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.
Filmography
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Dorothea Merz
1976
as Der alte Merz
Lina Braake
1975
as Gustaf Haertlein
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Tausend Francs Belohnung
1974
as Major Gedouard
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Pero and Jovo
1972
Fritz Rasp Interview
1972
as Himself
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Die Weber
1971
as Der alte Hilse
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Die Verspätung
1969
as Der Sargtischler
Hocuspocus
1966
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Volpone oder Der Fuchs
1966
as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius
1965
as Shunderson
Herodes und Mariamne
1965
as Sameas
Caroussel of Passion
1963
as Schlossverwalter
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Maria Stuart
1963
as Shrewsbury
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Black-White-Red Four Poster
1962
as Pfarrer
The Secret of the Red Orchid
1962
as Tanner
The Strange Countess
1961
as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
The Black Sheep
1960
as Lord Kingsley
The Terrible People
1960
as Lord Godley Long
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Bezaubernde Julia
1960
as Pierre
The Red Circle
1960
as Froyant
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Der Mann, der Donnerstag war
1960
as Freitag
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Gericht über Las Casas
1960
as Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla
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Kasimir und Karoline
1959
as Speer
Fellowship of the Frog
1959
as Ezra Maitland