Harry Froboess

Harry Froboess
Born	Harry Arias Froboess 23.Okt.1899 Dresden, Germany
Died	12.Jan.1985 Baar Switzerland
Occupation	Diver, stuntman, "Bademeister der Herzen" Schausteller
Spouse(s)	Hertha Froboess (born 02.Jul.1906 in Berlin as Emma Albertine Hertha Müller, died 08.Nov.1975 also in Baar Switzerland)
Awards	almost twice olympic champion

Friedrich Harald August Froboess (1899–1985) born on 10.23.1899 in Dresden, Germany, was a German stunt diver, and high diver.

Biography[]

Diving from an early age, his mother taught him to be a "jumping fish" and his father taught him gymnastics. Froboess won many championships. He did stunt doubling for many stars in silent film. In the end he could only compete with himself jumping from higher and higher bridges and towers into water, finally culminating in a jumped 361 feet (110 m) into Lake Constance from the airship Graf Zeppelin on June 22, 1936. This record still stands in Guinness World Records. Froboess is rumored to have taken part in over 400 movies, though most of his prominent credits were in Hollywood films.

He wrote a book about waterdiving and painted pictures (one displayed at The Gallery of Modern Art in New York, His wife Hertha Froboess was also a high diver.

Stunt filmography[]

• Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)
• Christoph Columbus (1923)
• Harry Hill, der Herr der Welt (1923)
• (1925)
• Am Rande der Welt (English: At the Edge of the World) (1927)
• (1929)
• The Blue Angel (1930)
• The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
• Queen Christina (1933)
• The Sea Hawk (1940)
• The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
• Against All Flags (1952)
• The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
• River of No Return (1954)
• The Man from Laramie (1955)
• The Alamo (1960)
• The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

References[]

External links[]

• Harry Froboess at IMDb
• Harry Froboess - stuntman from the early days
• Article (german) with Pictures

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