
Birthday
1941/03/22
Day of death
2019/02/16 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Zürich, Switzerland
Also know as
برونو گانتس
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.

(1987) Wings of Desire
as Damiel

(2000) Bread and Tulips
as Fernando Girasoli

(2004) Downfall
as Adolf Hitler

(1995) Diario senza date
as ---

(1993) Faraway, So Close!
as Damiel

(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) Children of Nature
as Engill

(2000) The End of an Eternity
as Self

(2009) Julia's Disappearance
as John

(1983) In the White City
as Paul
(1982) Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
as Self
(2005) Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
as Self

(1978) Knife in the Head
as Hoffmann

(2004) The Manchurian Candidate
as Delp

(1992) The Last Days of Chez Nous
as J.P.
(1972) The Ignoramus and the Madman
as ---

(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) Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)

(1980) Lost and Found
as Werner

(2011) Unknown
as Ernst Jürgen

(1976) The Marquise of O
as Der Graf

(1979) Return to the Beloved
as Dr. Stephan Kern

(2010) The Day of the Cat
as Kater

(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) The Dust of Time
as Jacob
(2007) Coda: Thirty Years Later
as Self

(2010) The End Is My Beginning
as Tiziano Terzani

(2011) Colors in the Dark
as Fred

(2005) Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
as Peter (archive footage)

(1989) Strapless
as Raymond Forbes

(1991) Especially on Sunday
as Vittorio

(2013) The Counselor
as Diamond Dealer

(1996) Saint-Ex
as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

(2012) Of Women and Horses
as Franz Mann

(2002) The Power of the Past
as Bogliasco

(1978) Black and White Like Day and Night
as Thomas Rosemund

(2006) Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski

(2013) Night Train to Lisbon
as Older Jorge O'Kelly

(1976) Lumière
as Heinrich Grun

(2013) Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Governor

(1992) Prague
as Josef

(2002) Epsteins Nacht
as Adam Rose

(2014) In Order of Disappearance
as Papa

(1985) Hands Up!
as Self (1981 footage)
(2008) Ein starker Abgang
as Heinz Kilian

(1980) Polenta
as ---

(2010) Taxiphone
as Stranger

(2008) The Baader Meinhof Complex
as Horst Herold

(1980) The Inventor
as Jakob Nüssli

(1978) The Left-Handed Woman
as Bruno

(1976) The Wild Duck
as Gregers Werle

(1985) Private Resistance
as Gustav
(1991) Success
as Jacques Tüverlin
(1964) Der Spaßvogel
as Johnny
(1966) Die Unberatenen
as ---

(2015) Remember
as Rudy Kurlander #1

(1976) Summer Guests
as Jakov Shalimov

(1960) Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
as Kammerdiener

(1983) System Without Shadow
as Faber
(2000) Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
as Self (archive footage)
(2011) Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
as Narrator (voice)

(1988) The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
as Ezra Pound

(2001) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
as Faust

(1980) 5% de risque
as David

(2022) Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
as Lui-même
(1968) Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
as Ulrich Braeker
(1966) Frühlings Erwachen
as Moritz Stiefel

(1982) War and Peace
as ---
(1983) Killer aus Florida
as ---

(2015) Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
as Voice of Segantini
(1968) Im Dickicht der Städte
as George Garga

(1962) A Roof Over Your Head
as Fred Weber

(2015) Heidi
as Alpöhi
(1974) Die Bakchen
as Pentheus
(1971) Die Mutter
as ---

(1992) Night on Fire
as Peter Keller

(1979) The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self

(2008) Copacabana
as Herbert Schubert
(1982) Logik des Gefühls
as ---

(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

(2019) A Hidden Life
as Richter

(2017) In Times of Fading Light
as Wilhelm Powileit

(2003) Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
as Self

(2018) The House That Jack Built
as Verge
(2000) WhoAfraidWolf
as ---

(1986) El río de oro
as Peter

(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

(1986) Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
as Narrator

(2001) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
as Faust

(2018) Fortuna
as Brother Jean

(1998) Gegen Ende der Nacht
as Fehleisen

(2019) The Witness
as Nikola Radin

(2018) The Tobacconist
as Sigmund Freud

(2016) A Jew Must Die
as Arthur Bloch

(2004) Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
as Self

(2019) The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
as Narrator German (voice)

(1993) The Absence
as Player

(2019) Winter Journey
as George Goldsmith

(2020) Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self (archive footage)

(2008) One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
as Self

(1989) Bankomatt
as Bruno

(2020) Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
as Narrator (voice)

(2005) Alias Kurban Saïd
as Narrator
(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)
(1969) Torquato Tasso
as Torquato Tasso

(1982) Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
as ---

(2025) Films to Die For
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2018) Black Baby
as Damiel (archive footage)

(2011) Der Kleine Prinz
as Geograph

(2017) To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
as ---
(1988) Anwalt Abel
as Crusius

(1970) Scene of the Crime
as Bombadil
(1991) Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
as Tassilo
(1997) Leute heute
as Self
(1964) Grimme Award
as Self

(1981) La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
as Count Perregaux
(1951) German Film Award
as Self
(1984) Goldene Kamera
as Self

(1948) Bambi
as Self
(1979) Bavarian Film Awards
as Self
(2015) Spiel für dein Land
as Self
(2003) Menschen bei Maischberger
as Self

(1991) Boulevard Bio
as Self

(2002) Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
as Self

(2004) Kulturplatz
as Self

(1963) Zur Person
as Self
(2003) Our Best
as Self

(1986) Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy
as Heinrich Beck
(2020) Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
as Self