Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

142

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-03-22

Deathday

2019-02-16 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Zürich, Switzerland

Also Known As

برونو گانتس

Bruno Ganz

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

7.9%

Downfall

Sep 16, 2004

6.7%

Unknown

Feb 16, 2011

7.5%

The Reader

Dec 10, 2008

7.1%

The House That Jack Built

Jul 5, 2018

5.3%

The Counselor

Oct 25, 2013

6.5%

The Manchurian Candidate

Jul 30, 2004

7.8%

Wings of Desire

Sep 23, 1987

7.3%

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Jan 17, 1979

7.4%

Remember

Oct 23, 2015

7.1%

A Hidden Life

Aug 27, 2019

6.9%

In Order of Disappearance

Feb 21, 2014

7.0%

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Sep 25, 2008

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Acting

2022

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary as Lui-même

2020		Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen as Self
2020		Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl as Narrator (voice)
2020		Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)

2019		Winter Journey as George Goldsmith
2019		The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution as Narrator German (voice)
2019		A Hidden Life as Richter
2019		The Witness as Nikola Radin

2018		The Tobacconist as Sigmund Freud
2018		Fortuna as Brother Jean
2018		The House That Jack Built as Verge

2017		The Party as Godfried
2017		In Times of Fading Light as Wilhelm Powileit

2016

A Jew Must Die as Arthur Bloch

2015		Heidi as Alpöhi
2015		Spiel für dein Land as Self
2015		Remember as Rudy Kurlander #1
2015		Amnesia as Bruno
2015		Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts as Voice of Segantini

2014

In Order of Disappearance as Papa

2013		The Counselor as Diamond Dealer
2013		Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Governor
2013		Night Train to Lisbon as Older Jorge O'Kelly

2012		Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2012		Of Women and Horses as Franz Mann

2011		Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes as Narrator (voice)
2011		Unknown as Ernst Jürgen
2011		Colors in the Dark as Fred

2010		The End Is My Beginning as Tiziano Terzani
2010		Taxiphone as Stranger
2010		The Day of the Cat as Kater

2009

Julia's Disappearance as John

2008		The Reader as Professor Rohl
2008		The Dust of Time as Jacob
2008		The Baader Meinhof Complex as Horst Herold
2008		Ein starker Abgang as Heinz Kilian
2008		Copacabana as Herbert Schubert
2008		One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years as Self

2007		Coda: Thirty Years Later as Self
2007		Youth Without Youth as Professor Stanciulescu

2006		The Ode to Joy as Kurt Heinrich
2006		Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
2006		Vitus as Grandfather

2005		Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones as Peter (archive footage)
2005		Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" as Self
2005		Alias Kurban Saïd as Narrator

2004		Downfall as Adolf Hitler
2004		Kulturplatz as Self
2004		The Manchurian Candidate as Delp
2004		Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler as Self

2003		Our Best as Self
2003		Luther as Johann von Staupitz
2003		Menschen bei Maischberger as Self
2003		Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us as Self

2002		Epsteins Nacht as Adam Rose
2002		The Power of the Past as Bogliasco
2002		Das Jahrhundert des Theaters as Self

2001		Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II as Faust
2001		Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I as Faust

2000		The End of an Eternity as Self
2000		Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor as Self (archive footage)
2000		Bread and Tulips as Fernando Girasoli
2000		WhoAfraidWolf

1999

You Can't Go Home Again as Narrator (voice)

1998		Eternity and a Day as Alexandros
1998		Gegen Ende der Nacht as Fehleisen

1997		St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral as Narrator (German voice)
1997		Leute heute as Self
1997		Deadly Silence as Hans Plache

1996

Saint-Ex as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1995		Lumière & Company as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
1995		Il Grande Fausto as Biagio Cavanna
1995		Diario senza date

1993		Faraway, So Close! as Damiel
1993		The Absence as Player

1992		Night on Fire as Peter Keller
1992		The Last Days of Chez Nous as J.P.
1992		Prague as Josef

1991		Especially on Sunday as Vittorio
1991		Boulevard Bio as Self
1991		Children of Nature as Engill
1991		Success as Jacques Tüverlin
1991		Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich as Tassilo

1989		The Architecture of Doom as German narrator (voice)
1989		Strapless as Raymond Forbes
1989		Bankomatt as Bruno

1988		Anwalt Abel as Crusius
1988		Love of a Woman as Franco Bassani
1988		The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway as Ezra Pound

1987

Wings of Desire as Damiel

1986		Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy as Heinrich Beck
1986		Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« as Narrator
1986		El río de oro as Peter

1985		Private Resistance as Gustav
1985		Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)

1984

Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self

1983		System Without Shadow as Faber
1983		Killer aus Florida
1983		In the White City as Paul

1982		Logik des Gefühls
1982		Krieg und Frieden
1982		Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti as Self

1981		Circle of Deceit as Georg Laschen
1981		Lady of the Camelias as Count Perregaux
1981		La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie as Count Perregaux
1981		La provinciale as Rémy Muller

1980		The Inventor as Jakob Nüssli
1980		Polenta
1980		5% de risque as David
1980		Lost and Found as Werner

1979		Bayerischer Filmpreis as Self
1979		The Making of 'Nosferatu' as Self
1979		Return to the Beloved as Dr. Stephan Kern
1979		Nosferatu the Vampyre as Jonathan Harker

1978		Knife in the Head as Hoffmann
1978		Black and White Like Day and Night as Thomas Rosemund
1978		The Boys from Brazil as Professor Bruckner

1977		The Left-Handed Woman as Bruno
1977		The American Friend as Jonathan Zimmermann

1976		The Wild Duck as Gregers Werle
1976		The Marquise of O as Der Graf
1976		Lumière as Heinrich Grun
1976		Summer Guests as Jakov Shalimov

1974

Die Bakchen as Pentheus

1973

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg

1972

The Ignoramus and the Madman

1971

Die Mutter

1970		Scene of the Crime as Bombadil
1970		Eine große Familie as Heinz Hallasch

1968		Im Dickicht der Städte as George Garga
1968		Die Schlacht bei Lobositz as Ulrich Braeker

1967

Der sanfte Lauf as Bernhard Krahl

1966		Die Unberatenen
1966		Frühlings Erwachen as Moritz Stiefel

1964		Der Spaßvogel as Johnny
1964		Grimme Awards Ceremony as Self

1963

Zur Person as Self

1962		Chikita as Jazzfan
1962		A Roof Over Your Head as Fred Weber

1960

Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone as Kammerdiener

1951

Deutscher Filmpreis as Self

1948

BAMBI Awards as Self

Directing

1982

Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti as Director