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 and the Baron", in 2018. Sadler's Wells Theatre produced the pantomime "Baron Munchausen; or, Harlequin's Travels" in London in 1795, starring the actor-singer-caricaturist Robert Dighton as the Baron; another pantomime based on the Raspe text, "Harlequin Munchausen, or the Fountain of Love", was produced in London in 1818. Herbert Eulenberg made the Baron the main character of a 1900 play, "Münchhausen", and the Expressionist writer Walter Hasenclever turned the stories into a comedy, "Münchhausen", in 1934. Grigori Gorin used the Baron as the hero of his 1976 play "That Very Munchausen"; a film version was made in 1980. "Baron Prášil",