Fritz Rasp
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.
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- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Jean Wimper
- German Film Award (1951) as Self
- The Commissioner (1969) as Herr Sistig
- Metropolis (1927) as The Thin Man
- Gestern gelesen (1969) as Vinvence van Hoek
- Am grünen Strand der Spree (1960) as Herr Schorin
- Spies (1928) as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
- Woman in the Moon (1929) as Walt Turner
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) as Meinert
- The 3 Penny Opera (1931) as Peachum
- Paracelsus (1943) as der Magister
- Somewhere in Berlin (1946) as Waldemar Hunke
- Fellowship of the Frog (1959) as Ezra Maitland
- The Squeeker (1931) as Frank Sutton
- The Secret of the Red Orchid (1962) as Tanner
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929) as Stapleton
- Warning Shadows (1923) as Diener
- Man by the Roadside (1923)
- Emil and the Detectives (1931) as Grundeis
- Hokuspokus (1953) as Diener
- The Terrible People (1960) as Lord Godley Long
- The Strange Countess (1961) as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
- Children's Souls Accuse You (1927) as Heinrich Voss
- The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov (1931) as Smerdjakow