Gert Fröbe Gert Fröbe Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a West 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
Baron Munchausen's Dream Baron Munchausen's Dream Baron Munchausen's Dream (), also known as Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen and Monsieur le Baron a trop bien dîné, is a 1911 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. After an evening of entertaining guests, an intoxicated Baron Munchausen goes to sleep only to experience a variety of disturbing and otherworldly dreams. Méliès greatly admired the Baron Munchausen stories created by Rudolf Erich Raspe, and may have used them as inspiration for his celebrated film "A Trip to the Moon". However, "Baron Munchausen's Dream" has little in common with the Baron character or his