Fritz Rasp
Actor
- Born
- May 13, 1891 · Bayreuth, Germany
- Died
- November 30, 1976 (age 85)
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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.
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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.
Known for
Metropolis
January 10, 1927
Diary of a Lost Girl
September 27, 1929
Woman in the Moon
October 15, 1929
Spies
March 22, 1928
The 3 Penny Opera
February 18, 1931
The Wildcat
April 14, 1921
Fellowship of the Frog
September 4, 1959
Warning Shadows
October 16, 1923
The Black Sheep
December 19, 1960
The Love of Jeanne Ney
December 6, 1927
Emil and the Detectives
December 2, 1931
The Terrible People
August 25, 1960
Acting111
- 1976Dorothea Merz as Der alte Merz
- 1975Lina Braake as Gustaf Haertlein
- 1974Tausend Francs Belohnung as Major Gedouard
- 1972Pero and Jovo
- 1972Fritz Rasp Interview as Himself
- 1971Die Weber as Der alte Hilse
- 1969Die Verspätung as Der Sargtischler
- 1966Hocuspocus
- 1966Volpone oder Der Fuchs as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
- 1965Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius as Shunderson