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Gert Fröbe

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Also known as Karl Gerhart Fröbe, Gert Froebe, Gerhart Fröbe, Gerhart Froebe, Karl Fröbe, Karl Froebe

German actor (1913-1988)

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Gert Fröbe, born Karl Gerhart Fröbe on February 25, 1913, in Zwickau, Germany, was a German actor who worked in film, on stage, and as a voice actor. He began his professional career in 1948 and was a student of Erich Ponto. Fröbe spoke German and French and played the violin. He was a member of the Nazi Party.

Fröbe received the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Silver Shell for Best Actor. His written work includes "Auf ein Neues, sagte er ... und dabei fiel ihm das Alte ein." He was married to Tatjana Iwanow.

Fröbe died of natural causes due to a myocardial infarction on September 5, 1988, in Munich.

Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Auf ein Neues, sagte er ... und dabei fiel ihm das Alte ein

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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 Katz1985
  • August der Starke — König August der Starke1984
  • The Falcon — Jug Bogdan1983

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Germany
Active from
1913
Active to
1988

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
88
Total plays
477

Tags

germanymale vocalistschellack-schatzostalgie

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gert+Fr%C3%B6be">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,423x

  2. Brain–computer interfaces for communication and control

    · 2002 · cited 6,362x

  3. SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering

    · 2017 · cited 6,203x

  4. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    · 2017 · cited 5,577x

  5. Diagnosis and management of AML in adults: 2017 ELN recommendations from an international expert panel

    · 2017 · cited 4,880x

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Key facts

Born
Karl Gerhart Fröbe , ( 1913-02-25 ) 25 February 1913, Oberplanitz (near Zwickau ), Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Died
5 September 1988 (1988-09-05) (aged 75), Munich , West Germany
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1930s–1944 1948–1987
Spouse s
Karin Kuderer-Pistorius (1970–?), Beate Bach (1962–1968), Hannelore Görtz (1953–1959), Tatjana Iwanow, Clara Peter

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Encyclopedic overview

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."

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gert Fröbe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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