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