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
- Fritz Rasp Interview as Himself
- Pero and Jovo
1971
- Die Weber as Der alte Hilse
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Jean Wimper
1969
- The Commissioner as Herr Sistig
- Gestern gelesen as Vinvence van Hoek
- Die Verspätung as Der Sargtischler
1966
- Hocuspocus
- Volpone oder Der Fuchs as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
1965
- Herodes und Mariamne as Sameas
- Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius as Shunderson
1963
- Maria Stuart as Shrewsbury
- Caroussel of Passion as Schlossverwalter
1962
- Black-White-Red Four Poster as Pfarrer
- The Secret of the Red Orchid as Tanner
1961
- The Strange Countess as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
1960
- Am grünen Strand der Spree as Herr Schorin
- The Red Circle as Froyant
- The Terrible People as Lord Godley Long
- The Black Sheep as Lord Kingsley
- Bezaubernde Julia as Pierre
- Gericht über Las Casas as Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla
- Der Mann, der Donnerstag war as Freitag
1959
- Fellowship of the Frog as Ezra Maitland
- Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste as Krutizkij
- Kasimir und Karoline as Speer
- Johanna aus Lothringen as Vater Massieu
- Land, das meine Sprache spricht as Arzt
- Das mittlere Fenster as Angus
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
- Das Abschiedsgeschenk as Dr. Frobisher
- Wo war David Preston? as Inspector Hemingway
- Oberst Chabert as Privatsekretär Delbecq
1955
- Magic Fire as Pfistermeister
- Squirrel as Herr Süpplein
- Der Revisor as Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika
- Gottes Utopia as Bussaco
- Die Bauernpassion as Scharfrichter
- Die Heiratskomödie as Stepan
- Der Cornet as Großwesir
- Madame Aurélie as Papet
- Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa as Jacob Marley
1953
- Die Mühle im Schwarzwäldertal
- Hokuspokus as Diener
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
- Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen as Theo - Haushofmeister
- Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht? as Kelly
1937
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Barrymore
- Togger as Dublanc
1936
- Onkel Bräsig as Slusohr
- Die Leuchter des Kaisers as Stanislaus
1935
- Lockspitzel Asew as Asew
1934
- Charley's Aunt as Lord Babberley
- Border Patrol as Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer
- Decoy as de Groot, ihr Vormund
- Schuß am Nebelhorn as Sebastian Geyer
- Little Dorrit as Flintwinch
- Altgermanische Bauernkultur
1933
- Der Judas von Tirol as Raffl
- Der sündige Hof as Veit
1932
- The four from Bob 13 as Schmidt
- The Ringer as Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister
- The Cruel Girlfriend as Professor Bock
1931
- Emil and the Detectives as Grundeis
- Tropical Nights as Jones
- The 3 Penny Opera as Peachum
- The Pranks as Direktor Rappis
- The Squeeker as Frank Sutton
- The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov as Smerdjakow
1930
- The Great Passion as Himself
- Dreyfus as Major du Paty de Clam
1929
- Spring Awakening
- Woman in the Moon as Walt Turner
- Diary of a Lost Girl as Meinert
- Three Around Edith as Pistol
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Stapleton
1928
- Spies as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
- Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel
- Schinderhannes as Heinrich Benzel
- Docks of Hamburg as The Doctor
1927
- Metropolis as The Thin Man
- The Last Waltz as Linnsky
- The Love of Jeanne Ney as Khalibiev
- Children's Souls Accuse You as Heinrich Voss
1926
- The House of Lies as Molwik
- Qualen der Nacht as Kellner
- Superfluous People as Chirikov
- Der Liebe Lust und Leid
1925
- Götz von Berlichingen zubenannt mit der eisernen Hand as Farmer
- Menschen am Meer
- Comedians as Liebhaber
- Die Puppe vom Lunapark
1924
1923
- Warning Shadows as Diener
- Time Is Money as François
- Man by the Roadside
- Between Evening and Morning as Friedhofsgärtner
1922
- Jugend as Amandus
- Das verschwundene Haus
1921
- The Wildcat as Solider (Uncredited)