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Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

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.

Born

Mar 22, 1941

Zürich, Switzerland

Died

Feb 16, 2019

Known For

Acting

Movies

131 acting

1 crew

Popularity

2.0

movie

Known For

Downfall

Downfall

2004

as Adolf Hitler
The Reader

The Reader

2008

as Professor Rohl
The House That Jack Built

The House That Jack Built

2018

as Verge
Unknown

Unknown

2011

as Ernst Jürgen
The Party

The Party

2017

as Godfried
Heidi

Heidi

2015

as Alpöhi
A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life

2019

as Richter
The Counselor

The Counselor

2013

as Diamond Dealer
Remember

Remember

2015

as Rudy Kurlander #1
Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

1987

as Damiel
Downfall
Downfall
2004 • as Adolf Hitler
★ 7.9
The Reader
The Reader
2008 • as Professor Rohl
★ 7.5
The House That Jack Built
The House That Jack Built
2018 • as Verge
★ 7.1
Unknown
Unknown
2011 • as Ernst Jürgen
★ 6.7
The Party
The Party
2017 • as Godfried
★ 6.3
Heidi
Heidi
2015 • as Alpöhi
★ 7.2
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life
2019 • as Richter
★ 7.2
The Counselor
The Counselor
2013 • as Diamond Dealer
★ 5.3
Remember
Remember
2015 • as Rudy Kurlander #1
★ 7.4
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
1987 • as Damiel
★ 7.8
The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate
2004 • as Delp
★ 6.5
Night Train to Lisbon
Night Train to Lisbon
2013 • as Older Jorge O'Kelly
★ 6.5
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 • as Jonathan Harker
★ 7.3
The Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazil
1978 • as Professor Bruckner
★ 6.7
Luther
Luther
2003 • as Johann von Staupitz
★ 6.5
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 • as (archive footage)
★ 7.5
Youth Without Youth
Youth Without Youth
2007 • as Professor Stanciulescu
★ 6.1
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008 • as Horst Herold
★ 7.0
The American Friend
The American Friend
1977 • as Jonathan Zimmermann
★ 7.1
In Order of Disappearance
In Order of Disappearance
2014 • as Papa
★ 6.9
Eternity and a Day
Eternity and a Day
1998 • as Alexandros
★ 7.8
Faraway, So Close!
Faraway, So Close!
1993 • as Damiel
★ 6.9
Bread and Tulips
Bread and Tulips
2000 • as Fernando Girasoli
★ 7.1
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013 • as The Governor
★ 5.9
The Tobacconist
The Tobacconist
2018 • as Sigmund Freud
★ 6.4
Lumière & Company
Lumière & Company
1995 • as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
★ 6.3
The Ode to Joy
The Ode to Joy
2006 • as Kurt Heinrich
★ 4.5
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 7.7
Vitus
Vitus
2006 • as Grandfather
★ 7.3
The Dust of Time
The Dust of Time
2008 • as Jacob
★ 6.3
Lady of the Camelias
Lady of the Camelias
1981 • as Count Perregaux
★ 6.0
The Marquise of O
The Marquise of O
1976 • as Der Graf
★ 6.7
Amnesia
Amnesia
2015 • as Bruno
★ 5.4
Dancing Arabs
Dancing Arabs
2014 • as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
★ 6.5
Circle of Deceit
Circle of Deceit
1981 • as Georg Laschen
★ 5.9
In Times of Fading Light
In Times of Fading Light
2017 • as Wilhelm Powileit
★ 6.6
In the White City
In the White City
1983 • as Paul
★ 6.9
Winter Journey
Winter Journey
2019 • as George Goldsmith
★ 8.0
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
2019 • as Narrator German (voice)
La provinciale
La provinciale
1981 • as Rémy Muller
★ 4.8
Strapless
Strapless
1989 • as Raymond Forbes
★ 7.5
The Architecture of Doom
The Architecture of Doom
1989 • as German narrator (voice)
★ 7.2
The Last Days of Chez Nous
The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992 • as J.P.
★ 5.5
El río de oro
El río de oro
1986 • as Peter
★ 3.7
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988 • as Ezra Pound
Fortuna
Fortuna
2018 • as Brother Jean
★ 6.8
movie
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007 • as Self
★ 4.8
A Jew Must Die
A Jew Must Die
2016 • as Arthur Bloch
★ 3.8
Especially on Sunday
Especially on Sunday
1991 • as Vittorio
★ 5.9
Of Women and Horses
Of Women and Horses
2012 • as Franz Mann
★ 5.6
movie
Success
1991 • as Jacques Tüverlin
★ 2.0
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
2006 • as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
★ 4.9
Hands Up!
Hands Up!
1985 • as Self (1981 footage)
★ 5.8
Summer Guests
Summer Guests
1976 • as Jakov Shalimov
★ 6.3
movie
Ein starker Abgang
2008 • as Heinz Kilian
★ 6.5
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
2005 • as Peter (archive footage)
★ 6.0
Night on Fire
Night on Fire
1992 • as Peter Keller
★ 2.0
Prague
Prague
1992 • as Josef
★ 6.0
Black and White Like Day and Night
Black and White Like Day and Night
1978 • as Thomas Rosemund
★ 5.9
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck
1976 • as Gregers Werle
Children of Nature
Children of Nature
1991 • as Engill
★ 5.9
Return to the Beloved
Return to the Beloved
1979 • as Dr. Stephan Kern
★ 6.0
Saint-Ex
Saint-Ex
1996 • as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
★ 2.3
Private Resistance
Private Resistance
1985 • as Gustav
★ 6.0
War and Peace
War and Peace
1982
★ 2.0
Epsteins Nacht
Epsteins Nacht
2002 • as Adam Rose
movie
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000 • as Self (archive footage)
The Left-Handed Woman
The Left-Handed Woman
1978 • as Bruno
★ 6.5
movie
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005 • as Self
Lumière
Lumière
1976 • as Heinrich Grun
★ 6.8
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003 • as Self
★ 8.3
Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
1960 • as Kammerdiener
Copacabana
Copacabana
2008 • as Herbert Schubert
★ 2.0
The End of an Eternity
The End of an Eternity
2000 • as Self
movie
Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
1968 • as Ulrich Braeker
Colors in the Dark
Colors in the Dark
2011 • as Fred
★ 5.4
The Inventor
The Inventor
1980 • as Jakob Nüssli
★ 6.3
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008 • as Self
★ 7.0
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
2001 • as Faust
★ 10.0
Gegen Ende der Nacht
Gegen Ende der Nacht
1998 • as Fehleisen
★ 3.7
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979 • as Self
★ 6.3
The Absence
The Absence
1993 • as Player
★ 5.3
movie
Frühlings Erwachen
1966 • as Moritz Stiefel
The End Is My Beginning
The End Is My Beginning
2010 • as Tiziano Terzani
★ 6.1
Knife in the Head
Knife in the Head
1978 • as Hoffmann
★ 6.0
Deadly Silence
Deadly Silence
1997 • as Hans Plache
★ 1.0
Lost and Found
Lost and Found
1980 • as Werner
★ 4.8
The Power of the Past
The Power of the Past
2002 • as Bogliasco
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022 • as Self
Bankomatt
Bankomatt
1989 • as Bruno
movie
You Can't Go Home Again
1999 • as Narrator (voice)
A Roof Over Your Head
A Roof Over Your Head
1962 • as Fred Weber
★ 7.0
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1997 • as Narrator (German voice)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
2001 • as Faust
Films to Die For
Films to Die For
2025 • as (archive footage) (uncredited)
movie
WhoAfraidWolf
2000
movie
Im Dickicht der Städte
1968 • as George Garga
The Witness
The Witness
2019 • as Nikola Radin
★ 7.0
The Day of the Cat
The Day of the Cat
2010 • as Kater
★ 4.8
Love of a Woman
Love of a Woman
1988 • as Franco Bassani
movie
Chikita
1962 • as Jazzfan
Closed Circuit
Closed Circuit
1983 • as Faber
★ 6.8
5% de risque
5% de risque
1980 • as David
★ 5.0
movie
Die Mutter
1971
Taxiphone
Taxiphone
2010 • as Stranger
★ 4.0
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
1982
Polenta
Polenta
1980
The Soft Course
The Soft Course
1967 • as Bernhard Krahl
★ 6.0
Il Grande Fausto
Il Grande Fausto
1995 • as Biagio Cavanna
★ 6.1
movie
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
1973 • as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
Alias Kurban Saïd
Alias Kurban Saïd
2005 • as Narrator
Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
2020 • as Narrator (voice)
movie
Eine große Familie
1970 • as Heinz Hallasch
movie
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982 • as Self
★ 1.0
movie
Der Spaßvogel
1964 • as Johnny
Diario senza date
Diario senza date
1995
Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
2015 • as Voice of Segantini
★ 6.5
movie
The Ignoramus and the Madman
1972
Julia's Disappearance
Julia's Disappearance
2009 • as John
★ 6.7
To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
2017
movie
Die Bakchen
1974 • as Pentheus
movie
Logik des Gefühls
1982
movie
Torquato Tasso
1969 • as Torquato Tasso
movie
Killer aus Florida
1983
movie
Bruno Ganz - Behind Me
2003 • as Self
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
1986 • as Narrator
Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
2004 • as Self
★ 6.0
movie
Die Unberatenen
1966
movie
Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
2011 • as Narrator (voice)
Le Quatuor des possibles
Le Quatuor des possibles
1992 • as Narrateur
Der Kleine Prinz
Der Kleine Prinz
2011 • as Geograph