Bruno Ganz
Acting • Born 1941-03-22 – Died 2019-02-16
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.
Filmography
149 credits
Wings of Desire
Movie • 1987
Damiel
Bread and Tulips
Movie • 2000
Fernando Girasoli
Downfall
Movie • 2004
Adolf Hitler
Diario senza date
Movie • 1995
Faraway, So Close!
Movie • 1993
Damiel
The American Friend
Movie • 1977
Jonathan Zimmermann
Luther
Movie • 2003
Johann von Staupitz
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Movie • 1979
Jonathan Harker
Youth Without Youth
Movie • 2007
Professor Stanciulescu
The Reader
Movie • 2008
Professor Rohl
Eternity and a Day
Movie • 1998
Alexandros
Children of Nature
Movie • 1991
Engill
The End of an Eternity
Movie • 2000
Self
Julia's Disappearance
Movie • 2009
John
In the White City
Movie • 1983
Paul
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Movie • 1982
Self
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
Movie • 2005
Self
Knife in the Head
Movie • 1978
Hoffmann
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie • 2004
Delp
The Last Days of Chez Nous
Movie • 1992
J.P.
The Ignoramus and the Madman
Movie • 1972
Vitus
Movie • 2006
Grandfather
The Boys from Brazil
Movie • 1978
Professor Bruckner
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
Movie • 1997
Narrator (German voice)
Circle of Deceit
Movie • 1981
Georg Laschen
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Lost and Found
Movie • 1980
Werner
Unknown
Movie • 2011
Ernst Jürgen
The Marquise of O
Movie • 1976
Der Graf
Return to the Beloved
Movie • 1979
Dr. Stephan Kern
The Day of the Cat
Movie • 2010
Kater
Lumière & Company
Movie • 1995
Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
The Architecture of Doom
Movie • 1989
German narrator (voice)
Lady of the Camelias
Movie • 1981
Count Perregaux
The Dust of Time
Movie • 2008
Jacob
Coda: Thirty Years Later
Movie • 2007
Self
The End Is My Beginning
Movie • 2010
Tiziano Terzani
Colors in the Dark
Movie • 2011
Fred
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
Movie • 2005
Peter (archive footage)
Strapless
Movie • 1989
Raymond Forbes
Especially on Sunday
Movie • 1991
Vittorio
The Counselor
Movie • 2013
Diamond Dealer
Saint-Ex
Movie • 1996
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Of Women and Horses
Movie • 2012
Franz Mann
The Power of the Past
Movie • 2002
Bogliasco
Black and White Like Day and Night
Movie • 1978
Thomas Rosemund
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
Movie • 2006
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
Night Train to Lisbon
Movie • 2013
Older Jorge O'Kelly
Lumière
Movie • 1976
Heinrich Grun
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Movie • 2013
The Governor
Prague
Movie • 1992
Josef
Epsteins Nacht
Movie • 2002
Adam Rose
In Order of Disappearance
Movie • 2014
Papa
Hands Up!
Movie • 1985
Self (1981 footage)
Ein starker Abgang
Movie • 2008
Heinz Kilian
Polenta
Movie • 1980
Taxiphone
Movie • 2010
Stranger
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Movie • 2008
Horst Herold
The Inventor
Movie • 1980
Jakob Nüssli
The Left-Handed Woman
Movie • 1978
Bruno
The Wild Duck
Movie • 1976
Gregers Werle
Private Resistance
Movie • 1985
Gustav
Success
Movie • 1991
Jacques Tüverlin
Der Spaßvogel
Movie • 1964
Johnny
Die Unberatenen
Movie • 1966
Remember
Movie • 2015
Rudy Kurlander #1
Summer Guests
Movie • 1976
Jakov Shalimov
Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
Movie • 1960
Kammerdiener
Closed Circuit
Movie • 1983
Faber
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Movie • 1988
Ezra Pound
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
Movie • 2001
Faust
5% de risque
Movie • 1980
David
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Movie • 2022
Lui-même
Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
Movie • 1968
Ulrich Braeker
Frühlings Erwachen
Movie • 1966
Moritz Stiefel
War and Peace
Movie • 1982
Killer aus Florida
Movie • 1983
Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
Movie • 2015
Voice of Segantini
Im Dickicht der Städte
Movie • 1968
George Garga
A Roof Over Your Head
Movie • 1962
Fred Weber
Heidi
Movie • 2015
Alpöhi
Die Bakchen
Movie • 1974
Pentheus
Die Mutter
Movie • 1971
Night on Fire
Movie • 1992
Peter Keller
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Movie • 1979
Self
Copacabana
Movie • 2008
Herbert Schubert
Logik des Gefühls
Movie • 1982
The Soft Course
Movie • 1967
Bernhard Krahl
Amnesia
Movie • 2015
Bruno
Love of a Woman
Movie • 1988
Franco Bassani
Chikita
Movie • 1962
Jazzfan
The Party
Movie • 2017
Godfried
A Hidden Life
Movie • 2019
Richter
In Times of Fading Light
Movie • 2017
Wilhelm Powileit
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Movie • 2003
Self
The House That Jack Built
Movie • 2018
Verge
WhoAfraidWolf
Movie • 2000
El río de oro
Movie • 1986
Peter
Deadly Silence
Movie • 1997
Hans Plache
Il Grande Fausto
Movie • 1995
Biagio Cavanna
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
Movie • 1973
Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
The Ode to Joy
Movie • 2006
Kurt Heinrich
Eine große Familie
Movie • 1970
Heinz Hallasch
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
Movie • 1986
Narrator
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
Movie • 2001
Faust
Fortuna
Movie • 2018
Brother Jean
Gegen Ende der Nacht
Movie • 1998
Fehleisen
The Witness
Movie • 2019
Nikola Radin
The Tobacconist
Movie • 2018
Sigmund Freud
A Jew Must Die
Movie • 2016
Arthur Bloch
Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
Movie • 2004
Self
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
Movie • 2019
Narrator German (voice)
The Absence
Movie • 1993
Player
Winter Journey
Movie • 2019
George Goldsmith
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
Movie • 2008
Self
Bankomatt
Movie • 1989
Bruno
Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Alias Kurban Saïd
Movie • 2005
Narrator
You Can't Go Home Again
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
La provinciale
Movie • 1981
Rémy Muller
Dancing Arabs
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
Torquato Tasso
Movie • 1969
Torquato Tasso
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
Movie • 1982
Films to Die For
Movie • 2025
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Der Kleine Prinz
Movie • 2011
Geograph
To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
Movie • 2017
Le Quatuor des possibles
Movie • 1992
Narrateur
Anwalt Abel
TV • 1988
Crusius
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Bombadil
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
TV • 1991
Tassilo
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
Grimme Award
TV • 1964
Self
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
TV • 1981
Count Perregaux
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
Spiel für dein Land
TV • 2015
Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
TV • 2003
Self
Boulevard Bio
TV • 1991
Self
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
TV • 2002
Self
Kulturplatz
TV • 2004
Self
Zur Person
TV • 1963
Self
Our Best
TV • 2003
Self
Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy
TV • 1986
Heinrich Beck
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
TV • 2020
Self