
He is five feet (1.52 m) tall, has blue eyes, red hair, and a passion for his tan. In the novel, Auric Goldfinger is a 42-year-old from Riga, Latvia, who emigrated to Britain in 1937 at the age of 20. After several years, the ban was lifted, as it was found that Fröbe likely saved the lives of two Jews by hiding them in his basement during the war. However, he left the party before the outbreak of World War II. Goldfinger was banned in Israel after it was revealed that Fröbe had been a member of the Nazi Party.


In the German version, Fröbe dubbed himself back again. Fröbe, who did not speak English well, was dubbed in the film by Michael Collins, an English actor. Īuric Goldfinger was played by German actor Gert Fröbe. Bond, I expect you to die" was voted the number one best moment in the James Bond film franchise in a 2013 Sky Movies poll. The sequence where Goldfinger has Bond strapped to a table with a laser and delivers the often homaged line "No, Mr. In a poll on IMDb, Auric Goldfinger was voted the most sinister James Bond villain, beating (in order) Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Dr.

In 2003, the American Film Institute declared Auric Goldfinger the 49th-greatest villain in the past 100 years of film. According to a 1965 Forbes article and The New York Times, the Goldfinger persona was based on gold mining magnate Charles W. Fleming chose the name to commemorate the architect Ernő Goldfinger, who had built his home in Hampstead near Fleming's it is possible, though unlikely, that he disliked Goldfinger's style of architecture and destruction of Victorian terraces and decided to name a memorable villain after him. His first name, Auric, is an adjective meaning "of gold". Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's 1959 seventh James Bond novel, Goldfinger, and the 1964 film it inspired (the third in the James Bond series).
