Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe 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 World War II. He was initially a violinist, but he abandoned it for cabaret and theater work. He joined the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in 1929 at the age of 16 and left it again in 1937. However, he aided two 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 the family came forward and thanked him for saving their lives. Fröbe gained fame in one of the first German movies made after World War II, called Berliner Ballade . His role as "Otto Normalverbraucher" , became a German term equivalent to Average Joe or Fred Bloggs.
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| Birthdate: | February 25, 1913 |
| Birthplace: | Zwickau |
| Date of death: | September 5, 1988 |
| Height: | 6' 1" |
| Also known as: | Gert Frobe, Karl Gert Frobe |