Born February 25, 1913 in Planitz, Saxony, Germany.
His birth name was Karl-Gerhart Froeber Gert Frobe died September
5,1988 of a heart attack in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
Gert Frobe notched up over 100 film appearances, predominantly
in German language productions.
He will forever be remembered by Western audiences as the
bombastic meglomaniac "Auric Goldfinger" trying to kill Sean
Connery and irradiate the vast US gold reserves within Fort
Knox in the spectacular 1964 James Bond film GOLDFINGER.
Received much grief throughout his postwar career for having
been a member of the Nazi Party before 1945, although it was
revealed that Gert Frobe was (paradoxically) involved in hiding
German Jews from the Gestapo.
Gert Frobe's other notable credits include...
