Tall, portly built German born actor (and talented violinist) who notched up over 100 film appearances, predominantly in German language productions. He will forever be remembered by Western audiences as the bombastic megalomaniac "Auric Goldfinger" trying to kill Sean Connery and irradiate the vast US gold reserves within Fort Knox in the spectacular "James Bond" film Goldfinger. However, due to Frobe's thick German accent, his voice was actually dubbed by English actor, Michael Collins!

Whilst commonly perceived as cold hearted & humourless from his Goldfinger portrayal, quite to the contrary, Frobe was a jovial man and a wonderful comedic performer. His light hearted talents can be best viewed in Berliner Ballade, Tag vor der Hochzeit, Der, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes. Frobe also portrayed dogged detective Kriminalkommissar Kras/Lohmann pursuing the evil Dr. Mabuse in The Shadow vs. the Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, The Return of Dr. Mabuse and The Terror of Doctor Mabuse.


Received much criticism throughout his postwar career for having been a member of the Nazi party in Germany during World War II, although it was later revealed that he was using his membership as a cover to hide Jews from the Gestapo in order to smuggle them out of Germany. Was a noted reciter of poetry, especially of Christian Morgenstern' and Joachim Ringelnatz. Son of Karl-Otto Fröbe, a shoemaker, and his wife Alma. Had two sons, Utz and Andreas.