Fritz Rasp
Known for ActingBorn 1891-05-13 — died 1976-11-30Bayreuth, Germany
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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.
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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
Metropolis
1927 · as The Thin Man
Charley's Aunt
1934 · as Lord Babberley
Tropical Nights
1931 · as Jones
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
1956 · as Dr. Frobisher
Zwölftausend
1956 · as Minister von Treysa
Gottes Utopia
1955 · as Bussaco
Woman in the Moon
1929 · as Walt Turner
Decoy
1934 · as de Groot, ihr Vormund
Onkel Bräsig
1936 · as Slusohr
Maria Stuart
1963 · as Shrewsbury
Spies
1928 · as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929 · as Meinert
Squirrel
1955 · as Herr Süpplein
Emil and the Detectives
1931 · as Grundeis
Alarm
1941 · as Feinmechaniker Stülken
The Strange Countess
1961 · as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
Jugend
1922 · as Amandus
The Red Circle
1960 · as Froyant