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 Blood (film) Baron Blood (film) Baron Blood () is a 1972 horror film directed by Mario Bava. Peter Kleist (Antonio Cantafora) is an American who arrives in Austria to take a break from his college studies and to look up his family's history. At the airport he is greeted by his uncle, Karl Hummel (Massimo Girotti), who invites him to stay at his house. Peter asks Karl about his great-grandfather, Baron Otto Von Kleist. Karl explains that the Baron's name still spreads fear among the local people for he was a notorious sadist who tortured and murdered over 100 of the villagers,