TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis.
latimes.comSubmitted by NYstate t3_119hhpm in todayilearned
zincdeclercq t1_j9mcav0 wrote
That’s gotta be the most unfortunate name ever. It sounds like dude’s mom named him after a wacky alien sidekick on a cartoon.