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Fritz Rasp

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1891-05-13

Day of Death

1976-11-30

Place of Birth

Bayreuth, Germany

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.

Filmography (111)

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⭐ 7.0 Role: Der alte Merz

Dorothea Merz

1976
⭐ 7.6 Role: Gustaf Haertlein

Lina Braake

1975
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⭐ 10.0 Role: Major Gedouard

Tausend Francs Belohnung

1974
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⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Pero and Jovo

1972
⭐ 6.0 Role: Himself

Fritz Rasp Interview

1972
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⭐ 0 Role: Der alte Hilse

Die Weber

1971
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⭐ 0 Role: Der Sargtischler

Die Verspätung

1969
⭐ 5.4 Role: Unknown

Hocuspocus

1966
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⭐ 10.0 Role: Corbaccio, alter Edelmann

Volpone oder Der Fuchs

1966
⭐ 4.7 Role: Shunderson

Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius

1965
⭐ 10.0 Role: Sameas

Herodes und Mariamne

1965
⭐ 10.0 Role: Schlossverwalter

Caroussel of Passion

1963
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⭐ 0 Role: Shrewsbury

Maria Stuart

1963
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⭐ 8.0 Role: Pfarrer

Black-White-Red Four Poster

1962
⭐ 5.8 Role: Tanner

Secret of the Red Orchid

1962