Michael Kranz
Acting • Born 1983-04-17
Biography
Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism. Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018. His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.
Filmography
63 credits
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Movie • 2023
Simon Steckenbiller
12 Tage Sommer
Movie • 2021
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Falter
Movie • 2019
Dave
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Movie • 2017
Was Tun
Movie • 2022
Another Kind of Light
Movie • 2015
Raw Materials
Movie • 2024
Massenbach
Hannes
Movie • 2021
Florian
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Movie • 2009
Niklas
Morin
Movie • 2023
Konrad Dramm
The Master Butcher
Movie • 2019
Fidelis’ Bruder
War Horse
Movie • 2011
Junior German Officer
Sams im Glück
Movie • 2012
Packer 1
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Movie • 2013
Michel
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Movie • 2013
Bossler
Inglourious Basterds
Movie • 2009
Herrman #3
Hirngespinster
Movie • 2014
Guido
Räuber Kneißl
Movie • 2008
Gendarm Hildebrand
13 Minutes
Movie • 2015
Franz Xaver Lechner
The White Ribbon
Movie • 2009
The Tutor
Sommer der Gaukler
Movie • 2011
Alfons
Die Hummel
Movie • 2010
Flo
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Movie • 2013
Mr. Rupprecht
Die Büffel sind los!
Movie • 2016
Landrat Häberle
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Movie • 2016
Simon
The Fifth Estate
Movie • 2013
Otto
The Last 30 Years
Movie • 2010
Robert Ostermeier
Siblings
Movie • 2016
Niels
Der Andi ist wieder da
Movie • 2015
Michael Schäfer
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Movie • 2009
Polizist Kranz
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Movie • 2015
Zugschaffner
Heidi
Movie • 2015
Mr. Kandidat
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie • 2016
Jan Hartog
A Family of Three
Movie • 2012
King Laurin
Movie • 2016
Bauer Hans
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Movie • 2012
Moritz
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
Movie • 2012
German Sergeant
Onkel Wanja
Movie • 2019
Telegin
Rommel
Movie • 2012
Karl Daniel
Nanga Parbat
Movie • 2010
Hans Saler
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Movie • 2019
Norbert Holler
I love Everything I Hate About You
Movie • 2018
Kai
The Goldfish
Movie • 2019
Fräulein Else
Movie • 2014
Paul
The Young Chief Winnetou
Movie • 2022
Freddy
Schildkröten Panzer
Movie • 2017
Narrator (voice)
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Movie • 2025
Liebfried Cantor
Finsterworld
Movie • 2013
Time We Lost
Movie • 2025
Verkäufer
FrauMutterTier
Movie • 2019
Hannes
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Movie • 2026
Patrick Wams
Local Heroes
Movie • 2013
Lazlo
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Karsten
Kommissarin Lucas
TV • 2003
Kai Benner
Bettys Diagnose
TV • 2015
Christoph Wendrup
Hammer & Sichl
TV • 2013
Polizist
München 7
TV • 2004
Jörg
Hindafing
TV • 2017
Pfarrer Kraus
Die Bergretter
TV • 2009
Steffen Haflinger
Murder by the Lake
TV • 2014
Peter Wolfahrt
The Signal
TV • 2024
Gregor
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
TV • 2020
Alfons Urban
Die Augenzeugen
TV • 2024
Sascha Wolf