Fritz Rasp
Actor
Biography
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Fritz Heinrich Rasp (13 May 1891; Bayreuth – 30 November 1976; Gräfelfing) was a German film actor who appeared in 104 films between 1916 and 1976.
His most notable film roles were J.J. Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (1931), as Meinert in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and as "Der Schmale" ("The Thin Man") in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927). Many of the scenes in which he appears in the latter film are part of the Metropolis footage long believed lost until their recovery in 2008.
Rasp's obituary in Der Spiegel described him as "the German film villain in service, for over 60 years." He played numerous scoundrels or shady characters during the Golden Age of German cinema in the 1920s. He is considered to be one of the most successful film villains in German film history.
Filmography
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Meinert 1929
Woman in the Moon
as Walt Turner 1929
Spies
as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov 1928
The 3 Penny Opera
as Peachum 1931
Warning Shadows
as Diener 1923
Fellowship of the Frog
as Ezra Maitland 1959
The Black Sheep
as Lord Kingsley 1960
The Love of Jeanne Ney
as Khalibiev 1927
The Terrible People
as Lord Godley Long 1960
The Strange Countess
as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle 1961
Secret of the Red Orchid
as Tanner 1962
Emil and the Detectives
as Grundeis 1931
The Red Circle
as Froyant 1960
Pinkus's Shoe Palace
1916
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Barrymore 1937
Paracelsus
as der Magister 1943