Fritz Rasp
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Metropolis
as The Thin Man
1927
Woman in the Moon
as Walt Turner
1929
Secret of the Red Orchid
as Tanner
1962
Emil and the Detectives
as Grundeis
1931
The Terrible People
as Lord Godley Long
1960
Docks of Hamburg
as The Doctor
1928
Charley's Aunt
as Lord Babberley
1934
Fellowship of the Frog
as Ezra Maitland
1959
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Meinert
1929
The 3 Penny Opera
as Peachum
1931
Pero and Jovo
1972
The Black Sheep
as Lord Kingsley
1960
The Cruel Girlfriend
as Professor Bock
1932
Warning Shadows
as Diener
1923
The Squeeker
as Frank Sutton
1931
The Love of Jeanne Ney
as Khalibiev
1927
Lina Braake
as Gustaf Haertlein
1975
Augsburger Puppenkiste - Cenodoxus – Der Doktor von Paris
as Asteroth
1958
Hocuspocus
1966
Fritz Rasp Interview
as Himself
1972
