Goldfinger

Goldfinger Cast List

Sean Connery

Sean Connery is a Scottish actor who is perhaps best known for originating the role of James Bond. After a series of odd jobs, service in the Navy, and a brief bodybuilding career, Connery began working backstage in the theater. His first role was in the ensemble of the stage musical South Pacific, and he became an avid theater lover.

Soon enough he was working in films, playing leading roles in a BBC Television version of Anna Karenina, and a Disney movie. His breakout role was as Bond, in the first five films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice. Later, he would play Bond in Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again.

During the Bond years, Connery also starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and The Hill. After a while, Connery grew tired of playing James Bond, and his other films include The Man Who Would be King, The Wind and the Lion, Robin and Marian, Murder on the Orient Express, Time Bandits, The Untouchables (for which he won an Academy Award), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Dragonheart, First Knight, The Avengers, and Finding Forrester.

Gert Frobe

Gert Frobe was a German film actor, perhaps best known for playing Goldfinger. His other films include The Threepenny Opera, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.

Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman is an English actress, famous for her roles in The Avengers, Goldfinger, Shalako, and Jason and the Argonauts. Other films include A Night to Remember, Life at the Top, Something Big, and Bridget Jones' Diary.

Shirley Eaton

Shirley Eaten was an English actress, model, and sex symbol, often called "the cockney blonde bombshell." Her role as Jill Masterson is her most famous, and her other films include the 1965 version of Ten Little Indians, The Girl Hunters, and Eight on the Lam.

Cec Linder

Cec Linder was a Canadian film and television actor known for his role on the BBC show Quatermass and the Pit. His films include Goldfinger, Lolita, A Touch of Class, and Atlantic City.

Harold Sakata

Harold Sakata was a Japanese-American Olympic weightlifter and professional wrestler. He won a silver medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics for weightlifting and appeared in a variety of films throughout the 60s and 70s.

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