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
The Reader (2008)
as Professor Rohl
The Counselor (2013)
as Diamond Dealer
The House That Jack Built (2018)
as Verge
Unknown (2011)
as Ernst Jürgen
Downfall (2004)
as Adolf Hitler
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
as Delp
Wings of Desire (1987)
as Damiel
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
as Jonathan Harker
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
as Older Jorge O'Kelly
Youth Without Youth (2007)
as Professor Stanciulescu
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
as Professor Bruckner
A Hidden Life (2019)
as Richter
The American Friend (1977)
as Jonathan Zimmermann
Luther (2003)
as Johann von Staupitz
In Order of Disappearance (2014)
as Papa
Remember (2015)
as Rudy Kurlander #1
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
as Horst Herold
Eternity and a Day (1998)
as Alexandros
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
as The Governor
Deadly Silence (1997)
as Hans Plache
Frühlings Erwachen (1966)
as Moritz Stiefel
The Party (2017)
as Godfried
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
as Damiel
Vitus (2006)
as Grandfather
Der Spaßvogel (1964)
as Johnny
Lumière & Company (1995)
as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
El río de oro (1986)
as Peter
Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler (2004)
as Self
Bread and Tulips (2000)
as Fernando Girasoli
A Roof Over Your Head (1962)
as Fred Weber
The Tobacconist (2018)
as Sigmund Freud
The Absence (1993)
as Player
Circle of Deceit (1981)
as Georg Laschen
The Architecture of Doom (1989)
as German narrator (voice)
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« (1986)
as Narrator
Summer Guests (1976)
as Jakov Shalimov
The Dust of Time (2008)
as Jacob
Behind Me (2003)
as Self
Antipasti Umbro (2000)
Actor
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
as Count Perregaux
Im Dickicht der Städte (1968)
as George Garga
The Marquise of O (1976)
as Der Graf
Polenta (1980)
Actor
Bankomatt (1989)
as Bruno
The Left-Handed Woman (1978)
as Bruno
Die Mutter (1971)
Actor
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Die Bakchen (1974)
as Pentheus
Taxiphone (2010)
as Stranger
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1988)
as Ezra Pound
Epsteins Nacht (2002)
as Adam Rose
Private Resistance (1985)
as Gustav
In the White City (1983)
as Paul
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
WhoAfraidWolf (2000)
Actor
Fortuna (2018)
as Brother Jean
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary (2022)
as Self
Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007)
as Self
Especially on Sunday (1991)
as Vittorio
Hitler's Final Days: The Movie 'Downfall' (2005)
as Self
The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
as J.P.
Alias Kurban Saïd (2005)
as Narrator
Le Quatuor des possibles (1992)
as Narrateur
Copacabana (2008)
as Herbert Schubert
Winter Journey (2019)
as George Goldsmith
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2006)
as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
Children of Nature (1991)
as Engill
Saint-Ex (1996)
as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Amnesia (2015)
as Bruno
Black and White Like Day and Night (1978)
as Thomas Rosemund
Chikita (1962)
as Jazzfan
Il Grande Fausto (1995)
as Biagio Cavanna
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us (2003)
as Self
Knife in the Head (1978)
as Hoffmann
The Day of the Cat (2010)
as Kater
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years (2008)
as Self
The Inventor (1980)
as Jakob Nüssli
Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence (2003)
as Self
Colors in the Dark (2011)
as Fred
The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979)
as Self
The Witness (2019)
as Nikola Radin
Strapless (1989)
as Raymond Forbes
Die Unberatenen (1966)
Actor
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam (1982)
Actor
In Times of Fading Light (2017)
as Wilhelm Powileit
The End Is My Beginning (2010)
as Tiziano Terzani
Killer aus Florida (1983)
Actor
Julia's Disappearance (2009)
as John
The Ode to Joy (2006)
as Kurt Heinrich
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones (2005)
as Peter (archive footage)
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1973)
as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
Der Kleine Prinz (2011)
as Geograph
5% de risque (1980)
as David
Hands Up! (1985)
as Self (1981 footage)
Of Women and Horses (2012)
as Franz Mann
Prague (1992)
as Josef
The Ignoramus and the Madman (1972)
Actor
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution (2019)
as Narrator German (voice)
Ein starker Abgang (2008)
as Heinz Kilian
Lumière (1976)
as Heinrich Grun
La provinciale (1981)
as Rémy Muller
Films to Die For (2025)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dancing Arabs (2014)
as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
Die Schlacht bei Lobositz (1968)
as Ulrich Braeker
Return to the Beloved (1979)
as Dr. Stephan Kern
Eine große Familie (1970)
as Heinz Hallasch
The Power of the Past (2002)
as Bogliasco
Torquato Tasso (1969)
as Torquato Tasso
To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke (2017)
Actor
Success (1991)
as Jacques Tüverlin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I (2001)
as Faust
Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts (2015)
as Voice of Segantini
War and Peace (1982)
Actor
Love of a Woman (1988)
as Franco Bassani
Closed Circuit (1983)
as Faber
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II (2001)
as Faust
Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes (2011)
as Narrator (voice)
The Wild Duck (1976)
as Gregers Werle
The Soft Course (1967)
as Bernhard Krahl
Logik des Gefühls (1982)
Actor
Gegen Ende der Nacht (1998)
as Fehleisen
Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl (2020)
as Narrator (voice)
Lost and Found (1980)
as Werner
Beethoven - Egmont, Mozart - Symphony 35 - Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (2015)
Actor
Diario senza date (1995)
Actor
Night on Fire (1992)
as Peter Keller
A Jew Must Die (2016)
as Arthur Bloch
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral (1997)
as Narrator (German voice)
Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (1960)
as Kammerdiener
You Can't Go Home Again (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
The End of an Eternity (2000)
as Self
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois (1982)
as Self