• Name: Gert Frobe
  • Date of Birth: February 25, 1912
  • Place of Birth: Oberplanitz [now Zwickau] , Saxony, Germany
Mini-bio: Tall, portly built German born actor (and talented violinist) who notched up over 100 film appearances, predominantly in German-language productions. He will forever be remembered by Western audiences...( read more) as the bombastic megalomaniac "Auric Goldfinger" trying to kill Sean Connery and irradiate the vast US gold reserves within Fort Knox in the spectacular "James Bond" film Goldfinger (1964). However, due to Fröbe's thick German accent, his voice was actually dubbed by English actor, Michael Collins.

Whilst commonly perceived as cold hearted & humourless from his Goldfinger (1964) portrayal, quite to the contrary, Fröbe was a jovial man and a wonderful comedic performer. His light hearted talents can be best viewed in Berliner Ballade (1948), Der Tag vor der Hochzeit (1952), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965). Fröbe also portrayed dogged detective Kriminalkommissar Kras/Lohmann pursuing the evil Dr. Mabuse in Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (1960), Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse (1961) and Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1962).
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  • Which of these villainous actors does not belong with the rest?  Answer »
  • Which German actor played a soldier in "The Longest Day" and a villain in "Goldfinger"? 1. Richard Munch 2. Wolfgang Preiss 3. Gert Frobe 4. Hans Christian Blech  Answer »
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  • Gert Frobe (Goldfinger) also worked on another Cubby Broccoli film adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel. Name that film!  Answer »

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