The Series — Verschiedene1995
Auf ein Neues — Self - Narrator1988
Showgeschichten — Self1986
The Little Vampire — Geiermeier1986
Alte Sünden rosten nicht — Konsul Heimann1985
Die Schwarzwaldklinik — 100-jähriger Patient Theodor Katz

Article

Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe ( German: [ˈɡɛɐ̯t ˈfʁøːbə] ; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor who appeared in over 100, mostly German-produced films. He was best known in English-speaking countries for his work as the title character in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). Other international films include his role as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), as General Dietrich von Choltitz in Is Paris Burning? (1966), as Colonel Manfred von Holstein in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), and as Inspector Bauer in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977).

Fröbe was a three-time German Film Award nominee, twice for Best Leading Actor and once for Best Supporting Actor. In 1978, he won an honorary award for "outstanding individual contributions to the German cinema over the years."