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Fritz Rasp

Fritz Rasp

Birthday: 1891-05-13 | Place of Birth: Bayreuth, Germany

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2010
Metropolis

as    The Thin Man

1962
Secret of the Red Orchid

as    Tanner

1933
The Judas of Tyrol

as    Raffl

1931
The 3 Penny Opera

as    Peachum

1930
Diary of a Lost Girl

as    Meinert

1928
Spies

as    Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov, English version

1927
The Love of Jeanne Ney

as    Khalibiev

1923
Warning Shadows

as    Diener