FrameThrower · Actors · Gert Fröbe
Gert Fröbe
5 films · 267 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1960–1977
Born 25 February 1913 · Zwickau, Germany · died 5 September 1988
Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst, and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 267 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1960–1977
- Bavarian Order of Merit1982
- Order of Karl Valentin1976
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1973
- Silver Shell for Best Actor1961
How their films are shot
Measured across 267 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Gert takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 267 frames from Gert Fröbe's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.