Fritz Rasp

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-05-13 (85 years old)

Deathday

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 ...

Acting

1927

Metropolis

as The Thin Man

1984

1929

Woman in the Moon

as Walt Turner

1960

The Terrible People

as Lord Godley Long

1928

Docks of Hamburg

as The Doctor

1934

Charley's Aunt

as Lord Babberley

1959

Fellowship of the Frog

as Ezra Maitland

1929

1931

1960

The Black Sheep

as Lord Kingsley

1932

The Cruel Girlfriend

as Professor Bock

1923

1931

The Squeeker

as Frank Sutton

1927

1975

Lina Braake

as Gustaf Haertlein

1972

1935

1960

The Red Circle

as Froyant

1961

The Strange Countess

as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle

1965

1930

Dreyfus

as Major du Paty de Clam

1939

It Was a Gay Ballnight

as Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow

1952

Haus des Lebens

as Pädophiler

1932

The Ringer

as Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister

1943

Paracelsus

as der Magister

1933

1938

Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen

as Theo - Haushofmeister

1974

Tausend Francs Belohnung

as Major Gedouard

1941

Alarm

as Feinmechaniker Stülken

1953

Hokuspokus

as Diener

1946

Somewhere in Berlin

as Waldemar Hunke

1976

Dorothea Merz

as Der alte Merz

1937

Togger

as Dublanc

1960

1934

Lockvogel

as de Groot, ihr Vormund

1939

Frau im Strom

as Wendelin

1928

Spies

as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov

1936

1934

Klein-Dorrit

as Flintwinch

1923

Time Is Money

as François

1929

1930

1966

Volpone oder Der Fuchs

as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann

1931

The Pranks

as Direktor Rappis

1955

Magic Fire

as Pfistermeister

1955

Der Cornet

as Großwesir

1963

Caroussel of Passion

as Schlossverwalter

1927

1956

Zwölftausend

as Minister von Treysa

1956

Wo war David Preston?

as Inspector Hemingway

1955

Der Revisor

as Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika

1960

Gericht über Las Casas

as Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla

1957

Don Carlos

as Großinquisitor

1963

Maria Stuart

as Shrewsbury

1940

Leidenschaft

as Boddin

1955

Die Bauernpassion

as Scharfrichter

1933

1955

Squirrel

as Herr Süpplein

1956

Das Abschiedsgeschenk

as Dr. Frobisher

1971

Die Weber

as Der alte Hilse

1936

Onkel Bräsig

as Slusohr

1969

Die Verspätung

as Der Sargtischler

1927

The Last Waltz

as Linnsky

1925

Comedians

as Liebhaber

1922

Jugend

as Amandus

1932

1934

Schuß am Nebelhorn

as Sebastian Geyer

1959

Johanna aus Lothringen

as Vater Massieu

1956

Oberst Chabert

as Privatsekretär Delbecq

1926

1955

1955

Gottes Utopia

as Bussaco

1955

1955

1928

Schinderhannes

as Heinrich Benzel

1926

1931

1934

Grenzfeuer

as Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer

1950

Skandal in der Botschaft

as Inspector Kick

1926

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