Fritz Rasp
Nacimiento : 1891-05-13, Bayreuth, Germany
Muerte : 1976-11-30
Historia
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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.
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.
Der alte Merz
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.
Major Gedouard
Himself
A talk with actor Fritz Rasp about his career.
Der alte Hilse
Der Sargtischler
Kurt Hoffmann's remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz.
Corbaccio, alter Edelmann
Shunderson
Sameas
Schlossverwalter
Shrewsbury
Pfarrer
Tanner
Bandas rivales de Chicago se trasladan a Londres, con la intención de extorsionar a los británicos ricos.
Rechtsanwalt Shaddle
Margaret Reddle, empleada en el despacho del abogado Shaddle, es contratada como secretaria de la extraña condesa Eleonora Moron que reside en el castillo de Cornerfleet. La joven piensa que, con el nuevo empleo, quizá acaben las siniestras amenazas telefónicas que recibe desde hace un tiempo. El último trabajo que le encarga Shaddle consiste en hacer firmar unos documentos a una tal Mary Pinder, quien se encuentra en prisión desde hace20 años, acusada de envenenar a su marido. Margaret puede echar una ojeada a los documentos y descubre con sorpresa que se trata de su propia madre. A partir de ese momento empiezan a suceder misteriosos acontecimientos que indican la existencia de un complot.
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.
Lord Godley Long
Un ladrón de bancos, Clay Shelton, es sentenciado a muerte por el asesinato de uno de los policías que le detuvo. Instantes antes de ser ahorcado, profetiza que todos los que tuvieren alguna relación con su muerte serán a su vez ejecutados por él quien llama “El brazo de la Horca”. Nadie se toma en serio sus palabras, pero poco tiempo después se producen varios accidentes mortales, y perecen el fiscal que lo acusó, el juez que le condenó y el verdugo que le ejecutó. Algunos testigos señalan la presencia de un desconocido con la mano alzada en forma de garra, exactamente como Shelton había predicho. Otros afirman haber reconocido al mismo Shelton. ¿Se trata de su fantasma o de un doble? Mientras el pánico se extiende entre el resto de los supervivientes, el inspector Long está seguro de que las muertes tienen un origen racional y no sobrenatural, y para asegurarse abre la tumba de Shelton...
Pierre
Froyant
En la prisión de Toulouse está a punto de ejecutarse una sentencia de muerte, pero la torpeza del verdugo, al dejar un clavo en la guillotina, salva la vida del reo. Once años más tarde, una ola de chantajes asola la ciudad de Londres: ciudadanos de buena posición económica reciben una carta de extorsión en la que aparece impreso un círculo rojo. Todos los que no ceden al chantaje o avisan a la policía son fríamente asesinados, y siempre, junto a cada víctima, se encuentra un trozo de papel con un círculo rojo impreso. El inspector Parr, de Scotland Yard, y un célebre detective privado, Derrick Yale, unen sus esfuerzos en la investigación policial. Los crímenes siguen, pero poco a poco, las sospechas se van concentrando en un número reducido de personajes.
Kardinal Loaisa von Sevilla
Freitag
Speer
Ezra Maitland
Una banda de delincuentes tiene atemorizada la ciudad de Londres con sus delitos: tras cada fechoría dejan como señal la marca de una rana, y su misterioso jefe oculta la identidad bajo un grotesco disfraz, en el que destacan unos ojos terroríficos. El inspector Elk, encargado del caso, se enfrenta a un problema insoluble: no hay pistas útiles, y los testigos potenciales guardan silencio por miedo a morir. Richard Gordon, sobrino del jefe de Scotland Yard, inicia su propia investigación, y sus pesquisas le llevan a un club nocturno, el “Lolita”. Varios personajes sospechosos se cruzan en su camino...
Krutizkij
Angus
Vater Massieu
Arzt
Sanson
voice
Großinquisitor
Minister von Treysa
Inspector Hemingway
Privatsekretär Delbecq
Dr. Frobisher
Jacob Marley
Großwesir
Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.
Stepan
Bussaco
Hospitalverwalter Artemij Fillippowitsch Semljanika
Pfistermeister
Recrea la vida del controvertido compositor del siglo XIX, Richard Wagner, y su extraña relación con Ludwig II, conocido como "El Rey Loco" de Bavaria.
Papet
Herr Süpplein
Scharfrichter
Diener
Pädophiler
Inspector Kick
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.
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).
Feinmechaniker Stülken
Boddin
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.
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.
Kelly
Theo - Haushofmeister
Dublanc
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.
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.
Stanislaus
Asew
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.
Flintwinch
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.
Sebastian Geyer
Nothaas, Grenzhofbauer
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.
Veit
1933 German film.
Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
Professor Bock
Schmidt
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.
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.
Frank Sutton
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.
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'.
Smerdjakow
Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.
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.
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.
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.
Walt Turner
La película dedica su primera parte a analizar las posibilidades de realizar un viaje a la Luna con el fin de encontrar oro. En la segunda, se trata del viaje y de las sorpresas que deparará a los protagonistas.
Meinert
Tres páginas de un Diario, estrenada en septiembre de 1929, fue la segunda versión cinematográfica de la novela "Diario de una Perdida" de Margarethe Bohme. Curiosamente, la primera fue interpretada en 1918 por Erna Morena, actriz que un año antes había protagonizado "Lulu", adaptación de la obra de Frank Wedekind que fue, también, el título que unió por vez primera al realizador alemán G.W. Pabst y a la actriz norteamericana Luise Brooks: La Caja de Pandora (Lulú), estrenada en enero de 1929. Estos dos títulos, junto a "Crisis" (1928), integran lo que se conoció como la "trilogía erótica" de Pabst, lo que puede dar una pista de los problemas de censura y distribución que tuvieron en su momento ambos films.
Stapleton
One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
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.
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.
Col. Jellusic - Ivan Stepanov, English version
El agente 326 de la Policía Estatal (Willy Fritsch) debe desbaratar una red de espionaje y detener a su cabecilla. El nº 326 desconoce que se trata del banquero Haghi (Rudolf Kein Rogge), quien trata por todos los medios de confundir al Servicio Secreto y neutralizar al nº 326 especialmente tras saber que su mejor espía, Sonja (Gerda Maurus), se ha enamorado del agente.
Heinrich Benzel
Khalibiev
Jeanne es una joven francesa que se encuentra en una pequeña ciudad de Crimea durante la Revolución Rusa. Andreas, un oficial zarista que ha abrazado la causa bolchevique, se enamora de Jeanne. Tras una serie de peripecias ella vuelve a Francia. Poco después llegan por separado Andreas, para organizar a los marineros de Toulon, y Kalibiev, un espía. Después de numerosos problemas, Jeanne y Andreas pueden estar juntos.
Linnsky
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.
The Thin Man
En una megalópolis del año 2000, los obreros están condenados a vivir recluidos en un gueto subterráneo, donde se encuentra el corazón industrial de la ciudad. Sin embargo, incitados por un robot, se rebelan contra la clase dominante y amenazan con destruir la ciudad exterior. Freder (Gustav Frölich), el hijo del soberano de Metrópolis, y María, una muchacha de origen humilde, intentarán evitar la destrucción apelando a los sentimientos y al amor.
Chirikov
La primera coproducción germano-soviética procesó once cuentos de Chejov. En los créditos iniciales se lee: "Antes de la guerra, la gente de Rusia vivía en el interior de Rusia. Las 'bendiciones' de la civilización no les habían llegado. De esas personas superfluas que viven en una pequeña ciudad rusa habla esta película". Se trata de una farsa provincial idílica con acentos trágicamente conmovedores, exageraciones grotescas y humor grosero, caracterizada por una humanidad conciliadora. La película se creyó perdida durante mucho tiempo y se reconstruyó en 1978. (Eddie Constanti)
Kellner
Farmer
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.
Diener
Un mago experto en sombras chinescas es el encargado de amenizar una cena dada por un barón y su bella esposa. El marido, un hombre muy celoso, comenzará a enfurecerse cuando los invitados pretendan besar la "figura" de su mujer.
François
The neglected young wife of a workaholic businessman looks for love.
Amandus
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.
