Bruno Ganz

ActorDirector Mar 22 (died age 77) Zürich, Switzerland 1948–2025 (77 year career)

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Biography

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

Film

Downfall

Adolf Hitler

Film

The Reader

Professor Rohl

Film

Wings of Desire

Damiel

Film

The House That Jack Built

Verge

Film

Unknown

Ernst Jürgen

Film

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Jonathan Harker

Film

Remember

Rudy Kurlander #1

Film

The Manchurian Candidate

Delp

Filmography

Acting (149)

Movies (130)

Films to Die For

2025

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary

2022

as Lui-même

Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl

2020

as Narrator (voice)

Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020

as Self (archive footage)

A Hidden Life

as Richter

The Witness

as Nikola Radin

Winter Journey

as George Goldsmith

The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution

2019

as Narrator German (voice)

The House That Jack Built

as Verge

The Tobacconist

as Sigmund Freud

Fortuna

as Brother Jean

The Party

as Godfried

In Times of Fading Light

2017

as Wilhelm Powileit

6.6

To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke

A Jew Must Die

as Arthur Bloch

Heidi

as Alpöhi

Remember

as Rudy Kurlander #1

Amnesia

as Bruno

Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts

2015

as Voice of Segantini

6.5

In Order of Disappearance

2014

as Papa

6.9

Dancing Arabs

2014

as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)

6.4

The Counselor

2013

as Diamond Dealer

5.3

Night Train to Lisbon

2013

as Older Jorge O'Kelly

6.5

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

2013

as The Governor

5.9

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

Of Women and Horses

as Franz Mann

Unknown

as Ernst Jürgen

Colors in the Dark

as Fred

Der Kleine Prinz

as Geograph

Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes

2011

as Narrator (voice)

The Day of the Cat

as Kater

Taxiphone

as Stranger

The End Is My Beginning

2010

as Tiziano Terzani

6.1

Julia's Disappearance

as John

The Reader

as Professor Rohl

The Baader Meinhof Complex

as Horst Herold

The Dust of Time

as Jacob

Copacabana

as Herbert Schubert

One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

as Self

Ein starker Abgang

as Heinz Kilian

Youth Without Youth

as Professor Stanciulescu

6.1

Coda: Thirty Years Later

as Self

Vitus

as Grandfather

The Ode to Joy

as Kurt Heinrich

Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II

2006

as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski

4.9

Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"

2005

as Self

Alias Kurban Saïd

2005

as Narrator

Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones

2005

as Peter (archive footage)

6.0

Downfall

2004

as Adolf Hitler

7.9

The Manchurian Candidate

2004

as Delp

6.5

Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler

2004

as Self

6.0

Luther

2003

as Johann von Staupitz

6.4

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

2003

as Self

8.3

The Power of the Past

2002

as Bogliasco

Epsteins Nacht

2002

as Adam Rose

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I

2001

as Faust

10.0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II

2001

as Faust

The End of an Eternity

2000

as Self

Bread and Tulips

2000

as Fernando Girasoli

7.1

WhoAfraidWolf

2000

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

2000

as Self (archive footage)

You Can't Go Home Again

1999

as Narrator (voice)

Eternity and a Day

as Alexandros

Gegen Ende der Nacht

as Fehleisen

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

1997

as Narrator (German voice)

Deadly Silence

1997

as Hans Plache

1.0

Saint-Ex

1996

as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

2.3

Lumière & Company

1995

as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Il Grande Fausto

as Biagio Cavanna

Diario senza date

Faraway, So Close!

as Damiel

The Absence

as Player

Prague

as Josef

Night on Fire

as Peter Keller

The Last Days of Chez Nous

1992

as J.P.

5.5

Le Quatuor des possibles

1992

as Narrateur

Children of Nature

as Engill

Especially on Sunday

as Vittorio

Success

as Jacques Tüverlin

Bankomatt

as Bruno

Strapless

1989

as Raymond Forbes

7.5

The Architecture of Doom

1989

as German narrator (voice)

7.2

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

1988

as Ezra Pound

Love of a Woman

1988

as Franco Bassani

Wings of Desire

as Damiel

El río de oro

as Peter

Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«

1986

as Narrator

Hands Up!

1985

as Self (1981 footage)

Private Resistance

as Gustav

Killer aus Florida

In the White City

as Paul

Closed Circuit

as Faber

War and Peace

Logik des Gefühls

Before Your Eyes - Vietnam

1982

Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois

as Self

Circle of Deceit

as Georg Laschen

Lady of the Camelias

as Count Perregaux

La provinciale

as Rémy Muller

5% de risque

as David

Polenta

The Inventor

as Jakob Nüssli

Lost and Found

as Werner

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

as Jonathan Harker

7.3

Return to the Beloved

1979

as Dr. Stephan Kern

6.0

The Making of 'Nosferatu'

1979

as Self

6.3

The Boys from Brazil

1978

as Professor Bruckner

6.7

The Left-Handed Woman

1978

as Bruno

6.5

Black and White Like Day and Night

as Thomas Rosemund

Knife in the Head

as Hoffmann

The American Friend

as Jonathan Zimmermann

7.1

The Wild Duck

1976

as Gregers Werle

Summer Guests

as Jakov Shalimov

The Marquise of O

as Der Graf

Lumière

as Heinrich Grun

Die Bakchen

as Pentheus

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg

1973

as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg

The Ignoramus and the Madman

1972

Die Mutter

1971

Eine große Familie

1970

as Heinz Hallasch

Torquato Tasso

1969

as Torquato Tasso

Im Dickicht der Städte

1968

as George Garga

Die Schlacht bei Lobositz

1968

as Ulrich Braeker

The Soft Course

as Bernhard Krahl

Die Unberatenen

Frühlings Erwachen

as Moritz Stiefel

Der Spaßvogel

1964

as Johnny

Chikita

1962

as Jazzfan

A Roof Over Your Head

1962

as Fred Weber

7.0

Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone

1960

as Kammerdiener

Television (19)

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

2020

as Self

10.0

Spiel für dein Land

2015

as Self

Kulturplatz

2004

as Self

6.0

Menschen bei Maischberger

2003

as Self

6.3

Our Best

2003

as Self

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

2002

as Self

Leute heute

as Self

Boulevard Bio

as Self

Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich

1991

as Tassilo

Anwalt Abel

1988

as Crusius

Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy

1986

as Heinrich Beck

Goldene Kamera

1984

as Self

5.7

La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie

1981

as Count Perregaux

4.0

Bavarian Film Awards

1979

as Self

Scene of the Crime

1970

as Bombadil

6.2

Grimme Award

1964

as Self

Zur Person

1963

as Self

German Film Award

as Self

Bambi

as Self

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois

1982

Director

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