Fritz Rasp
Born: 1891-05-13 in Bayreuth, Germany
Died: 1976-11-30
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
1976
- Dorothea Merz as Der alte Merz
1975
- Lina Braake as Gustaf Haertlein
1974
- Tausend Francs Belohnung as Major Gedouard
1972
- Pero and Jovo
- Fritz Rasp Interview as Himself
1971
- Die Weber as Der alte Hilse
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Jean Wimper
1969
- Der Kommissar as Herr Sistig
- Die Verspätung as Der Sargtischler
- Gestern gelesen as Vinvence van Hoek
1966
- Hocuspocus
- Volpone oder Der Fuchs as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
1965
- Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius as Shunderson
- Herodes und Mariamne as Sameas
1963
- Maria Stuart as Shrewsbury
- Caroussel of Passion as Schlossverwalter
1962
- Black-White-Red Four Poster as Pfarrer
- Secret of the Red Orchid as Tanner
1961
- The Strange Countess as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
1960
- The Black Sheep as Lord Kingsley
- Bezaubernde Julia as Pierre
- Am grünen Strand der Spree as Herr Schorin
- The Terrible People as Lord Godley Long
- The Red Circle as Froyant
- Gericht über Las Casas as Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla
- Der Mann, der Donnerstag war as Freitag
1959
- Kasimir und Karoline as Speer
- Fellowship of the Frog as Ezra Maitland
- Das mittlere Fenster as Angus
- Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste as Krutizkij
- Johanna aus Lothringen as Vater Massieu
- Land, das meine Sprache spricht as Arzt
1958
- Augsburger Puppenkiste - Cenodoxus – Der Doktor von Paris as Asteroth
- Der öffentliche Ankläger as Sanson
1957
- Don Carlos as Großinquisitor
1956
- Zwölftausend as Minister von Treysa
- Wo war David Preston? as Inspector Hemingway
- Das Abschiedsgeschenk as Dr. Frobisher
- Oberst Chabert as Privatsekretär Delbecq
1955
- Die Heiratskomödie as Stepan
- Magic Fire as Pfistermeister
- Der Cornet as Großwesir
- Madame Aurélie as Papet
- Die Bauernpassion as Scharfrichter
- Gottes Utopia as Bussaco
- Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa as Jacob Marley
- Squirrel as Herr Süpplein
- Der Revisor as Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika
1953
- Hokuspokus as Diener
- Die Mühle im Schwarzwäldertal
1952
- Haus des Lebens as Pädophiler
1951
- German Film Award as Self
1950
- Skandal in der Botschaft as Inspector Kick
1946
- Somewhere in Berlin as Waldemar Hunke
1943
- Paracelsus as der Magister
1941
- Alarm as Feinmechaniker Stülken
1940
- Leidenschaft as Boddin
1939
- Frau im Strom as Wendelin
- It Was a Gay Ballnight as Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow
1938
- Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht? as Kelly
- Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen as Theo - Haushofmeister
1937
- Togger as Dublanc
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Barrymore
1936
- Onkel Bräsig as Slusohr
- Die Leuchter des Kaisers as Stanislaus
1935
- Lockspitzel Asew as Asew
1934
- Little Dorrit as Flintwinch
- Lockvogel as de Groot, ihr Vormund
- Charley's Aunt as Lord Babberley
- Altgermanische Bauernkultur
- Schuß am Nebelhorn as Sebastian Geyer
- Grenzfeuer as Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer
1933
- Der Judas von Tirol as Raffl
- Der sündige Hof as Veit
1932
- The Ringer as Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister
- The Cruel Girlfriend as Professor Bock
- The four from Bob 13 as Schmidt
1931
- The Squeeker as Frank Sutton
- The 3 Penny Opera as Peachum
- The Pranks as Direktor Rappis
- The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov as Smerdjakow
- Emil and the Detectives as Grundeis
- Tropical Nights as Jones
1930
- Dreyfus as Major du Paty de Clam
- The Great Passion as Himself
1929
- Diary of a Lost Girl as Meinert
- Woman in the Moon as Walt Turner
- Spring Awakening
- Three Around Edith as Pistol
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Stapleton
1928
- Spies as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
- Schinderhannes as Heinrich Benzel
- Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel
- Docks of Hamburg as The Doctor
1927
- Metropolis as The Thin Man
- The Love of Jeanne Ney as Khalibiev
- Children's Souls Accuse You as Heinrich Voss
- The Last Waltz as Linnsky
1926
- Superfluous People as Chirikov
- The House of Lies as Molwik
- Qualen der Nacht as Kellner
- Der Liebe Lust und Leid
1925
- Comedians as Liebhaber
- Götz von Berlichingen zubenannt mit der eisernen Hand as Farmer
- Die Puppe vom Lunapark
- Menschen am Meer
1924
1923
- Man by the Roadside
- Warning Shadows as Diener
- Between Evening and Morning
- Time Is Money as François
1922
- Jugend as Amandus
- Das verschwundene Haus