Name
Fritz Rasp
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1891-05-13
Deathday
1976-11-30 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Bayreuth, Germany
Biography
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.
Known For
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In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's ...
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A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but ...
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When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young...
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Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale....
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Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. S...
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Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as ...
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The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!...
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A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its ...
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Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons....
- 1927 Metropolis as The Thin Man
- 1929 Woman in the Moon as Walt Turner
- 1962 The Secret of the Red Orchid as Tanner
- 1931 Emil and the Detectives as Grundeis
- 1960 The Terrible People as Lord Godley Long
- 1928 Docks of Hamburg as The Doctor
- 1934 Charley's Aunt as Lord Babberley
- 1959 Fellowship of the Frog as Ezra Maitland
- 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl as Meinert
- 1931 The 3 Penny Opera as Peachum
- 1972 Pero and Jovo
- 1960 The Black Sheep as Lord Kingsley
- 1932 The Cruel Girlfriend as Professor Bock
- 1923 Warning Shadows as Diener
- 1931 The Squeeker as Frank Sutton
- 1927 The Love of Jeanne Ney as Khalibiev
- 1975 Lina Braake as Gustaf Haertlein
- 1958 Augsburger Puppenkiste - Cenodoxus – Der Doktor von Paris as Asteroth
- 1966 Hocuspocus
- 1972 Fritz Rasp Interview as Himself
- 1937 The Hound of the Baskervilles as Barrymore
- 1935 Lockspitzel Asew as Asew
- 1938 Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht? as Kelly
- 1960 The Red Circle as Froyant
- 1961 The Strange Countess as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
- 1965 Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius as Shunderson
- 1930 Dreyfus as Major du Paty de Clam
- 1939 It Was a Gay Ballnight as Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow
- 1952 Haus des Lebens as Pädophiler
- 1932 The Ringer as Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister
- 1931 The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov as Smerdjakow
- 1943 Paracelsus as der Magister
- 1962 Black-White-Red Four Poster as Pfarrer
- 1933 Der Judas von Tirol as Raffl
- 1938 Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen as Theo - Haushofmeister
- 1974 Tausend Francs Belohnung as Major Gedouard
- 1941 Alarm as Feinmechaniker Stülken
- 1953 Hokuspokus as Diener
- 1946 Somewhere in Berlin as Waldemar Hunke
- 1959 Land, das meine Sprache spricht as Arzt
- 1976 Dorothea Merz as Der alte Merz
- 1965 Herodes und Mariamne as Sameas
- 1937 Togger as Dublanc
- 1960 Bezaubernde Julia as Pierre
- 1934 Decoy as de Groot, ihr Vormund
- 1939 Frau im Strom as Wendelin
- 1960 Der Mann, der Donnerstag war as Freitag
- 1953 Die Mühle im Schwarzwäldertal
- 1928 Spies as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
- 1936 Die Leuchter des Kaisers as Stanislaus
- 1934 Little Dorrit as Flintwinch
- 1923 Time Is Money as François
- 1917 Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
- 1929 Spring Awakening
- 1929 Three Around Edith as Pistol
- 1959 Kasimir und Karoline as Speer
- 1930 The Great Passion as Himself
- 1966 Volpone oder Der Fuchs as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
- 1931 The Pranks as Direktor Rappis
- 1955 Magic Fire as Pfistermeister
- 1955 Der Cornet as Großwesir
- 1963 Caroussel of Passion as Schlossverwalter
- 1927 Children's Souls Accuse You as Heinrich Voss
- 1956 Zwölftausend as Minister von Treysa
- 1956 Wo war David Preston? as Inspector Hemingway
- 1955 Der Revisor as Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika
- 1960 Gericht über Las Casas as Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla
- 1959 Das mittlere Fenster as Angus
- 1957 Don Carlos as Großinquisitor
- 1963 Maria Stuart as Shrewsbury
- 1940 Leidenschaft as Boddin
- 1955 Die Bauernpassion as Scharfrichter
- 1926 Der Liebe Lust und Leid
- 1959 Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste as Krutizkij
- 1933 Der sündige Hof as Veit
- 1955 Squirrel as Herr Süpplein
- 1925 Götz von Berlichingen zubenannt mit der eisernen Hand as Farmer
- 1956 Das Abschiedsgeschenk as Dr. Frobisher
- 1916 Pinkus's Shoe Palace
- 1971 Die Weber as Der alte Hilse
- 1936 Onkel Bräsig as Slusohr
- 1969 Die Verspätung as Der Sargtischler
- 1927 The Last Waltz as Linnsky
- 1925 Comedians as Liebhaber
- 1924 Arabella
- 1922 Das verschwundene Haus
- 1922 Jugend as Amandus
- 1932 The four from Bob 13 as Schmidt
- 1934 Schuß am Nebelhorn as Sebastian Geyer
- 1959 Johanna aus Lothringen as Vater Massieu
- 1956 Oberst Chabert as Privatsekretär Delbecq
- 1926 Superfluous People as Chirikov
- 1923 Man by the Roadside
- 1925 Menschen am Meer
- 1955 Gottes Utopia as Bussaco
- 1955 Madame Aurélie as Papet
- 1925 Die Puppe vom Lunapark
- 1955 Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa as Jacob Marley
- 1955 Die Heiratskomödie as Stepan
- 1928 Schinderhannes as Heinrich Benzel
- 1926 Qualen der Nacht as Kellner
- 1931 Tropical Nights as Jones
- 1934 Border Patrol as Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer
- 1923 Between Evening and Morning as Friedhofsgärtner
- 1950 Skandal in der Botschaft as Inspector Kick
- 1958 Der öffentliche Ankläger as Sanson
- 1926 The House of Lies as Molwik
- 1928 Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel
- 1929 The Hound of the Baskervilles as Stapleton
- 1934 Altgermanische Bauernkultur
- 1921 The Wildcat as Solider (Uncredited)
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Jean Wimper
- 1969 The Commissioner ( 1 episode ) as Herr Sistig
- 1969 Gestern gelesen ( 1 episode ) as Vinvence van Hoek
- 1960 Am grünen Strand der Spree ( 1 episode ) as Herr Schorin
- 1951 German Film Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
