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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.

Fritz Heinrich Rasp (Bayreuth, Alemanya, 13 de maig de 1891 – Gräfelfing, Alemanya, 30 de novembre de 1976) va ser un actor de cinema alemany que va aparèixer en més de 100 pel·lícules entre 1916 i 1976. El seu obituari a Der Spiegel va descriure Rasp com "el dolent del cinema alemany en servei, durant més de 60 anys".