ACTOR

Gert Fröbe

1913 - 1988

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Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (German: [ˈɡɛɐ̯t ˈfʁøːbə] ; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gert Fröbe has received more than 1,642,039 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gert Fröbe is the 645th most popular actor (down from 514th in 2019), the 1,018th most popular biography from Germany (down from 803rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Actor.

Gert Fröbe is most famous for his role as James Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond films "You Only Live Twice" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gert Fröbes by language

Over the past year Gert Fröbe has had the most page views in the with 232,401 views, followed by English (187,975), and French (23,471). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (200.70%), Galician (69.16%), and Haitian (66.98%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gert Fröbe ranks 645 out of 13,578. Before him are Richard Wilson, Song Hye-rim, Anjelica Huston, Julie Walters, Lisa Kudrow, and John Gielgud. After him are William Fichtner, Sissy Spacek, Naomi Watts, Dwayne Johnson, Stefania Sandrelli, and Claudette Colbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Gert Fröbe ranks 51. Before him are Vinicius de Moraes, Muddy Waters, Aimé Césaire, Masanobu Fukuoka, Charles Trenet, and Mary Ainsworth. After him are Tito Gobbi, Mehmet Shehu, Xi Zhongxun, Jan Kubiš, Peter Cushing, and Roger Caillois. Among people deceased in 1988, Gert Fröbe ranks 28. Before him are Tibor Sekelj, Felix Wankel, Clifford D. Simak, Virginia Satir, Richard S. Castellano, and Hiroaki Sato. After him are Luis Barragán, Valerie Solanas, Christina Onassis, Farida of Egypt, Giuseppe Saragat, and Franz Josef Strauss.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gert Fröbe ranks 1,018 out of 7,253. Before him are Herbert Gille (1897), Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Emil Jellinek (1853), Hennig Brand (1630), and Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1597). After him are Hrotsvitha (935), Walter Röhrl (1947), Charles De Coster (1827), Christian Wirth (1885), Karl Bühler (1879), and Franz Rosenzweig (1886).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Gert Fröbe ranks 15. Before him are Nastassja Kinski (1961), Hildegard Knef (1925), Luise Rainer (1910), Horst Buchholz (1933), Hardy Krüger (1928), and Emmy Göring (1893). After him are Karin Schubert (1944), Lale Andersen (1905), Horst Tappert (1923), Erika Mann (1905), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), and Til Schweiger (1963).

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Television and Movie Roles

Goldfinger
Auric Goldfinger
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Sep 20o 19647.348 / 10
The Longest Day
Sgt. Kaffekanne
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Sep 25o 19627.588 / 10
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Baron Bomburst
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Dec 17o 19686.804 / 10