Gert Fröbe

Gert Fröbe

Birth : 1913-02-25, Zwickau, Germany

Death : 1988-09-05

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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, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Gert Fröbe
Gert Fröbe
Gert Fröbe
Gert Fröbe

Movies

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Jürgen Krass (archive footage)
The Exotic Locations of 'Goldfinger'
Goldfinger (archive footage)
A tour of the exotic locations of 'Goldfinger'.
Best Ever Bond
Auric Goldfinger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Bond Girls Are Forever
Auric Goldfinger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ursula Andress and Diamonds Are Forever's Jill St. John), the documentary traced the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy (but still decorative) participant in the action.
Auf ein Neues
Self - Narrator
Aus familiären Gründen
Writer
Alte Sünden rosten nicht
Konsul Heimann
August der Starke
König August der Starke
Der Garten
Mr. Hayward
The Falcon
Jug Bogdan
Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.
Umbrella Coup
Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
Bloodline
Inspector Max Hornung
When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
Noch 'ne Oper
Man on the street
A musical comedy written by Heinz Erhardt and his son Gero Erhardt.
Der Tiefstapler
Felix von Korn
The German ambassador to a small republic is expecting the visit of his Minister of Development. When the visit is called off, the Ambassador persuades two tourists to take over the role of Ambassador.
Der Schimmelreiter
Tede Volkerts, der alte Deichgraf
Als wär's heut' gewesen
Writer
Als wär's heut' gewesen
Self
Tod oder Freiheit
Graf von Buttlar
The Serpent's Egg
Inspector Bauer
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Das Gesetz des Clans
Philip Brown
Sonntagsgeschichten
Innkeeper
Death Rite
Vestar
While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area.
Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient
Traugott Wurster / Theodor Wurster
Doctor Justice
Max Orwall / Georges Orwall
Based on the title character, a World Health Organisation (WHO) doctor and martial arts expert who fights bad guys, created in 1970 by scriptwriter Jean Ollivier and artist Carlo Marcello for "Pif Gadget", a weekly kids' comic book magazine in France.
Shadowman
Sorbier
Clad in a featureless red mask, The Man Without A Face is involved in a single-minded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of Louis Feuillade.
And Then There Were None
Wilhelm Blore
Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing various unpunished crimes, which sets off a series of murders in the hotel.
Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
Hotzenplotz
Ludwig
Father Hoffmann
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Morgenstern am Abend
Self
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Mr. Kessel
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Willi Schickel & Horst Muller
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Baron Bomburst
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Dear Caroline
Le docteur Belhomme
Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love, despite her arranged marriage to an older politician.
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Professor Siegfried von Bulow
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
I Killed Rasputin
Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
Triple Cross
Colonel Steinhager
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Is Paris Burning?
Von Choltitz
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Ganovenehre
Importen-Paul
The Upper Hand
Walter
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
Das Liebeskarussell
Emil Claasen
An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
Colonel Manfred von Holstein
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
A High Wind in Jamaica
Dutch Captain
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Goldfinger
Auric Goldfinger
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Backfire
Karl Fehrman
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
Tonio Kröger
Polizist Petersen
This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks. The highlight of the film is the expert lensing by cinematographer Wolf Wirth. Erika Mann, the daughter of the late poet and author, collaborated with Ennio Flaiano on the screenplay.
Greed in the Sun
Castigliano, aka 'La betterave'
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper until the climactic fight.
The Threepenny Opera
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Heute kündigt mir mein Mann
Alfred Paulsen
Banana Peel
Raymond Lachard
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.
Enough Rope
Melchior Kimmel
Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
The Longest Day
Sgt. Kaffekanne
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Kriminalkommissar Lohmann
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.
Redhead
Kramer
Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.
Auf Wiedersehen
Angelo Pirrone
Via Mala
Jonas Lauretz
The Green Archer
Abel Bellamy
The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy (Gerd Fröbe, in fine intimidating form) is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor.Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie (Karin Dor) arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Lohmann
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
Le Bois des amants
General
Bis dass das Geld euch scheidet
Jupp Grapsch
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Kras
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
Soldatensender Calais
Der Chef
The High Life
Docteur Kölling
Crook and the Cross
Paul Wittkowski
With the help of God, the loveable safecracker Paul Wittkowski – aka “Cracker-Paulie” – manages to escape the clutches of the cops. He dresses up as a priest and ends up in a village, whose pastor is in dispute with an influential businessman. To help the pastor and a young widow, Paulie has to use his own special abilities. This work leads him back to the path of righteousness. He contacts the police and, after serving his time, starts a new life with the widow.
Old Heidelberg
Doktor Jüttner
Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
Johannes Grohmann / Dr. Brand
The Day the Rains Came
Dr. Albert Maurer
A motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havok on a town, until one of their members begins to have second thoughts after a run-in with the police.
Menschen im Hotel
Preysing
Duel with Death
Dag sen.
12 heures d'horloge
Monsieur Blanche
Prisoner of the Volga
Professor
Prisoner of the Volga
Jons und Erdme
Smailus
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.
Nick Knattertons Abenteuer
Hugo
The Girl with the Cat Eyes
Tessmann - Katjas Vater
A police commissioner investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an inspector.
Der Pauker
Freddy Blei
Grabenplatz 17
Titu Goritsch
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
Rosemary
Bruster
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Schrott
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
Wet Asphalt
Jupp
In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.
Not Delivered
Hans
After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So that he and Jacqueline can make a fresh start he agrees to take on one more job for a large sum of cash, but he betrays his employer.
Das Herz von St. Pauli
Jabowski
Too Many Lovers
Edmond
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
Der tolle Bomberg
Gustav-Eberhard Mühlberg
He Who Must Die
Patriarcheas
Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.
The Girl and the Legend
Mr.Gillis
London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a scoundrel who blames his father for losing his position at the Court ...
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
Ritter
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...
Waldwinter
Gerstenberg
Ein Herz schlägt für Erika
Heubacher
The Girl from Flanders
Rittmeister Kupfer
A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.
Dunja
Das Forsthaus in Tirol
Bäuerle, Kaufmann
Heroes and Sinners
Hermann
A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds. His cohorts include a Nazi collaborator, a German refugee, and the white mistress of a prominent Liberian. A romance develops between the ex-pilot and the aforementioned mistress. Meanwhile, one of the conspirators (Curt Jurgens) has a last-minute attack of conscience, effectively queering the deal. The steamier romantic passages in Les Heros sont Fatigues had to be trimmed for American consumption.
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge
Der dunkle Stern
Deltorri
Special Delivery
Olaf
Complications ensue when a U.S. diplomat discovers that he has a baby on his hands and an undercover gal in his arms.
Mr. Arkadin
First Policeman - Munich
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Salto Mortale
Jan
Double Destiny
Mittelmeier
Mannequins für Rio
Lobos
Grim melodrama about girls sent to South America to be used by crooks.
Das Kreuz am Jägersteig
Kobbe
Morgengrauen
Ewiger Walzer
Gawrinoff
Die kleine Stadt will schlafen gehen
Oskar Blume
In a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about their written messages. A clever sculptor uses the opportunity to play a prank.
Hochzeit auf Reisen
Herr Mengwasser
Arlette Conquers Paris
Manager Edmond Duval
Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht
Gondoliere
Ein Herz spielt falsch
Briefüberbringer
A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live.
Der Tag vor der Hochzeit
Rundfunkreporter
Decision Before Dawn
German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
Die Kreuzlschreiber
Lustiger Bauernbursche mit der Zither.
Nach Regen scheint Sonne
Konstantin
The Berliner
Otto Normalverbraucher
Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.