Bruno Ganz

Known for: Acting
Born: March 22, 1941, Zürich, Switzerland
Died: February 16, 2019
Movies: 134

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.9

Downfall

2004

6.7

Unknown

2011

7.5

The Reader

2008

7.1

The House That Jack Built

2018

5.3

The Counselor

2013

6.5

The Manchurian Candidate

2004

7.8

Wings of Desire

1987

7.3

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

7.2

A Hidden Life

2019

7.3

Remember

2015

Filmography

2025	Films to Die For	(archive footage) (uncredited)
2022	Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary	Self
2020	Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl	Narrator (voice)
2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado	Self (archive footage)
2019	Winter Journey	George Goldsmith
2019	The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution	Narrator German (voice)
2019	A Hidden Life	Richter
2019	The Witness	Nikola Radin
2018	The Tobacconist	Sigmund Freud
2018	The House That Jack Built	Verge
2018	Fortuna	Brother Jean
2017	To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
2017	The Party	Godfried
2017	In Times of Fading Light	Wilhelm Powileit
2016	A Jew Must Die	Arthur Bloch
2015	Heidi	Alpöhi
2015	Remember	Rudy Kurlander #1
2015	Amnesia	Bruno
2015	Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts	Voice of Segantini
2015	Beethoven - Egmont, Mozart - Symphony 35 - Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
2014	Dancing Arabs	Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
2014	In Order of Disappearance	Papa
2013	The Counselor	Diamond Dealer
2013	Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas	The Governor
2013	Night Train to Lisbon	Older Jorge O'Kelly
2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)
2012	Of Women and Horses	Franz Mann
2011	Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes	Narrator (voice)
2011	Der Kleine Prinz	Geograph
2011	Unknown	Ernst Jürgen
2011	Colors in the Dark	Fred
2010	The End Is My Beginning	Tiziano Terzani
2010	Taxiphone	Stranger
2010	The Day of the Cat	Kater
2009	Julia's Disappearance	John
2008	The Reader	Professor Rohl
2008	The Dust of Time	Jacob
2008	The Baader Meinhof Complex	Horst Herold
2008	Ein starker Abgang	Heinz Kilian
2008	Copacabana	Herbert Schubert
2008	One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years	Self
2007	Coda: Thirty Years Later	Self
2007	Youth Without Youth	Professor Stanciulescu
2006	The Ode to Joy	Kurt Heinrich
2006	Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II	Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
2006	Vitus	Grandfather
2005	Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones	Peter (archive footage)
2005	Hitler's Final Days: The Movie 'Downfall'	Self
2005	Alias Kurban Saïd	Narrator
2004	Downfall	Adolf Hitler
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Delp
2004	Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler	Self
2003	Luther	Johann von Staupitz
2003	Behind Me	Self
2003	Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence	Self
2003	Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us	Self
2002	Epsteins Nacht	Adam Rose
2002	The Power of the Past	Bogliasco
2001	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II	Faust
2001	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I	Faust
2000	The End of an Eternity	Self
2000	Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor	Self (archive footage)
2000	Bread and Tulips	Fernando Girasoli
2000	WhoAfraidWolf
2000	Antipasto Umbro
1999	You Can't Go Home Again	Narrator (voice)
1998	Eternity and a Day	Alexandros
1998	Gegen Ende der Nacht	Fehleisen
1997	St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral	Narrator (German voice)
1997	Deadly Silence	Hans Plache
1996	Saint-Ex	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1995	Lumière & Company	Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
1995	Diario senza date
1993	Faraway, So Close!	Damiel
1993	The Absence	Player
1992	Night on Fire	Peter Keller
1992	The Last Days of Chez Nous	J.P.
1992	Prague	Josef
1992	Le Quatuor des possibles	Narrateur
1991	Especially on Sunday	Vittorio
1991	Children of Nature	Engill
1991	Success	Jacques Tüverlin
1989	The Architecture of Doom	German narrator (voice)
1989	Strapless	Raymond Forbes
1989	Bankomatt	Bruno
1988	Love of a Woman	Franco Bassani
1988	The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway	Ezra Pound
1987	Wings of Desire	Damiel
1986	Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«	Narrator
1986	El río de oro	Peter
1985	Private Resistance	Gustav
1985	Hands Up!	Self (1981 footage)
1983	Closed Circuit	Faber
1983	Killer aus Florida
1983	In the White City	Paul
1982	Logik des Gefühls
1982	War and Peace
1982	Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois	Self
1982	Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
1981	Circle of Deceit	Georg Laschen
1981	Lady of the Camelias	Count Perregaux
1981	La provinciale	Rémy Muller
1980	The Inventor	Jakob Nüssli
1980	Polenta
1980	5% de risque	David
1980	Lost and Found	Werner
1979	The Making of 'Nosferatu'	Self
1979	Return to the Beloved	Dr. Stephan Kern
1979	Nosferatu the Vampyre	Jonathan Harker
1978	Knife in the Head	Hoffmann
1978	Black and White Like Day and Night	Thomas Rosemund
1978	The Boys from Brazil	Professor Bruckner
1978	The Left-Handed Woman	Bruno
1977	The American Friend	Jonathan Zimmermann
1976	The Wild Duck	Gregers Werle
1976	The Marquise of O	Der Graf
1976	Lumière	Heinrich Grun
1976	Summer Guests	Jakov Shalimov
1974	Die Bakchen	Pentheus
1973	Prinz Friedrich von Homburg	Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
1972	The Ignoramus and the Madman
1971	Die Mutter
1970	Eine große Familie	Heinz Hallasch
1969	Torquato Tasso	Torquato Tasso
1968	Im Dickicht der Städte	George Garga
1968	Die Schlacht bei Lobositz	Ulrich Braeker
1967	The Soft Course	Bernhard Krahl
1966	Die Unberatenen
1966	Frühlings Erwachen	Moritz Stiefel
1964	Der Spaßvogel	Johnny
1962	Chikita	Jazzfan
1962	A Roof Over Your Head	Fred Weber
1960	Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone	Kammerdiener

Directing, Writing & Producing

1982

Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois

Director

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