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Fritz Heinrich Rasp
Fritz Rasp
Acting
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 i…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Dorothea Merz
as Der alte Merz
Lina Braake
as Gustaf Haertlein
Tausend Francs Belohnung
as Major Gedouard
Fritz Rasp Interview
as Himself
Pero and Jovo
Die Weber
as Der alte Hilse
Die Verspätung
as Der Sargtischler
Volpone oder Der Fuchs
as Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
Hocuspocus
Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius
as Shunderson
