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 JJ Peachum in The Threepenny Opera 1931 as Meinert in Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 and as Der Schmale The Thin Man in Fritz Langs 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 Rasps 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