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.

Known For

Birth Location Zürich, Switzerland
Born 1941-03-22
Died 2019-02-16

Movies

Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl as Narrator (voice)
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
2020
A Hidden Life as Richter
2019
Winter Journey as George Goldsmith
2019
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution as Narrator German (voice)
2019
The Witness as Nikola Radin
2019
The Tobacconist as Sigmund Freud
2018
Fortuna as Brother Jean
2018
The Party as Godfried
2017
In Times of Fading Light as Wilhelm Powileit
2017
A Jew Must Die as Arthur Bloch
2016
Heidi as Alpöhi, Heidi's grandfather
2015
Remember as Rudy Kurlander #1
2015
Amnesia as Bruno
2015
2015
The Counselor as Diamond Dealer
2013
Night Train to Lisbon as Older Jorge O'Kelly
2013
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2012
Of Women and Horses as Franz Mann
2012
Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes as Narrator (voice)
2011
Unknown as Ernst Jürgen
2011
2011
The End Is My Beginning as Tiziano Terzani
2010
Taxiphone as Stranger
2010
2010
2009
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
Youth Without Youth as Professor Stanciulescu
2007
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
2006
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones as Peter (archive footage)
2005
Alias Kurban Saïd as Narrator
2005
Downfall as Adolf Hitler
2004
Luther as Johann von Staupitz
2003
Epsteins Nacht as Adam Rose
2002
The Power of the Past as Bogliasco
2002
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor as Self (archive footage)
2000
Bread and Tulips as Fernando Girasoli
2000
You Can't Go Home Again as Narrator (voice)
1999
1999
Eternity and a Day as Alexandros
1998
Gegen Ende der Nacht as Fehleisen
1998
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral as Narrator (German voice)
1997
Deadly Silence as Hans Plache
1997
Saint-Ex as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1996
1995
Il Grande Fausto as Biagio Cavanna
1995
Night on Fire as Peter Keller
1993
Faraway, So Close! as Damiel
1993
The Absence as Player
1993
Prague as Josef
1992
Especially on Sunday as Vittorio
1991
Children of Nature as Engill
1991
Success as Jacques Tüverlin
1991
The Architecture of Doom as German narrator (voice)
1989
Strapless as Raymond Forbes
1989
Bankomatt as Bruno
1989
Love of a Woman as Franco Bassani
1988
Wings of Desire as Damiel
1987
Fathers and Sons as Heinrich Beck
1986
El río de oro as Peter
1986
Private Resistance as Gustav
1985
Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)
1985
1983
1983
Circle of Deceit as Georg Laschen
1981
The Inventor as Jakob Nüssli
1981
Lady of the Camelias as Count Perregaux
1981
La provinciale as Rémy Muller
1981
1980
5% de risque as David
1980
Lost and Found as Werner
1980
Return to the Beloved as Dr. Stephan Kern
1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre as Jonathan Harker
1979
1978
Knife in the Head as Hoffmann
1978
The Boys from Brazil as Professor Bruckner
1978
1977
The American Friend as Jonathan Zimmermann
1977
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
1976
Die Bakchen as Pentheus
1974
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
1973
1971
Eine große Familie as Heinz Hallasch
1970
Im Dickicht der Städte as George Garga
1968
Die Schlacht bei Lobositz as Ulrich Braeker
1968
Der sanfte Lauf as Bernhard Krahl
1967
Frühlings Erwachen as Moritz Stiefel
1966
Der Spaßvogel as Johnny
1964
Chikita as Jazzfan
1962
A Roof Over Your Head as Fred Weber
1962
1960