Gert Fröbe Munich in September 1988 at age 75 from a heart attack. He was buried in Waldfriedhof cemetery, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausener, Bavaria. !colspan="3" style="background:#C1D8FF;"| James Bond 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
Baron Munchausen popular and much-quoted catchphrase, and by early 1933 "The Jack Pearl Show" was the second most popular series on American radio (after Eddie Cantor's program). Pearl attempted to adapt his portrayal to film in "Meet the Baron" in 1933, playing a modern character mistaken for the Baron, but the film was not a success. Pearl's popularity gradually declined between 1933 and 1937, though he attempted to revive the Baron character several times before ending his last radio series in 1951. For a 1972 Caedmon Records recording of some of the stories, Peter Ustinov voiced the Baron. A review in "The