From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
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| Birth Location | Bayreuth, Germany |
|---|---|
| Born | 1891-05-13 |
| Died | 1976-11-30 |
Movies
Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
as The Thin Man
1984
Dorothea Merz
as Der alte Merz
1976
Lina Braake
as Gustaf Haertlein
1975
Tausend Francs Belohnung
as Major Gedouard
1974
1972
Fritz Rasp Interview
as Himself
1972
Die Weber
as Der alte Hilse
1971
Die Verspätung
as Der Sargtischler
1969
1966
Volpone oder Der Fuchs
as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
1966
Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius
as Shunderson
1965
Herodes und Mariamne
as Sameas
1965
Caroussel of Passion
as Schlossverwalter
1963
Maria Stuart
as Shrewsbury
1963
Black-White-Red Four Poster
as Pfarrer
1962
Secret of the Red Orchid
as Tanner
1962
The Strange Countess
as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
1961
The Black Sheep
as Lord Kingsley
1960
The Terrible People
as Lord Godley Long
1960
Bezaubernde Julia
as Pierre
1960
The Red Circle
as Froyant
1960
Gericht über Las Casas
as Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla
1960
Der Mann, der Donnerstag war
as Freitag
1960
Kasimir und Karoline
as Speer
1959
Fellowship of the Frog
as Ezra Maitland
1959
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
as Krutizkij
1959
Das mittlere Fenster
as Angus
1959
Johanna aus Lothringen
as Vater Massieu
1959
Land, das meine Sprache spricht
as Arzt
1959
Der öffentliche Ankläger
as Sanson
1958
1958
Augsburger Puppenkiste - Cenodoxus
as voice
1958
Don Carlos
as Großinquisitor
1957
Zwölftausend
as Minister von Treysa
1956
Wo war David Preston?
as Inspector Hemingway
1956
Oberst Chabert
as Privatsekretär Delbecq
1956
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
as Dr. Frobisher
1956
Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa
as Jacob Marley
1955
Der Cornet
as Großwesir
1955
Die Heiratskomödie
as Stepan
1955
Gottes Utopia
as Bussaco
1955
Der Revisor
as Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika
1955
Magic Fire
as Pfistermeister
1955
Madame Aurélie
as Papet
1955
Squirrel
as Herr Süpplein
1955
Die Bauernpassion
as Scharfrichter
1955
Hokuspokus
as Diener
1953
Haus des Lebens
as Pädophiler
1952
Skandal in der Botschaft
as Inspector Kick
1950
Somewhere in Berlin
as Waldemar Hunke
1946
Paracelsus
as der Magister
1943
Alarm
as Feinmechaniker Stülken
1941
Leidenschaft
as Boddin
1940
Frau im Strom
as Wendelin
1939
It Was a Gay Ballnight
as Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow
1939
Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht?
as Kelly
1938
Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen
as Theo - Haushofmeister
1938
Togger
as Dublanc
1937
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Barrymore
1937
Onkel Bräsig
as Slusohr
1936
Die Leuchter des Kaisers
as Stanislaus
1936
Lockspitzel Asew
as Asew
1935
Lockvogel
as de Groot, ihr Vormund
1934
Klein-Dorrit
as Flintwinch
1934
Charley's Aunt
as Lord Babberley
1934
Schuß am Nebelhorn
as Sebastian Geyer
1934
Grenzfeuer
as Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer
1934
The Judas of Tyrol
as Raffl
1933
Der sündige Hof
as Veit
1933
The Ringer
as Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister
1932
The Cruel Girlfriend
as Professor Bock
1932
The four from Bob 13
as Schmidt
1932
Emil and the Detectives
as Grundeis
1931
The Pranks
as Direktor Rappis
1931
The Squeeker
as Frank Sutton
1931
Tropical Nights
as Jones
1931
The 3 Penny Opera
as Peachum
1931
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as Smerdjakow
1931
The Great Longing
as Himself
1930
Dreyfus
as Major du Paty de Clam
1930
Three Around Edith
as Pistol
1929
Woman in the Moon
as Walt Turner
1929
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Meinert
1929
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Stapleton
1929
1929
Docks of Hamburg
as The Doctor
1928
Spies
as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
1928
Schinderhannes
as Heinrich Benzel
1928
The Love of Jeanne Ney
as Khalibiev
1927
The Last Waltz
as Linnsky
1927
Children's Souls Accuse You
as Heinrich Voss
1927
Metropolis
as The Thin Man
1927
Superfluous People
as Chirikov
1926
Qualen der Nacht
as Kellner
1926
The House of Lies
as Molwik
1926
1925
Comedians
as Liebhaber
1925
1925
1924
Warning Shadows
as Diener
1923
Time Is Money
as François
1923
1923
Jugend
as Amandus
1922
1916
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