Gert Fröbe(1913-1988)
- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
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 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 Ngón Tay Vàng (1964). However, due to Fröbe's thick German accent,
his voice was actually dubbed by English actor, Michael Collins.
While commonly perceived as cold hearted & humourless from his Ngón Tay Vàng (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), Chiếc Xe Bay (1968), and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 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).
While commonly perceived as cold hearted & humourless from his Ngón Tay Vàng (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), Chiếc Xe Bay (1968), and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 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).
