Bruno Ganz

Personal Info

Birthday

March 22, 1941

Day of Death

2019-02-16

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Zürich, Switzerland

Also Known As

برونو گانتس

Bruno Ganz

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

Scene of the Crime

The Reader

Wings of Desire

Unknown

Downfall

Anwalt Abel

The House That Jack Built

The Counselor

Filmography

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