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 Adventures", put the Baron character in a science fiction setting; the novel was serialized in "The Electrical Experimenter" from May 1915 to February 1917. Pierre Henri Cami's character Baron de Crac, a French soldier and courtier under Louis XV, is an imitation of the Baron Munchausen stories. In 1998, the British game designer James Wallis used the Baron character to create a multi-player storytelling game, "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen", in which players improvise Munchausen-like first-person stories while overcoming objections and other interruptions from opponents. The American writer Peter David had the Baron narrate an original short story, "Diego