Bruno Ganz

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1941-03-22

Place of Birth

Zürich, Switzerland
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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.

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Acting History

2025
Films to Die For as (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
The House That Jack Built as Verge
2018
Fortuna as Brother Jean
2018
Black Baby as Damiel (archive footage)
2017
To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
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
Dancing Arabs as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
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
Der Kleine Prinz as Geograph
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 as Self
1983
System Without Shadow as Faber
1983
Killer aus Florida
1983
In the White City as Paul
1982
Logik des Gefühls
1982
War and Peace
1982
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois as Self
1982
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
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
Bavarian Film Awards 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
1978
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
1969
Torquato Tasso as Torquato Tasso
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 Award 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
German Film Award as Self
1948
Bambi as Self