Fröbe and Collins seemed to have very similar voice colors. When Auric roars "-SPRAAAAYYYY INTO THE ATMOSPHEEEAAAAAH!", its all larger than life and absolutely great!

Fröbe and Collins seemed to have very similar voice colors. But when Auric roars "-SPRAAAAYYYY INTO THE ATMOSPHEEEAAAAAH!", its all larger than life and absolutely great!

It's fun to watch Fröbe play the heroic good guy, as intrepid Inspector Lohmann in those Doktor Mabuse thrillers from the early 1960s especially in the original German (with English subtitles).
I wish more titles from the Mabuse series were available in good-quality video editions here in the USA Excellent editions of
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
and
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
(1962 remake) were released here, but the other Mabuse flicks of the '60s have gotten the short end of the stick.
Send her to the snakes!

I had originally seen GF dubbed in German, where Fröbe voiced himself. And believe me, I know Fröbe's voice not just from GF. But after buying first a VHS tape of the original English version of GF and the DVD after that, it still took me years to find out that it was not Gert himself who voiced the English part.
I read somewhere that the words "except: CRIME" were indeed spoken by Fröbe, though.
Ceterum censeo OCTOPUSSY esse delendam.

He actually looks like he could have been a pretty decent Goldfinger himself when he's doing the voice.
"Security - release the badgers."