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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-05-13 (133 years old)

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.

Known For

Acting

1984

1976

Dorothea Merz as Der alte Merz

1975

Lina Braake as Gustaf Haertlein

1974

Tausend Francs Belohnung as Major Gedouard

1972

1971

Die Weber as Der alte Hilse

1970

Scene of the Crime as Jean Wimper

1969

Die Verspätung as Der Sargtischler
Der Kommissar as Herr Sistig
Gestern gelesen as Vinvence van Hoek

1966

Volpone oder Der Fuchs as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann

1965

1963

Caroussel of Passion as Schlossverwalter
Maria Stuart as Shrewsbury

1962

1961

The Strange Countess as Rechtsanwalt Shaddle

1960

The Terrible People as Lord Godley Long
The Black Sheep as Lord Kingsley
The Red Circle as Froyant
Gericht über Las Casas as Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla

1959

Fellowship of the Frog as Ezra Maitland
Johanna aus Lothringen as Vater Massieu

1958

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

Magic Fire as Pfistermeister
Der Cornet as Großwesir
Der Revisor as Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika
Die Bauernpassion as Scharfrichter
Squirrel as Herr Süpplein
Gottes Utopia as Bussaco

1953

Hokuspokus as Diener

1952

Haus des Lebens as Pädophiler

1951

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

It Was a Gay Ballnight as Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow
Frau im Strom as Wendelin

1938

Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen as Theo - Haushofmeister

1937

Togger as Dublanc

1936

Onkel Bräsig as Slusohr

1935

1934

Charley's Aunt as Lord Babberley
Lockvogel as de Groot, ihr Vormund
Klein-Dorrit as Flintwinch
Schuß am Nebelhorn as Sebastian Geyer
Grenzfeuer as Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer

1933

1932

The Cruel Girlfriend as Professor Bock
The Ringer as Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister

1931

The Squeeker as Frank Sutton
The Pranks as Direktor Rappis

1930

Dreyfus as Major du Paty de Clam

1929

Woman in the Moon as Walt Turner

1928

Docks of Hamburg as The Doctor
Spies as Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov
Schinderhannes as Heinrich Benzel

1927

Metropolis as The Thin Man
The Last Waltz as Linnsky

1926

Superfluous People as Chirikov
Qualen der Nacht as Kellner

1925

Comedians as Liebhaber

1924

1923

Warning Shadows as Diener
Time Is Money as François

1922

Jugend as Amandus

1917

1916