Fritz Rasp

Fritz Rasp
Born	Fritz Heinrich Rasp 13 May 1891(1891-05-13) Bayreuth, Germany
Died	30 November 1976(1976-11-30) (aged 85) Gräfelfing, Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916–1976

Fritz Heinrich Rasp (13 May 1891 – 30 November 1976) 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 the latter film in which he appears are part of the Metropolis footage long believed lost until their recovery in 2008.

Selected filmography

• Schuhpalast Pinkus (1916)
• Warning Shadows (1923)
• Metropolis (1927)
• The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
• Spione (1928)
• Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
• Woman in the Moon (1929)
• The Dreyfus Case (1930)
• Emil and the Detectives (1931)
• The Threepenny Opera (1931)
• The Squeaker (1931)
• The Sorceror (1932)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
• So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (1938)
• It Was a Gay Ballnight (1939)
• Paracelsus (1943)
• Somewhere in Berlin (1946)
• Haus des Lebens (1952)
• Face of the Frog (1959)
• The Black Sheep (1960)
• Der rote Kreis (1960)
• The Terrible People (1960)
• The Strange Countess (1961)
• The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962)
• Lina Braake (1975)
• Dorothea Merz (1976) (TV)

External links

• Fritz Rasp at the Internet Movie Database
• Photographs and literature
• Fritz Rasp at Find a Grave