Fritz Rasp

Fritz Rasp

Birth : 1891-05-13, Bayreuth, Germany

Death : 1976-11-30

History

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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Fritz Rasp
Fritz Rasp
Fritz Rasp

Movies

Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
The Thin Man
In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.
Dorothea Merz
Der alte Merz
Lina Braake
Gustaf Haertlein
After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves to be successful, the bank soon finds Lina. But due to her old age she cannot be tried anymore.
Tausend Francs Belohnung
Major Gedouard
Pero and Jovo
Fritz Rasp Interview
Himself
A talk with actor Fritz Rasp about his career.
Die Weber
Der alte Hilse
Die Verspätung
Der Sargtischler
Hocuspocus
Kurt Hoffmann's remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz.
Volpone oder Der Fuchs
Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius
Shunderson
Herodes und Mariamne
Sameas
Caroussel of Passion
Schlossverwalter
Maria Stuart
Shrewsbury
Black-White-Red Four Poster
Pfarrer
Secret of the Red Orchid
Tanner
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
The Strange Countess
Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
The Black Sheep
Lord Kingsley
Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest playing detective.
Edgar Wallace - Die Bande des Schreckens
Lord Godley Long
A creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
Bezaubernde Julia
Pierre
The Red Circle
Froyant
A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to blackmail and murder.
Gericht über Las Casas
Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla
Der Mann, der Donnerstag war
Freitag
Kasimir und Karoline
Speer
Edgar Wallace - Der Frosch mit der Maske
Ezra Maitland
Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. Murder, kidnapping and seduction ensue.
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Krutizkij
Das mittlere Fenster
Angus
Johanna aus Lothringen
Vater Massieu
Land, das meine Sprache spricht
Arzt
Der öffentliche Ankläger
Sanson
Augsburger Puppenkiste - Cenodoxus
voice
Don Carlos
Großinquisitor
Zwölftausend
Minister von Treysa
Wo war David Preston?
Inspector Hemingway
Oberst Chabert
Privatsekretär Delbecq
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
Dr. Frobisher
Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa
Jacob Marley
Der Cornet
Großwesir
Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.
Die Heiratskomödie
Stepan
Gottes Utopia
Bussaco
Der Revisor
Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika
Magic Fire
Pfistermeister
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.
Madame Aurélie
Papet
Squirrel
Herr Süpplein
Die Bauernpassion
Scharfrichter
Die Mühle im Schwarzwäldertal
Hokuspokus
Diener
Haus des Lebens
Pädophiler
Skandal in der Botschaft
Inspector Kick
Somewhere in Berlin
Waldemar Hunke
After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless.
Paracelsus
der Magister
A 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). The film is one of several big nazi era productions with main characters regarded as propaganda-parables to Adolf Hitler (see also Ohm Krüger and Der grosse König).
Alarm
Feinmechaniker Stülken
Leidenschaft
Boddin
Frau im Strom
Wendelin
Alois, Wendelin, Schani and Franz operate an auto repair shop in Vienna. One evening, Alois fishes the suicidal Hannerl out of the Danube and takes her to live with him. The timid and taciturn woman soon disappears however, and with her, a large amount of cash out of the shop's cash register. A disappointed Alois wishes to forget about her, but his three friends look for Hannerl and the money. As it turns out, she's married to the smuggler Kerrylis, who forces her to take part in his business; that's why she tried to kill herself. When Kerrylis is found dead, Alois is suspected of being the murderer.
It Was a Gay Ballnight
Kritiker Porphyr Philippowitsch Kruglikow
1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht?
Kelly
Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen
Theo - Haushofmeister
Togger
Dublanc
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Barrymore
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
Onkel Bräsig
Slusohr
The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young people, so that by the end of the film, there's a double marriage.
Die Leuchter des Kaisers
Stanislaus
Lockspitzel Asew
Asew
Lockvogel
de Groot, ihr Vormund
Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Delia, with whom Viktor is in love, is used as bait. His boyhood friend Sibyl, who is in love with Viktor, warns him of the criminal ship owner and the captain, who intend to steal the jewel during a masked ball on board. Shortly before reaching the coast of France, an explosion causes the ship to capsize.
Klein-Dorrit
Flintwinch
Charley's Aunt
Lord Babberley
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
Schuß am Nebelhorn
Sebastian Geyer
Grenzfeuer
Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer
The Judas of Tyrol
Raffl
In the year 1810, the Tyrol is suffering under French occupation. A servant, who believes himself oppressed and disenfranchised by the peasants, dreams of being allowed to play Christ in the yearly Passion Play. Instead, he is forced to play Judas and soon the lines of reality blur: he betrays the location of Andreas Hofer, hidden by the farmers, breaks under the weight of his guilt and suffers Judas' fate.
Der sündige Hof
Veit
1933 German film.
The Ringer
Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
The Cruel Girlfriend
Professor Bock
The four from Bob 13
Schmidt
Emil and the Detectives
Grundeis
When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
The Pranks
Direktor Rappis
German-Italian crime drama with a racing milieu: The International criminal, "The Paw", who kills his victims with a prosthesis, has struck again! An engineer, who has designed a new racing car for the Italian firm Alberti has been found beaten to death. The plans for the car have been stolen. Rappis, the firm's director, takes part in the race and hits the finish line at the same time as the German racer, Peter Kruger. Then Rappis is found beaten to death, too.
The Squeeker
Frank Sutton
Tropical Nights
Jones
"Tropical Nights" - The young violinist Alma comes to Simbali with an orchestra led by conductor Zangiacoma, hired for a series of performances at the Schomberg hotel. Both the conductor Zangiacomo and Schomberg are obsessed with Alma. One evening, when Alma is, as usual, forced to entertain the guests she meets Mr. Heyst from his island Sourabaya, where he lives in solitude. He takes Alma to his place on the island.
The 3 Penny Opera
Peachum
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Smerdjakow
Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.
The Great Longing
Himself
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
Dreyfus
Major du Paty de Clam
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.
Three Around Edith
Pistol
Notorious jewel thief Roger "Tiger" Brown sneaks into the trust of diamond dealer Thomas Morland. Not only does Morland's jewels appeal to him, but also his fiancée, Lady Edith Trent. But when Morland acquires the largest diamond in the world in Amsterdam, Brown decides against Edith and for the diamond, takes it and runs away.
Woman in the Moon
Walt Turner
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Diary of a Lost Girl
Meinert
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Stapleton
One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
Spring Awakening
Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.
Docks of Hamburg
The Doctor
When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.
Spies
Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov, English version
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
Der geheimnisvolle Spiegel
Schinderhannes
Heinrich Benzel
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Khalibiev
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
The Last Waltz
Linnsky
Children's Souls Accuse You
Heinrich Voss
Children's Souls Accuse You is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Albert Steinrück, Nathalie Lissenko and Walter Rilla. It was made with an anti-abortion theme.
Metropolis
The Thin Man
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Superfluous People
Chirikov
Directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj.
Qualen der Nacht
Kellner
The House of Lies
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Götz von Berlichingen zubenannt mit der eisernen Hand
Farmer
Die Puppe vom Lunapark
Komödianten
Liebhaber
"Comedians" - Axel Swinborne is a celebrated stage star. Although much in demand, he now wants to recover and travel by train on vacation. He leans out of the window at full speed, as happens a momentous mishap: his jacket gets tangled on the window lever so unhappy that it ejects the suction force out of the window.
Menschen am Meer
Arabella
Warning Shadows
Diener
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?
Zwischen Abend und Morgen
Time Is Money
François
The neglected young wife of a workaholic businessman looks for love.
Man by the Roadside
Jugend
Amandus
Das verschwundene Haus
Shoe Palace Pinkus
Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.