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
- Winter Journey as George Goldsmith
- The Witness as Nikola Radin
- The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution as Narrator German (voice)
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
- Der Kleine Prinz as Geograph
- Colors in the Dark as Fred
- Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes as Narrator (voice)
2010
- The Day of the Cat as Kater
- Taxiphone as Stranger
- The End Is My Beginning as Tiziano Terzani
2009
- Julia's Disappearance as John
2008
- The Reader as Professor Rohl
- The Baader Meinhof Complex as Horst Herold
- Copacabana as Herbert Schubert
- The Dust of Time as Jacob
- One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years as Self
- Ein starker Abgang as Heinz Kilian
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
- Alias Kurban Saïd as Narrator
- Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones as Peter (archive footage)
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
- Our Best as Self
- Luther as Johann von Staupitz
- Behind Me as Self
- Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us as Self
- Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence as Self
2002
- Epsteins Nacht as Adam Rose
- Das Jahrhundert des Theaters as Self
- 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
- Bread and Tulips as Fernando Girasoli
- WhoAfraidWolf
- Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor as Self (archive footage)
- The End of an Eternity as Self
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
- Deadly Silence as Hans Plache
- St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral as Narrator (German voice)
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.
- Le Quatuor des possibles as Narrateur
- Night on Fire as Peter Keller
- Prague as Josef
1991
- Boulevard Bio as Self
- Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich as Tassilo
- Especially on Sunday as Vittorio
- Children of Nature as Engill
- Success as Jacques Tüverlin
1989
- The Architecture of Doom as German narrator (voice)
- Bankomatt as Bruno
- Strapless as Raymond Forbes
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
- Screen Two as Josef
- Private Resistance as Gustav
- Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
1983
- In the White City as Paul
- Killer aus Florida
- Closed Circuit as Faber
1982
1981
- Circle of Deceit as Georg Laschen
- La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie as Count Perregaux
- Lady of the Camelias as Count Perregaux
- La provinciale as Rémy Muller
1980
- Polenta
- The Inventor as Jakob Nüssli
- 5% de risque as David
- Lost and Found as Werner
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
- The Left-Handed Woman as Bruno
- Black and White Like Day and Night as Thomas Rosemund
1977
- The American Friend as Jonathan Zimmermann
1976
- The Marquise of O as Der Graf
- The Wild Duck as Gregers Werle
- Summer Guests as Jakov Shalimov
- Lumière as Heinrich Grun
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
- Im Dickicht der Städte as George Garga
- Die Schlacht bei Lobositz as Ulrich Braeker
1967
- The Soft Course as Bernhard Krahl
1966
- Die Unberatenen
- Frühlings Erwachen as Moritz Stiefel
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
- Der Spaßvogel as Johnny
1963
- Zur Person as Self
1962
- Chikita as Jazzfan
- A Roof Over Your Head as Fred Weber
1960
- Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone as Kammerdiener
1951
- German Film Award as Self
1948
- Bambi as Self