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Fritz Rasp

Fritz Rasp

Acting1891Bayreuth, Germany

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.

Acting History

1976
Dorothea Merz
as Der alte Merz
1975
Lina Braake
as Gustaf Haertlein
1974
Tausend Francs Belohnung
as Major Gedouard
1972
1971
Die Weber
as Der alte Hilse
Der Kommissar
TVas Herr Sistig• 1 eps
1970
Scene of the Crime
TVas Jean Wimper
1969
Die Verspätung
as Der Sargtischler
Gestern gelesen
TVas Vinvence van Hoek
1966
Volpone oder Der Fuchs
as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
1965
1963
Maria Stuart
as Shrewsbury
Caroussel of Passion
as Schlossverwalter
1962
German Film Award
TVas Self• 1 eps
1961
The Strange Countess
as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
1960
The Red Circle
as Froyant
The Black Sheep
as Lord Kingsley
The Terrible People
as Lord Godley Long
Gericht über Las Casas
as Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla
1959
Fellowship of the Frog
as Ezra Maitland
Johanna aus Lothringen
as Vater Massieu
1958
1957
Don Carlos
as Großinquisitor
1956
Wo war David Preston?
as Inspector Hemingway
Zwölftausend
as Minister von Treysa
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
as Dr. Frobisher
Oberst Chabert
as Privatsekretär Delbecq
1955
Magic Fire
as Pfistermeister
Die Bauernpassion
as Scharfrichter
Der Cornet
as Großwesir
Der Revisor
as Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika
Squirrel
as Herr Süpplein
Gottes Utopia
as Bussaco
1953
Hokuspokus
as Diener
1952
Haus des Lebens
as Pädophiler
1950
Skandal in der Botschaft
as Inspector Kick
1946
Somewhere in Berlin
as Waldemar Hunke
1943
Paracelsus
as der Magister
1941
Alarm
as Feinmechaniker Stülken
1940
Leidenschaft
as Boddin
1939
It Was a Gay Ballnight
as Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow
Frau im Strom
as Wendelin
1938
Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen
as Theo - Haushofmeister
1937
Togger
as Dublanc
1936
Onkel Bräsig
as Slusohr
1935
1934
Charley's Aunt
as Lord Babberley
Little Dorrit
as Flintwinch
Lockvogel
as de Groot, ihr Vormund
Schuß am Nebelhorn
as Sebastian Geyer
Grenzfeuer
as Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer
1933
1932
The Ringer
as Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister
The Cruel Girlfriend
as Professor Bock
1931
The Squeeker
as Frank Sutton
The Pranks
as Direktor Rappis
1930
Dreyfus
as Major du Paty de Clam
1929
Woman in the Moon
as Walt Turner
1928
Docks of Hamburg
as The Doctor
Spies
as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
Schinderhannes
as Heinrich Benzel
1927
Metropolis
as The Thin Man
The Last Waltz
as Linnsky
1926
1925
Comedians
as Liebhaber
1924
1923
Between Evening and Morning
as Friedhofsgärtner
Time Is Money
as François
1922
Jugend
as Amandus
1921
The Wildcat
as Solider (Uncredited)
1917
1916

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Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/13/1891
Day of Death
11/30/1976
Place of Birth
Bayreuth, Germany