Gert Fröbe
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When and where Gert Fröbe was born?

111 years
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Birth date
February 25, 19131913-02-25
Date of death
September 5, 1988 (75 years)1988-09-05
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Place of Birth
Germany
Occupation
Actor

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Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (German: ; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German film and stage actor. He is best known in English-speaking countries for his work as Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger, as Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as Hotzenplotz in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz and "Colonel Manfred von Holstein" in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.

Fröbe was born in Oberplanitz, today part of Zwickau. He was initially a violinist, but he abandoned it for Kabarett and theatre work.

He joined the Nazi Party in 1929 at the age of 16 and left in 1937. During the Nazi regime, he aided two German Jews by hiding them from the Gestapo. In September 1944, the Nazis closed down theatres in Germany and he was drafted into the German Army, the Wehrmacht, where he served until the end of World War II.