21 Facts About Auric Goldfinger

Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's 1959 seventh James Bond novel, Goldfinger, and the 1964 film it inspired.

Auric Goldfinger's first name, Auric, is an adjective meaning "of gold".

The sequence where Auric Goldfinger has Bond strapped to a table with a laser and delivers the often homaged line "No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die" was voted the number one best moment in the James Bond film franchise in a 2013 Sky Movies poll.

Auric Goldfinger was banned in Israel after it was revealed that Frobe had been a member of the Nazi Party.

Auric Goldfinger's name was borrowed from Ian Fleming's neighbour in his Hampstead home, architect Erno Auric Goldfinger, and his character bears some resemblance.

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Erno Goldfinger consulted his lawyers when the book was published, prompting Fleming to suggest renaming the character "Goldprick", but Goldfinger eventually settled out of court in return for his legal costs, six copies of the novel, and an agreement that the character's first name 'Auric' would always be used.

Auric Goldfinger is typically a German-Jewish name, and the protagonists of the novel know this, but neither Bond nor Mr Du Pont think Auric Goldfinger is Jewish.

Auric Goldfinger is the treasurer of SMERSH, a Soviet counterintelligence agency, which is Bond's nemesis.

Auric Goldfinger tells Bond he has done so with four Mafia heads at the end of the novel.

Auric Goldfinger is obsessed with gold, going so far as to have yellow-bound erotic photographs, and have his lovers painted head to toe in gold so that he can make love to gold.

Bond figures out how Auric Goldfinger is managing this, and blackmails him by forcing him to admit his deception.

Auric Goldfinger is an avid golfer, but is known at his club for being a smooth cheater there,.

Auric Goldfinger loses the final hole and the match for playing a ball that does not belong to him.

In both the novel and film, Auric Goldfinger is aided in his crimes by his manservant, Oddjob, a monstrously strong Korean who ruthlessly eliminates any threat to his employer's affairs.

Bond learns that Auric Goldfinger makes dead drops of gold bars for SMERSH along the way, and that his car's bodywork is 18-carat, solid white gold under the ploy that the added weight is armour plating.

Bond wakes to find that Auric Goldfinger is going to take him up on his offer after all, and makes him his prisoner and secretary.

Bond and Auric Goldfinger engage in a brief struggle, during which Bond is seized by a violent rage for the first time in his life, strangling Auric Goldfinger to death with his bare hands.

Auric Goldfinger is defeated when he is tricked by Bond after attempting to cheat.

Auric Goldfinger is shown to take sadistic pleasure in killing his enemies, which he accomplishes in elaborate ways.

Auric Goldfinger's plan is to detonate a small dirty bomb within the gold bullion depository at Fort Knox.

Bond, at this point held captive by Auric Goldfinger, is able to smuggle the details of the operation out to his CIA associate Felix Leiter and, taken along on the operation by Auric Goldfinger, ultimately thwarts the operation by defusing the atomic device.