Background
Diving from an early age, his mother taught him to be a "jumping fish" and his father taught him gymnastics.
Diving from an early age, his mother taught him to be a "jumping fish" and his father taught him gymnastics.
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 the Guinness book of records.
Froboess is rumored to have taken part in over 400 movies, though most of his prominent credits were in Hollywood films.
