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Fritz Rasp
Actor
Died November 30, 1976 (85 years)
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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.
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
Filmography
| 1984 | Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis · as The Thin Man |
| 1975 | Lina Braake · as Gustaf Haertlein |
| 1970 | Tatort (TV Series) · as Jean Wimper |
| 1969 | The Commissioner (TV Series) · as Herr Sistig |
| 1966 | |
| 1965 | Praetorius · as Shunderson |
| 1965 | Herodes und Mariamne · as Sameas |
| 1962 | Secret of the Red Orchid · as Tanner |
| 1962 | Black-White-Red Four Poster · as Pfarrer |
| 1961 | The Strange Countess · as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle |
| 1960 | Das schwarze Schaf · as Lord Kingsley |
| 1960 | The Terrible People · as Lord Godley Long |
| 1960 | The Red Circle · as Froyant |
| 1960 | Am grünen Strand der Spree (TV Series) · as Herr Schorin |
| 1959 | Face of the Frog · as Ezra Maitland |
| 1956 | Magic Fire · as Pfistermeister |
| 1955 | The Cornet · as Großwesir |
| 1953 | Hocuspocus · as Diener |
| 1952 | Haus des Lebens · as Pädophiler |
| 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 |
| 1938 | So You Don't Know Korff Yet? · as Kelly |
| 1937 | The Hound of the Baskervilles · as Barrymore |
| 1936 | Die Leuchter des Kaisers · as Stanislaus |
| 1934 | Little Dorrit · as Flintwinch |
| 1932 | The Ringer · as Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister |
| 1931 | Emil and the Detectives · as Grundeis |
| 1931 | The Threepenny Opera · as Peachum |
| 1931 | The Squeeker · as Frank Sutton |
| 1931 | Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff · as Smerdjakow |
| 1930 | The Dreyfus Case · as Major Du Paty De Clam |
| 1929 | Woman in the Moon · as Walt Turner |
| 1929 | Diary of a Lost Girl · as Meinert |
| 1929 | The Hound of the Baskervilles · as Stapleton |
| 1928 | Spies · as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov |
| 1927 | The Love of Jeanne Ney · as Khalibiev |
| 1927 | Metropolis · as The Thin Man |
| 1923 | Warning Shadows · as Diener |
| 1917 | |
| 1916 |