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
Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett 2001. Michael Birkett died in 2015 when the family title devolved upon the 3rd and present baron, his only child and heir, Tom Birkett, a cinematographer. Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett (22 October 1929 – 3 April 2015) was a British film producer/director, author and hereditary peer. The only son of Norman, 1st Baron Birkett by his wife, Ruth ("née" Nilsson), Birkett attended Stowe before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge (MA). On 10 February 1962, he succeeded his father as the 2nd Baron Birkett, a UK Peerage title created in 1958. Birkett produced Sir