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Gert Fröbe
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German actor (1913-1988)
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Gert Fröbe, born Karl Gerhart Fröbe on 25 February 1913 in Zwickau, Germany, was a German actor, film actor, stage actor, and voice actor. He began his work period in 1948 and was a student of Erich Ponto. Fröbe spoke German and French and played the violin. He was a member of the Nazi Party and was married to Tatjana Iwanow.
Fröbe received the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Silver Shell for Best Actor. He died of myocardial infarction, a natural cause, on 5 September 1988 in Munich.
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Film & TV
Zwickau, Germany
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gert Fröbe, licensed under CC-BY-SA,…
Known for
- Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse — Jürgen Krass (archive footage)2018
- The Exotic Locations of 'Goldfinger' — Goldfinger (archive footage)2006
- Otto – The Series — Verschiedene1995
- Auf ein Neues — Self - Narrator1988
- Showgeschichten — Self1986
- The Little Vampire — Geiermeier1986
- Alte Sünden rosten nicht — Konsul Heimann1985
- Die Schwarzwaldklinik — 100-jähriger Patient Theodor Katz1985
- August der Starke — König August der Starke1984
- The Falcon — Jug Bogdan1983
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Key facts
- Born
- Karl Gerhart Fröbe , ( 1913-02-25 ) 25 February 1913, Oberplanitz (near Zwickau ), Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
- Died
- 5 September 1988 (1988-09-05) (aged 75), Munich , West Germany
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1930s–1944 1948–1987
- Spouse s
- Karin Kuderer-Pistorius (1970–?), Beate Bach (1962–1968), Hannelore Görtz (1953–1959), Tatjana Iwanow, Clara Peter
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of death
- Munich
- Spouse
- Tatjana Iwanow
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Erich Ponto
- Instrument
- violin
- Image
- FM-2019-1-2-1-23 Niggl-Radloff-B-Gerd-Froebe-ONLINE.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1913-02-25
- date of death
- 1988-09-05
- Commons category
- Gert Fröbe
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Gert Fröbe
- birth name
- Karl Gerhart Fröbe
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- P8168
- Naylor
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe ( German: [ˈɡɛɐ̯t ˈfʁøːbə] ; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor who appeared in over 100, mostly German-produced films. He was best known in English-speaking countries for his work as the title character in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). Other international films include his role as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), as General Dietrich von Choltitz in Is Paris Burning? (1966), as Colonel Manfred von Holstein in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), and as Inspector Bauer in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977).
Fröbe was a three-time German Film Award nominee, twice for Best Leading Actor and once for Best Supporting Actor. In 1978, he won an honorary award for "outstanding individual contributions to the German cinema over the years."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gert Fröbe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.