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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1913-02-25 (112 years old)

Place of Birth

Zwickau, Germany

Gert Fröbe

Biography:

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.

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Known For

Acting

2018

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse as Jürgen Krass (archive footage)

2006

The Exotic Locations of 'Goldfinger' as Goldfinger (archive footage)

2002

Bond Girls Are Forever as Auric Goldfinger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Best Ever Bond as Auric Goldfinger (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000

Abendschau as Self

1988

Auf ein Neues as Self - Narrator

1986

The Little Vampire as Geiermeier

1985

Alte Sünden rosten nicht as Konsul Heimann
The Black Forest Clinic as 100-jähriger Patient Theodor Katz

1984

August der Starke as König August der Starke

1983

The Falcon as Jug Bogdan
Der Garten as Mr. Hayward

1981

Ludwig as Father Hoffman

1980

Umbrella Coup as Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine

1979

Bloodline as Inspector Max Hornung
Another Opera as Man on the street

1978

Der Tiefstapler as Felix von Korn
Der Schimmelreiter as Tede Volkerts, der alte Deichgraf

1977

The Serpent's Egg as Inspector Bauer
Tod oder Freiheit as Graf von Buttlar
Das Gesetz des Clans as Philip Brown

1976

Sonntagsgeschichten as Innkeeper

1975

Doctor Justice as Max Orwall / Georges Orwall
Death Rite as Vestar
L'Homme sans visage as Le commissaire Sorbier

1974

Shadowman as Sorbier
And Then There Were None as Wilhelm Blore

1973

Ludwig as Father Hoffmann

1972

1971

$ as Mr. Kessel

1969

Monte Carlo or Bust! as Willi Schickel & Horst Muller

1968

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst
Dear Caroline as Le docteur Belhomme

1967

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon as Professor Siegfried von Bulow
I Killed Rasputin as Rasputin

1966

Triple Cross as Colonel Steinhager
Is Paris Burning? as Von Choltitz
The Upper Hand as Walter
Ganovenehre as Importen-Paul

1965

A High Wind in Jamaica as Dutch Captain
Das Liebeskarussell as Emil Claasen
The Incredible World of James Bond as Self (archive footage)

1964

Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger
Greed in the Sun as Castigliano, aka 'La betterave'
Tonio Kröger as Polizist Petersen
Backfire as Karl Fehrman

1963

Banana Peel as Raymond Lachard
Enough Rope as Melchior Kimmel
The Threepenny Opera as Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum

1962

The Terror of Doctor Mabuse as Kriminalkommissar Lohmann
The Longest Day as Sgt. Kaffekanne
Redhead as Kramer

1961

The Green Archer as Abel Bellamy
Via Mala as Jonas Lauretz
Auf Wiedersehen as Angelo Pirrone

1960

Crook and the Cross as Paul Wittkowski
The High Life as Docteur Kölling
Lovers Woods as General

1959

Duel with Death as Dag sen.
Grand Hotel as Preysing
Twelve Hours by the Clock as Monsieur Blanche
Old Heidelberg as Doktor Jüttner
The Day the Rains Came as Dr. Albert Maurer
Jons und Erdme as Smailus
Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee as Johannes Grohmann / Dr. Brand

1958

Rosemary as Bruster
Grabenplatz 17 as Titu Goritsch
Wet Asphalt as Jupp
Der Pauker as Freddy Blei
The Girl with the Cat Eyes as Tessmann - Katjas Vater

1957

Der tolle Bomberg as Gustav-Eberhard Mühlberg
Too Many Lovers as Edmond Petersen
He Who Must Die as Patriarcheas

1956

Waldwinter as Gerstenberg
The Girl from Flanders as Rittmeister Kupfer

1955

Das Forsthaus in Tirol as Bäuerle, Kaufmann
Der dunkle Stern as Deltorri
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe as Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge
Mr. Arkadin as First Policeman - Munich
What Am I? as Self

1954

Double Destiny as Mittelmeier
Ewiger Walzer as Gawrinoff

1953

Ein Herz spielt falsch as Briefüberbringer
Arlette Conquers Paris as Manager Edmond Duval
Married En Route as Herr Mengwasser

1952

Der Tag vor der Hochzeit as Rundfunkreporter

1951

Decision Before Dawn as German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)

1950

Die Kreuzlschreiber as Lustiger Bauernbursche mit der Zither.

1949

1948

The Berliner as Otto Normalverbraucher
BAMBI Awards as Self

Writing