
Bruno Ganz
Known for Acting · 153 credits
- Born
- 1941-03-22
- Died
- 2019-02-16
- Place of birth
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Also known as
- برونو گانتس
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
TV Shows (21)

Scene of the Crime
1970
as Bombadil

Leute heute
1997
as Self

Screen Two
1985
as Josef

Bambi
1948
as Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self

Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
Grimme Award
1964
as Self

Boulevard Bio
1991
as Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self

Zur Person
1963
as Self
Our Best
2003
as Self
Anwalt Abel
1988
as Crusius

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002
as Self
Spiel für dein Land
2015
as Self
Sternstunde Kunst
1998
as Self

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

La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
1981
as Count Perregaux
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
1991
as Tassilo
Movies (132)

Heidi
2015
as Alpöhi

Downfall
2004
as Adolf Hitler

The Reader
2008
as Professor Rohl

Unknown
2011
as Ernst Jürgen

The House That Jack Built
2018
as Verge

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

The Counselor
2013
as Diamond Dealer

Wings of Desire
1987
as Damiel

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)

The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Delp

Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
as Jonathan Harker

The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Professor Bruckner

Luther
2003
as Johann von Staupitz

A Hidden Life
2019
as Richter

Remember
2015
as Rudy Kurlander #1

The American Friend
1977
as Jonathan Zimmermann

Youth Without Youth
2007
as Professor Stanciulescu

In Order of Disappearance
2014
as Papa

Eternity and a Day
1998
as Alexandros

The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
as Horst Herold

The Party
2017
as Godfried

Faraway, So Close!
1993
as Damiel

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

Night Train to Lisbon
2013
as Older Jorge O'Kelly

Lumière & Company
1995
as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Vitus
2006
as Grandfather

Bankomatt
1989
as Bruno

Bread and Tulips
2000
as Fernando Girasoli

Black and White Like Day and Night
1978
as Thomas Rosemund

Strapless
1989
as Raymond Forbes

In Times of Fading Light
2017
as Wilhelm Powileit

In the White City
1983
as Paul

Lady of the Camelias
1981
as Count Perregaux

The Tobacconist
2018
as Sigmund Freud

Especially on Sunday
1991
as Vittorio

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
as Ezra Pound

Circle of Deceit
1981
as Georg Laschen

Amnesia
2015
as Bruno

Julia's Disappearance
2009
as John

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007
as Self
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005
as Self

Dancing Arabs
2014
as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
as Self (archive footage)

Summer Guests
1976
as Jakov Shalimov

Hands Up!
1985
as Self (1981 footage)

The Ode to Joy
2006
as Kurt Heinrich

Saint-Ex
1996
as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Il Grande Fausto
1995
as Biagio Cavanna

The Witness
2019
as Nikola Radin

El río de oro
1986
as Peter

Knife in the Head
1978
as Hoffmann
Success
1991
as Jacques Tüverlin

The Left-Handed Woman
1978
as Bruno

The Dust of Time
2008
as Jacob

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

Lost and Found
1980
as Werner

Prague
1992
as Josef

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

Epsteins Nacht
2002
as Adam Rose

Return to the Beloved
1979
as Dr. Stephan Kern

Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
2004
as Self

Fortuna
2018
as Brother Jean

Lumière
1976
as Heinrich Grun

Love of a Woman
1988
as Franco Bassani
The Ignoramus and the Madman
1972

Films to Die For
2025
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Killer aus Florida
1983

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003
as Self

Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022
as Self

The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992
as J.P.

The Architecture of Doom
1989
as German narrator (voice)

Copacabana
2008
as Herbert Schubert

The Marquise of O
1976
as Der Graf

Winter Journey
2019
as George Goldsmith
Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
1968
as Ulrich Braeker

Children of Nature
1991
as Engill

La provinciale
1981
as Rémy Muller

The End Is My Beginning
2010
as Tiziano Terzani

The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self

The Absence
1993
as Player

The Inventor
1980
as Jakob Nüssli
Die Bakchen
1974
as Pentheus

Closed Circuit
1983
as Faber
Eine große Familie
1970
as Heinz Hallasch

Of Women and Horses
2012
as Franz Mann

A Jew Must Die
2016
as Arthur Bloch

Colors in the Dark
2011
as Fred
Chikita
1962
as Jazzfan

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
2001
as Faust

The Wild Duck
1976
as Gregers Werle

Deadly Silence
1997
as Hans Plache

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1997
as Narrator (German voice)

The End of an Eternity
2000
as Self
Im Dickicht der Städte
1968
as George Garga

The Soft Course
1967
as Bernhard Krahl
WhoAfraidWolf
2000

Polenta
1980

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
2001
as Faust

Night on Fire
1992
as Peter Keller

Taxiphone
2010
as Stranger
Die Mutter
1971

War and Peace
1982

Private Resistance
1985
as Gustav

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

The Day of the Cat
2010
as Kater

Gegen Ende der Nacht
1998
as Fehleisen

Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
2005
as Peter (archive footage)
Frühlings Erwachen
1966
as Moritz Stiefel
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982
as Self
Die Unberatenen
1966
Der Spaßvogel
1964
as Johnny
You Can't Go Home Again
1999
as Narrator (voice)

5% de risque
1980
as David
Ein starker Abgang
2008
as Heinz Kilian

Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
2015
as Voice of Segantini

A Roof Over Your Head
1962
as Fred Weber

Diario senza date
1995

Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
1960
as Kammerdiener
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
1973
as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
About Bruno Ganz
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. With 153 credits spanning from 1948 to 2025, Bruno Ganz has appeared in 132 films and 21 TV shows.
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Most Popular Bruno Ganz Movies
- Heidi (2015) — as Alpöhi
- Downfall (2004) — as Adolf Hitler
- The Reader (2008) — as Professor Rohl
- Unknown (2011) — as Ernst Jürgen
- The House That Jack Built (2018) — as Verge
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