Fritz Rasp

from Bayreuth, Germany

Artwork for MetropolisImage of 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.

Timeline

1976Aged 85

1975Aged 84

  • Poster for Lina Braake

    Gustaf Haertlein

1974Aged 83

1972Aged 81

1971Aged 80

1969Aged 78

1966Aged 75

1965Aged 74

  • Poster for Herodes und Mariamne

    Sameas

  • Poster for Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius

    Shunderson

1963Aged 72

1962Aged 71

1961Aged 70

  • Poster for The Strange Countess

    Rechtsanwalt Shaddle

1960Aged 69

1959Aged 68

1958Aged 67

1957Aged 66

1956Aged 65

1955Aged 64

1953Aged 62

  • Poster for Hokuspokus

    Diener

  • Poster for Die Mühle im Schwarzwäldertal

    (Unknown)

1952Aged 61

  • Poster for Haus des Lebens

    Pädophiler

1950Aged 59

  • Poster for Skandal in der Botschaft

    Inspector Kick

1946Aged 55

  • Poster for Somewhere in Berlin

    Waldemar Hunke

1943Aged 52

  • Poster for Paracelsus

    der Magister

1941Aged 50

  • Poster for Alarm

    Feinmechaniker Stülken

1940Aged 49

  • Poster for Leidenschaft

    Boddin

1939Aged 48

  • Poster for It Was a Gay Ballnight

    Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow

  • Poster for Frau im Strom

    Wendelin

1938Aged 47

  • Poster for Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen

    Theo - Haushofmeister

  • Poster for Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht?

    Kelly

1937Aged 46

1936Aged 45

1935Aged 44

  • Poster for Lockspitzel Asew

    Asew

1934Aged 43

1933Aged 42

1932Aged 41

  • Poster for The four from Bob 13

    Schmidt

  • Poster for The Cruel Girlfriend

    Professor Bock

  • Poster for The Ringer

    Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister

1931Aged 40

  • Poster for The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov

    Smerdjakow

  • Poster for The 3 Penny Opera

    Peachum

  • Poster for Tropical Nights

    Jones

  • Poster for The Squeeker

    Frank Sutton

  • Poster for The Pranks

    Direktor Rappis

  • Poster for Emil and the Detectives

    Grundeis

1930Aged 39

  • Poster for Dreyfus

    Major du Paty de Clam

  • Poster for The Great Desire

    Himself

1929Aged 38

  • Poster for Spring Awakening

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Stapleton

  • Poster for Diary of a Lost Girl

    Meinert

  • Poster for Woman in the Moon

    Walt Turner

  • Poster for Three Around Edith

    Pistol

1928Aged 37

  • Schinderhannes

    Heinrich Benzel

  • Poster for Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Spies

    Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov

  • Poster for Docks of Hamburg

    The Doctor

1927Aged 36

1926Aged 35

1925Aged 34

1924Aged 33

  • Poster for Arabella

    (Unknown)

1923Aged 32

1922Aged 31

  • Poster for Das verschwundene Haus

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Jugend

    Amandus

1921Aged 30

  • Poster for The Wildcat

    Solider (Uncredited)

1917Aged 26

  • Poster for Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey

    (Unknown)

1916Aged 25

  • Poster for Pinkus's Shoe Palace

    (Unknown)

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