Bruno Ganz
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Bruno Ganz (March 22, 1941 – February 16, 2019) was a Swiss actor who debuted at the theatre in 1961 and gained there a good reputation as a solid, young actor. In 1970 he founded with 'Peter Stein' the theatre company "Schaubuehne" of Berlin. His debut at the movies was early and unsuccessful in 1960. Only in 1975 after "Sommergaeste (1975)" he could show his talent as a reflexive actor with tendencies towards introspection.
Known for
Credits
Heidi (2015)
as Alpöhi
Downfall (2004)
as Adolf Hitler
The Reader (2008)
as Professor Rohl
Unknown (2011)
as Ernst Jürgen
The Counselor (2013)
as Diamond Dealer
The House That Jack Built (2018)
as Verge
Wings of Desire (1987)
as Damiel
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
as Delp
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
as Jonathan Harker
Eternity and a Day (1998)
as Alexandros
Luther (2003)
as Johann von Staupitz
A Hidden Life (2019)
as Richter
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
as Professor Bruckner
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
as Horst Herold
The Party (2017)
as Godfried
Remember (2015)
as Rudy Kurlander #1
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
as Older Jorge O'Kelly
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Bread and Tulips (2000)
as Fernando Girasoli
Youth Without Youth (2007)
as Professor Stanciulescu
The American Friend (1977)
as Jonathan Zimmermann
Vitus (2006)
as Grandfather
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
as Count Perregaux
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
as Damiel
In Order of Disappearance (2014)
as Papa
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
as The Governor
Circle of Deceit (1981)
as Georg Laschen
The Absence (1993)
as Player
The Tobacconist (2018)
as Sigmund Freud
Amnesia (2015)
as Bruno
Die Mutter (1971)
Actor
Copacabana (2008)
as Herbert Schubert
Saint-Ex (1996)
as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Die Bakchen (1974)
as Pentheus
Lumière & Company (1995)
as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Epsteins Nacht (2002)
as Adam Rose
Winter Journey (2019)
as George Goldsmith
Private Resistance (1985)
as Gustav
The Witness (2019)
as Nikola Radin
The Ode to Joy (2006)
as Kurt Heinrich
Deadly Silence (1997)
as Hans Plache
The Dust of Time (2008)
as Jacob
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1988)
as Ezra Pound
Frühlings Erwachen (1966)
as Moritz Stiefel
In the White City (1983)
as Paul
The Marquise of O (1976)
as Der Graf
The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
as J.P.
Strapless (1989)
as Raymond Forbes
El río de oro (1986)
as Peter
The Architecture of Doom (1989)
as German narrator (voice)
Hands Up! (1985)
as Self (1981 footage)
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" (2005)
as Self
In Times of Fading Light (2017)
as Wilhelm Powileit
The Wild Duck (1976)
as Gregers Werle
Lumière (1976)
as Heinrich Grun
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
5% de risque (1980)
as David
Chikita (1962)
as Jazzfan
Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007)
as Self
Die Unberatenen (1966)
Actor
The Inventor (1980)
as Jakob Nüssli
Films to Die For (2025)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
Dancing Arabs (2014)
as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us (2003)
as Self
Der Spaßvogel (1964)
as Johnny
Fortuna (2018)
as Brother Jean
Il Grande Fausto (1995)
as Biagio Cavanna
The Left-Handed Woman (1978)
as Bruno
Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (1960)
as Kammerdiener
Black and White Like Day and Night (1978)
as Thomas Rosemund
Taxiphone (2010)
as Stranger
Return to the Beloved (1979)
as Dr. Stephan Kern
Of Women and Horses (2012)
as Franz Mann
The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979)
as Self
Especially on Sunday (1991)
as Vittorio
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2006)
as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
The Soft Course (1967)
as Bernhard Krahl
Knife in the Head (1978)
as Hoffmann
Summer Guests (1976)
as Jakov Shalimov
Im Dickicht der Städte (1968)
as George Garga
La provinciale (1981)
as Rémy Muller
The Day of the Cat (2010)
as Kater
Logik des Gefühls (1982)
Actor
Prague (1992)
as Josef
Night on Fire (1992)
as Peter Keller
War and Peace (1982)
Actor
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1973)
as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
A Roof Over Your Head (1962)
as Fred Weber
Polenta (1980)
Actor
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois (1982)
as Self
Children of Nature (1991)
as Engill
Closed Circuit (1983)
as Faber
Killer aus Florida (1983)
Actor
Colors in the Dark (2011)
as Fred
Der Kleine Prinz (2011)
as Geograph
Lost and Found (1980)
as Werner
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years (2008)
as Self
Behind Me (2003)
as Self
WhoAfraidWolf (2000)
Actor
Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence (2003)
as Self
A Jew Must Die (2016)
as Arthur Bloch
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary (2022)
as Self
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam (1982)
Actor
The Ignoramus and the Madman (1972)
Actor
Alias Kurban Saïd (2005)
as Narrator
Bankomatt (1989)
as Bruno
Love of a Woman (1988)
as Franco Bassani
The Power of the Past (2002)
as Bogliasco
Ein starker Abgang (2008)
as Heinz Kilian
Torquato Tasso (1969)
as Torquato Tasso
Le Quatuor des possibles (1992)
as Narrateur
Diario senza date (1995)
Actor
Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts (2015)
as Voice of Segantini
Success (1991)
as Jacques Tüverlin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II (2001)
as Faust
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones (2005)
as Peter (archive footage)
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral (1997)
as Narrator (German voice)
The End Is My Beginning (2010)
as Tiziano Terzani
Julia's Disappearance (2009)
as John
Gegen Ende der Nacht (1998)
as Fehleisen
Die Schlacht bei Lobositz (1968)
as Ulrich Braeker
To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke (2017)
Actor
Eine große Familie (1970)
as Heinz Hallasch
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution (2019)
as Narrator German (voice)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I (2001)
as Faust
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« (1986)
as Narrator
Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl (2020)
as Narrator (voice)
The End of an Eternity (2000)
as Self
You Can't Go Home Again (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler (2004)
as Self
Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes (2011)
as Narrator (voice)