Biografia

He portrayed the mysterious "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.

His obituary in Der Spiegel described Rasp as "the German film villain in service, for over 60 years.".

Ilja Ehrenburg, writer of the movie "Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney", wrote about Rasp in later days: "Of all actors in the movie "Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney" in 1927 Fritz Rasp was the one who pleased me most. He looked like a veritable scoundrel. When he bit the girl into her arm and covered the wound immediately afterwards with a dollar note instead of a adhesive plaster, I forgot that an actor was in front of me".

His first roles in front of the camera were appointed to comedic roles but already in the 20s he was mostly engaged for knavish and twisty characters.

The sound movie couldn't harm the career of Fritz Rasp. He already played in the 30s in several Edgar-Wallace pictures which were very popular in Germany. Especially in the 50s and 60s there were a lot of remakes based on stories by Edgar Wallace which could lure a huge number of spectators into the cinema. Of course Rasp was also called to play one of the suspects.