Fritz Rasp
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.
Metropolis
as The Thin ManIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's...
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The Red Circle
as FroyantA strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its...
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Diary of a Lost Girl
as MeinertThymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She...
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Woman in the Moon
as Walt TurnerA scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but...
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Spies
as Col. Jellusic - Ivan StepanovThe mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian...
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Fellowship of the Frog
as Ezra MaitlandBoth Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
as BarrymoreSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord...
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The 3 Penny Opera
as PeachumIn London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum...
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The Terrible People
as Lord Godley LongA creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his...
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
as KhalibievIn the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man...
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Secret of the Red Orchid
as TannerRival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
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Hocuspocus
as uncreditedKurt Hoffmann's remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz.
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The Strange Countess
as Rechtsanwalt ShaddleStrange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
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The Black Sheep
as Lord KingsleyFather Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and...
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Magic Fire
as PfistermeisterDirector William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars...
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Emil and the Detectives
as GrundeisWhen a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad...
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Paracelsus
as der MagisterThe story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
as StapletonOne of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
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Lina Braake
as Gustaf HaertleinAfter the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the...
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Pinkus's Shoe Palace
as uncreditedSally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled...
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Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
as The Thin ManIn 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction...
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It Was a Gay Ballnight
as Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only...
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Somewhere in Berlin
as Waldemar HunkeAfter WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an...
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Warning Shadows
as DienerDuring a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th...
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Dreyfus
as Major du Paty de ClamIn late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely...
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Tropical Nights
as Jones"Tropical Nights" - The young violinist Alma comes to Simbali with an orchestra led by conductor...
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The Great Longing
as HimselfDuring lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow,...
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Lockvogel
as de Groot, ihr VormundViktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul...
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The Ringer
as Rechtsanwalt Maurice MeisterA shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in...
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Spring Awakening
as uncreditedMoritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame...
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Docks of Hamburg
as The DoctorWhen Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is...
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The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
as SmerdjakowSuspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.
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Comedians
as Liebhaber"Comedians" - Axel Swinborne is a celebrated stage star. Although much in demand, he now wants...
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Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
as uncreditedA stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
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Frau im Strom
as WendelinAlois, Wendelin, Schani and Franz operate an auto repair shop in Vienna. One evening, Alois...
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Time Is Money
as FrançoisThe neglected young wife of a workaholic businessman looks for love.
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Three Around Edith
as PistolNotorious jewel thief Roger "Tiger" Brown sneaks into the trust of diamond dealer Thomas...
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The Pranks
as Direktor RappisGerman-Italian crime drama with a racing milieu: The International criminal, "The Paw", who...
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Fritz Rasp Interview
as HimselfA talk with actor Fritz Rasp about his career.
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Scene of the Crime
as Jean WimperTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Der Kommissar
as Herr SistigDer Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide...
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Am grünen Strand der Spree
as Herr SchorinAm grünen Strand der Spree was a five-part German television movie which first aired in 1960. It...
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