Word: frobe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rope's most striking asset is Gert Frobe, as a pig-eyed book seller who peers through inch-thick spectacles and proves to be a barrel of rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide...
...ravine. The coincidence of two dead wives materializing at bus stops piques the interest of Inspector Robert Hossein, a sadist who practices police brutality with chilling Gallic esprit. Soon accusations and counteraccusations begin to ricochet off the walls. Having committed a fairly perfect crime at the outset, Frobe takes murderous pride in his achievement. Though Ronet is guilty only of intent to murder, he feels responsible for his wife's suicide...
...exact a look-alike that he is afraid to leave the set except mustacheless and in mufti. The porcine, Prussian-looking fellow cast as General von Choltitz worries less, for during the past year he has got as many off-screen hisses as autograph requests. His name is Gert Frobe, but no one remembers him as anything but that malevolent archvillain in his most famed film. Gold finger...
...Paris Burning? boasts a luminous roster: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Orson Welles, Kirk Douglas (as George Patton) and Glenn Ford (Omar Bradley). But it is significant that the actor that Paramount and Seven Arts signed up first for their $6,000,000 epic is blubbery (230 Ibs.) Gert Frobe. And it was not just on the strength of his Goldfinger portrayal. Though his international following dates only from that role, the 52-year-old Frobe has some 80 film credits, five acting awards, and an infinite range-from the frightening psychopath in It Happened in Broad Daylight...
Raised in what is now the East German city of Zwickau (his mother still lives there, but they are allowed to exchange visits), Frobe was a violin prodigy and opera-set designer before he turned actor. During World War II, the man now cast as a German general never rose past the rank of corporal. He is convinced, however, that his empathic powers are limitless, for no role has eluded him yet. "I cannot stand on my hands," he says, "but I feel certain that if I were acting a part which required me to stand on my hands...