Gert Fröbe

Gert Fröbe (1913–1988) was a German actor who began as a musician and theatre scene painter before training for the stage. His breakthrough screen role came in Berliner Ballade in 1948, playing the returning serviceman Otto Normalverbraucher.

Fröbe developed a career in German and international cinema, appearing in films by Orson Welles and Jules Dassin as well as thrillers and comedies. He became particularly familiar internationally as Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger (1964). His performances ranged from threatening industrialists and patriarchs to comic characters in films such as Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.