Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeɐt ˈfʁøːbə]) (February 25, 1913 – September 5, 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.
Born in Zwickau, Fröbe was a member of the Nazi Party before and during World War II. However,...
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Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeɐt ˈfʁøːbə]) (February 25, 1913 – September 5, 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.
Born in Zwickau, Fröbe was a member of the Nazi Party before and during World War II. However, he aided German Jews by hiding them from the Gestapo. Because of his former membership in the Nazi Party, the film Goldfinger was initially banned in Israel until he was publicly thanked for his help by a Jewish family.
Fröbe gained fame in one of the first German movies made after World War II, called Berliner Ballade (The Ballad of Berlin, 1948). In 1958 he was cast as the villain in the Swiss-German film Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight), which was novelised by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. His role as an...
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