Fritz Rasp
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Metropolis
1927
as The Thin Man
Emil and the Detectives
1931
as Grundeis
Woman in the Moon
1929
as Walt Turner
Spies
1928
as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
The Terrible People
1960
as Lord Godley Long
Secret of the Red Orchid
1962
as Tanner
The Great Passion
1930
as Himself
Lockvogel
1934
as de Groot, ihr Vormund
The Last Waltz
1927
as Linnsky
Qualen der Nacht
1926
as Kellner
Fellowship of the Frog
1959
as Ezra Maitland
Black-White-Red Four Poster
1962
as Pfarrer
Onkel Bräsig
1936
as Slusohr
The 3 Penny Opera
1931
as Peachum
Kasimir und Karoline
1959
as Speer
Charley's Aunt
1934
as Lord Babberley
Hocuspocus
1966
The House of Lies
1926
as Molwik
Maria Stuart
1963
as Shrewsbury
Alarm
1941
as Feinmechaniker Stülken