Karl Gerhart Fröbe, known as Gert Fröbe, was a German actor. Considered one of the most important character actors in his country's cinema during his lifetime, he became an international star after portraying the titular villain Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. He subsequently played such roles as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), General Dietrich von Choltitz in Is Paris Burning? and Colonel Manfred von Holstein in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox, and is directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki. The screenplay was written by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall and Jack Seddon.