Bruno Ganz

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-03-22 (78 years old)

Deathday

2019-02-16

Place of Birth

Zürich, Switzerland

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.

Acting

1987

2000

Bread and Tulips

as Fernando Girasoli

2004

Downfall

as Adolf Hitler

1993

1977

The American Friend

as Jonathan Zimmermann

2003

Luther

as Johann von Staupitz

1979

Nosferatu the Vampyre

as Jonathan Harker

2007

Youth Without Youth

as Professor Stanciulescu

2008

The Reader

as Professor Rohl

1998

Eternity and a Day

as Alexandros

1991

1978

2006

Vitus

as Grandfather

1978

The Boys from Brazil

as Professor Bruckner

1997

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

as Narrator (German voice)

1981

Circle of Deceit

as Georg Laschen

2012

1980

2011

Unknown

as Ernst Jürgen

1976

1979

Return to the Beloved

as Dr. Stephan Kern

2010

1995

Lumière & Company

as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

1989

The Architecture of Doom

as German narrator (voice)

1981

Lady of the Camelias

as Count Perregaux

2008

2010

The End Is My Beginning

as Tiziano Terzani

2005

1989

Strapless

as Raymond Forbes

1991

2013

The Counselor

as Diamond Dealer

1996

Saint-Ex

as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

2012

Of Women and Horses

as Franz Mann

2002

2006

2013

Night Train to Lisbon

as Older Jorge O'Kelly

1976

Lumière

as Heinrich Grun

1992

Prague

as Josef

2002

Epsteins Nacht

as Adam Rose

1985

Hands Up!

as Self (1981 footage)

2008

Ein starker Abgang

as Heinz Kilian

2010

Taxiphone

as Stranger

2008

1980

The Inventor

as Jakob Nüssli

1976

The Wild Duck

as Gregers Werle

1985

1991

Success

as Jacques Tüverlin

1964

2015

Remember

as Rudy Kurlander #1

1976

Summer Guests

as Jakov Shalimov

2000

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

as Self (archive footage)

2011

Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes

as Narrator (voice)

1980

5% de risque

as David

1968

Die Schlacht bei Lobositz

as Ulrich Braeker

1966

Frühlings Erwachen

as Moritz Stiefel

2015

1968

1962

2015

Heidi

as Alpöhi

1974

Die Bakchen

as Pentheus

1992

Night on Fire

as Peter Keller

2008

Copacabana

as Herbert Schubert

1967

Der sanfte Lauf

as Bernhard Krahl

2015

Amnesia

as Bruno

1988

Love of a Woman

as Franco Bassani

1962

Chikita

as Jazzfan

2017

The Party

as Godfried

2017

In Times of Fading Light

as Wilhelm Powileit

2019

A Hidden Life

as Richter

1986

1997

Deadly Silence

as Hans Plache

1995

Il Grande Fausto

as Biagio Cavanna

1973

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg

as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg

2006

The Ode to Joy

as Kurt Heinrich

1970

Eine große Familie

as Heinz Hallasch

2018

Fortuna

as Brother Jean

1998

2019

The Witness

as Nikola Radin

2018

The Tobacconist

as Sigmund Freud

2016

A Jew Must Die

as Arthur Bloch

2019

1993

The Absence

as Player

2019

Winter Journey

as George Goldsmith

2020

Wim Wenders, Desperado

as Self (archive footage)

1989

Bankomatt

as Bruno

2020

2005

1999

You Can't Go Home Again

as Narrator (voice)

1981

La provinciale

as Rémy Muller

2014

Dancing Arabs

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

Production

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