Bruno Ganz

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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

Downfall

Adolf Hitler

Unknown

Ernst Jürgen

The Reader

Professor Rohl

The House That Jack Built

Verge

The Counselor

Diamond Dealer

The Manchurian Candidate

Delp

Wings of Desire

Damiel

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Jonathan Harker

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	Films to Die For MOVIE	(archive footage) (uncredited)
2022	Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary MOVIE	Lui-même
2020	Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen TV	Self
2020	Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	Winter Journey MOVIE	George Goldsmith
2019	The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution MOVIE	Narrator German (voice)
2019	A Hidden Life MOVIE	Richter
2019	The Witness MOVIE	Nikola Radin
2018	The Tobacconist MOVIE	Sigmund Freud
2018	The House That Jack Built MOVIE	Verge
2018	Fortuna MOVIE	Brother Jean
2017	To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke MOVIE	Self
2017	The Party MOVIE	Godfried
2017	In Times of Fading Light MOVIE	Wilhelm Powileit
2016	A Jew Must Die MOVIE	Arthur Bloch
2015	Heidi MOVIE	Alpöhi
2015	Spiel für dein Land TV	Self
2015	Remember MOVIE	Rudy Kurlander #1
2015	Amnesia MOVIE	Bruno
2015	Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts MOVIE	Voice of Segantini
2014	Dancing Arabs MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
2014	In Order of Disappearance MOVIE	Papa
2013	The Counselor MOVIE	Diamond Dealer
2013	Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas MOVIE	The Governor
2013	Night Train to Lisbon MOVIE	Older Jorge O'Kelly
2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen MOVIE	(archive footage)
2012	Of Women and Horses MOVIE	Franz Mann
2011	Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2011	Der Kleine Prinz MOVIE	Geograph
2011	Unknown MOVIE	Ernst Jürgen
2011	Colors in the Dark MOVIE	Fred
2010	The End Is My Beginning MOVIE	Tiziano Terzani
2010	Taxiphone MOVIE	Stranger
2010	The Day of the Cat MOVIE	Kater
2009	Julia's Disappearance MOVIE	John
2008	The Reader MOVIE	Professor Rohl
2008	The Dust of Time MOVIE	Jacob
2008	The Baader Meinhof Complex MOVIE	Horst Herold
2008	Ein starker Abgang MOVIE	Heinz Kilian
2008	Copacabana MOVIE	Herbert Schubert
2008	One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years MOVIE	Self
2007	Coda: Thirty Years Later MOVIE	Self
2007	Youth Without Youth MOVIE	Professor Stanciulescu
2006	The Ode to Joy MOVIE	Kurt Heinrich
2006	Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II MOVIE	Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
2006	Vitus MOVIE	Grandfather
2005	Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones MOVIE	Peter (archive footage)
2005	Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" MOVIE	Self
2005	Alias Kurban Saïd MOVIE	Narrator
2004	Downfall MOVIE	Adolf Hitler
2004	Kulturplatz TV	Self
2004	The Manchurian Candidate MOVIE	Delp
2004	Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler MOVIE	Self
2003	Our Best TV	Self
2003	Luther MOVIE	Johann von Staupitz
2003	Menschen bei Maischberger TV	Self
2003	Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us MOVIE	Self
2002	Epsteins Nacht MOVIE	Adam Rose
2002	The Power of the Past MOVIE	Bogliasco
2002	Das Jahrhundert des Theaters TV	Self
2001	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II MOVIE	Faust
2001	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I MOVIE	Faust
2000	The End of an Eternity MOVIE	Self
2000	Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2000	Bread and Tulips MOVIE	Fernando Girasoli
2000	WhoAfraidWolf MOVIE	Self
1999	You Can't Go Home Again MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1998	Eternity and a Day MOVIE	Alexandros
1998	Gegen Ende der Nacht MOVIE	Fehleisen
1997	St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral MOVIE	Narrator (German voice)
1997	Leute heute TV	Self
1997	Deadly Silence MOVIE	Hans Plache
1996	Saint-Ex MOVIE	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1995	Lumière & Company MOVIE	Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
1995	Il Grande Fausto MOVIE	Biagio Cavanna
1995	Diario senza date MOVIE	Self
1993	Faraway, So Close! MOVIE	Damiel
1993	The Absence MOVIE	Player
1992	Night on Fire MOVIE	Peter Keller
1992	The Last Days of Chez Nous MOVIE	J.P.
1992	Prague MOVIE	Josef
1992	Le Quatuor des possibles MOVIE	Narrateur
1991	Especially on Sunday MOVIE	Vittorio
1991	Boulevard Bio TV	Self
1991	Children of Nature MOVIE	Engill
1991	Success MOVIE	Jacques Tüverlin
1991	Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich TV	Tassilo
1989	The Architecture of Doom MOVIE	German narrator (voice)
1989	Strapless MOVIE	Raymond Forbes
1989	Bankomatt MOVIE	Bruno
1988	Anwalt Abel TV	Crusius
1988	Love of a Woman MOVIE	Franco Bassani
1988	The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway MOVIE	Ezra Pound
1987	Wings of Desire MOVIE	Damiel
1986	Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy TV	Heinrich Beck
1986	Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« MOVIE	Narrator
1986	El río de oro MOVIE	Peter
1985	Private Resistance MOVIE	Gustav
1985	Hands Up! MOVIE	Self (1981 footage)
1984	Goldene Kamera TV	Self
1983	Closed Circuit MOVIE	Faber
1983	Killer aus Florida MOVIE	Self
1983	In the White City MOVIE	Paul
1982	Logik des Gefühls MOVIE	Self
1982	War and Peace MOVIE	Self
1982	Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois MOVIE	Self
1982	Before Your Eyes - Vietnam MOVIE	Self
1981	Circle of Deceit MOVIE	Georg Laschen
1981	Lady of the Camelias MOVIE	Count Perregaux
1981	La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie TV	Count Perregaux
1981	La provinciale MOVIE	Rémy Muller
1980	The Inventor MOVIE	Jakob Nüssli
1980	Polenta MOVIE	Self
1980	5% de risque MOVIE	David
1980	Lost and Found MOVIE	Werner
1979	Bavarian Film Awards TV	Self
1979	The Making of 'Nosferatu' MOVIE	Self
1979	Return to the Beloved MOVIE	Dr. Stephan Kern
1979	Nosferatu the Vampyre MOVIE	Jonathan Harker
1978	Knife in the Head MOVIE	Hoffmann
1978	Black and White Like Day and Night MOVIE	Thomas Rosemund
1978	The Boys from Brazil MOVIE	Professor Bruckner
1978	The Left-Handed Woman MOVIE	Bruno
1977	The American Friend MOVIE	Jonathan Zimmermann
1976	The Wild Duck MOVIE	Gregers Werle
1976	The Marquise of O MOVIE	Der Graf
1976	Lumière MOVIE	Heinrich Grun
1976	Summer Guests MOVIE	Jakov Shalimov
1974	Die Bakchen MOVIE	Pentheus
1973	Prinz Friedrich von Homburg MOVIE	Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
1972	The Ignoramus and the Madman MOVIE	Self
1971	Die Mutter MOVIE	Self
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Bombadil
1970	Eine große Familie MOVIE	Heinz Hallasch
1969	Torquato Tasso MOVIE	Torquato Tasso
1968	Im Dickicht der Städte MOVIE	George Garga
1968	Die Schlacht bei Lobositz MOVIE	Ulrich Braeker
1967	The Soft Course MOVIE	Bernhard Krahl
1966	Die Unberatenen MOVIE	Self
1966	Frühlings Erwachen MOVIE	Moritz Stiefel
1964	Der Spaßvogel MOVIE	Johnny
1964	Grimme Award TV	Self
1963	Zur Person TV	Self
1962	Chikita MOVIE	Jazzfan
1962	A Roof Over Your Head MOVIE	Fred Weber
1960	Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone MOVIE	Kammerdiener
1951	German Film Award TV	Self
1948	Bambi TV	Self

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