Bruno Ganz
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 22 March 1941 · Zürich, Switzerland
- Died
- 16 February 2019
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
Acting 135
- 2025Films to Die For as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary as Self
- 2020Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl as Narrator (voice)
- 2020Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Winter Journey as George Goldsmith
- 2019The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution as Narrator German (voice)
- 2019A Hidden Life as Richter
- 2019The Witness as Nikola Radin
- 2018The Tobacconist as Sigmund Freud
- 2018The House That Jack Built as Verge
- 2018Fortuna as Brother Jean
- 2018Black Baby as Damiel (archive footage)
- 2017To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
- 2017The Party as Godfried
- 2017In Times of Fading Light as Wilhelm Powileit
- 2016A Jew Must Die as Arthur Bloch
- 2015Heidi as Alpöhi
- 2015Remember as Rudy Kurlander #1
- 2015Amnesia as Bruno
- 2015Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts as Voice of Segantini
- 2015Beethoven - Egmont, Mozart - Symphony 35 - Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- 2014Dancing Arabs as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
- 2014In Order of Disappearance as Papa
- 2013The Counselor as Diamond Dealer
- 2013Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Governor
- 2013Night Train to Lisbon as Older Jorge O'Kelly
- 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2012Of Women and Horses as Franz Mann
- 2011Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes as Narrator (voice)
- 2011Der Kleine Prinz as Geograph
- 2011Unknown as Ernst Jürgen
- 2011Colors in the Dark as Fred
- 2010The End Is My Beginning as Tiziano Terzani
- 2010Taxiphone as Stranger
- 2010The Day of the Cat as Kater
- 2009Julia's Disappearance as John
- 2008The Reader as Professor Rohl
- 2008The Dust of Time as Jacob
- 2008The Baader Meinhof Complex as Horst Herold
- 2008Ein starker Abgang as Heinz Kilian
- 2008Copacabana as Herbert Schubert
- 2008One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years as Self
- 2007Coda: Thirty Years Later as Self
- 2007Youth Without Youth as Professor Stanciulescu
- 2006The Ode to Joy as Kurt Heinrich
- 2006Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
- 2006Vitus as Grandfather
- 2005Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones as Peter (archive footage)
- 2005Hitler's Final Days: The Movie 'Downfall' as Self
- 2005Alias Kurban Saïd as Narrator
- 2004Downfall as Adolf Hitler
- 2004The Manchurian Candidate as Delp
- 2004Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler as Self
- 2003Luther as Johann von Staupitz
- 2003Bruno Ganz - Behind Me as Self
- 2003Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence as Self
- 2003Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us as Self
- 2002Epsteins Nacht as Adam Rose
- 2002The Power of the Past as Bogliasco
- 2001Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II as Faust
- 2001Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I as Faust
- 2000The End of an Eternity as Self
- 2000Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor as Self (archive footage)
- 2000Bread and Tulips as Fernando Girasoli
- 2000WhoAfraidWolf
- 2000Antipasti Umbro
- 1999You Can't Go Home Again as Narrator (voice)
- 1998Eternity and a Day as Alexandros
- 1998Gegen Ende der Nacht as Fehleisen
- 1997St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral as Narrator (German voice)
- 1997Deadly Silence as Hans Plache
- 1996Saint-Ex as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1995Lumière & Company as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
- 1995Il Grande Fausto as Biagio Cavanna
- 1995Diario senza date
- 1993Faraway, So Close! as Damiel
- 1993The Absence as Player
- 1992Night on Fire as Peter Keller
- 1992The Last Days of Chez Nous as J.P.
- 1992Prague as Josef
- 1992Le Quatuor des possibles as Narrateur
- 1991Especially on Sunday as Vittorio
- 1991Children of Nature as Engill
- 1991Success as Jacques Tüverlin
- 1989The Architecture of Doom as German narrator (voice)
- 1989Strapless as Raymond Forbes
- 1989Bankomatt as Bruno
- 1988Love of a Woman as Franco Bassani
- 1988The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway as Ezra Pound
- 1987Wings of Desire as Damiel
- 1986Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« as Narrator
- 1986El río de oro as Peter
- 1985Private Resistance as Gustav
- 1985Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)
- 1983Killer aus Florida
- 1983Closed Circuit as Faber
- 1983In the White City as Paul
- 1982Logik des Gefühls
- 1982War and Peace
- 1982Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois as Self
- 1982Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
- 1981Circle of Deceit as Georg Laschen
- 1981Lady of the Camelias as Count Perregaux
- 1981La provinciale as Rémy Muller
- 1980The Inventor as Jakob Nüssli
- 1980Polenta
- 19805% de risque as David
- 1980Lost and Found as Werner
- 1979The Making of 'Nosferatu' as Self
- 1979Return to the Beloved as Dr. Stephan Kern
- 1979Nosferatu the Vampyre as Jonathan Harker
- 1978Knife in the Head as Hoffmann
- 1978Black and White Like Day and Night as Thomas Rosemund
- 1978The Boys from Brazil as Professor Bruckner
- 1978The Left-Handed Woman as Bruno
- 1977The American Friend as Jonathan Zimmermann
- 1976The Wild Duck as Gregers Werle
- 1976The Marquise of O as Der Graf
- 1976Lumière as Heinrich Grun
- 1976Summer Guests as Jakov Shalimov
- 1974Die Bakchen as Pentheus
- 1973Prinz Friedrich von Homburg as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
- 1972The Ignoramus and the Madman
- 1971Die Mutter
- 1970Eine große Familie as Heinz Hallasch
- 1969Torquato Tasso as Torquato Tasso
- 1968Im Dickicht der Städte as George Garga
- 1968Die Schlacht bei Lobositz as Ulrich Braeker
- 1967The Soft Course as Bernhard Krahl
- 1966Die Unberatenen
- 1966Frühlings Erwachen as Moritz Stiefel
- 1964Der Spaßvogel as Johnny
- 1962Chikita as Jazzfan
- 1962A Roof Over Your Head as Fred Weber
- 1960Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone as Kammerdiener
Directing 1
- 1982Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois · director