Bruno Ganz

Known for: Acting

Born: 1941-03-22 – 2019-02-16 (aged 77)

From: Zürich, Switzerland

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 (155)

MOVIE
Films to Die For
2025
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022
as Self
TV★ 10.0
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
as Self
MOVIE
Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
2020
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.7
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Winter Journey
2019
as George Goldsmith
MOVIE
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
2019
as Narrator German (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.2
A Hidden Life
2019
as Richter
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Witness
2019
as Nikola Radin
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Tobacconist
2018
as Sigmund Freud
MOVIE★ 7.1
The House That Jack Built
2018
as Verge
MOVIE★ 6.8
Fortuna
2018
as Brother Jean
MOVIE
To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
2017
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Party
2017
as Godfried
MOVIE★ 6.6
In Times of Fading Light
2017
as Wilhelm Powileit
MOVIE★ 4.8
A Jew Must Die
2016
as Arthur Bloch
MOVIE★ 7.3
Heidi
2015
as Alpöhi
TV
Spiel für dein Land
2015
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.4
Remember
2015
as Rudy Kurlander #1
MOVIE★ 5.4
Amnesia
2015
as Bruno
MOVIE★ 6.5
Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
2015
as Voice of Segantini
MOVIE
Beethoven - Egmont, Mozart - Symphony 35 - Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
2015
MOVIE★ 6.5
Dancing Arabs
2014
as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.9
In Order of Disappearance
2014
as Papa
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Counselor
2013
as Diamond Dealer
MOVIE★ 5.9
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013
as The Governor
MOVIE★ 6.5
Night Train to Lisbon
2013
as Older Jorge O'Kelly
MOVIE★ 7.6
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.6
Of Women and Horses
2012
as Franz Mann
MOVIE
Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
2011
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
Der Kleine Prinz
2011
as Geograph
MOVIE★ 6.7
Unknown
2011
as Ernst Jürgen
MOVIE★ 5.4
Colors in the Dark
2011
as Fred
MOVIE★ 6.1
The End Is My Beginning
2010
as Tiziano Terzani
MOVIE★ 4.0
Taxiphone
2010
as Stranger
MOVIE★ 4.8
The Day of the Cat
2010
as Kater
MOVIE★ 6.7
Julia's Disappearance
2009
as John
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Reader
2008
as Professor Rohl
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Dust of Time
2008
as Jacob
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
as Horst Herold
MOVIE★ 6.5
Ein starker Abgang
2008
as Heinz Kilian
MOVIE★ 2.0
Copacabana
2008
as Herbert Schubert
MOVIE★ 7.0
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.8
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.1
Youth Without Youth
2007
as Professor Stanciulescu
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Ode to Joy
2006
as Kurt Heinrich
MOVIE★ 5.1
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
2006
as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
MOVIE★ 7.4
Vitus
2006
as Grandfather
MOVIE★ 7.0
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
2005
as Peter (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.0
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Alias Kurban Saïd
2005
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.9
Downfall
2004
as Adolf Hitler
TV★ 6.0
Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Delp
MOVIE★ 6.0
Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
2004
as Self
TV
Our Best
2003
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.5
Luther
2003
as Johann von Staupitz
MOVIE
Behind Me
2003
as Self
MOVIE
Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence
2003
as Self
TV★ 7.3
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.3
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003
as Self
MOVIE★ 9.0
Epsteins Nacht
2002
as Adam Rose
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Power of the Past
2002
as Bogliasco
TV★ 9.0
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.0
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
2001
as Faust
MOVIE★ 10.0
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
2001
as Faust
MOVIE
The End of an Eternity
2000
as Self
MOVIE
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.2
Bread and Tulips
2000
as Fernando Girasoli
MOVIE★ 7.0
WhoAfraidWolf
2000
MOVIE
Antipasti Umbro
2000
MOVIE★ 9.0
You Can't Go Home Again
1999
as Narrator (voice)
TV
Sternstunde Kunst
1998
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.8
Eternity and a Day
1998
as Alexandros
MOVIE★ 5.0
Gegen Ende der Nacht
1998
as Fehleisen
MOVIE
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1997
as Narrator (German voice)
TV★ 5.2
Leute heute
1997
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.0
Deadly Silence
1997
as Hans Plache
MOVIE★ 4.3
Saint-Ex
1996
as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
MOVIE★ 6.3
Lumière & Company
1995
as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
MOVIE★ 6.3
Il Grande Fausto
1995
as Biagio Cavanna
MOVIE★ 10.0
Diario senza date
1995
MOVIE★ 6.9
Faraway, So Close!
1993
as Damiel
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Absence
1993
as Player
MOVIE★ 4.7
Night on Fire
1992
as Peter Keller
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992
as J.P.
MOVIE★ 6.4
Prague
1992
as Josef
MOVIE★ 10.0
Le Quatuor des possibles
1992
as Narrateur
MOVIE★ 6.2
Especially on Sunday
1991
as Vittorio
TV★ 7.0
Boulevard Bio
1991
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.0
Children of Nature
1991
as Engill
MOVIE★ 4.7
Success
1991
as Jacques Tüverlin
TV★ 9.0
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
1991
as Tassilo
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Architecture of Doom
1989
as German narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.4
Strapless
1989
as Raymond Forbes
MOVIE★ 8.0
Bankomatt
1989
as Bruno
TV
Anwalt Abel
1988
as Crusius
MOVIE★ 8.0
Love of a Woman
1988
as Franco Bassani
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
as Ezra Pound
MOVIE★ 7.8
Wings of Desire
1987
as Damiel
TV★ 7.0
Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy
1986
as Heinrich Beck
MOVIE
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
1986
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 4.4
El río de oro
1986
as Peter
MOVIE★ 7.0
Private Resistance
1985
as Gustav
MOVIE★ 5.6
Hands Up!
1985
as Self (1981 footage)
TV★ 7.1
Screen Two
1985
as Josef
TV★ 5.7
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Closed Circuit
1983
as Faber
MOVIE★ 8.0
Killer aus Florida
1983
MOVIE★ 7.0
In the White City
1983
as Paul
MOVIE★ 10.0
Logik des Gefühls
1982
MOVIE★ 4.5
War and Peace
1982
MOVIE★ 4.0
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
1982
MOVIE★ 6.1
Circle of Deceit
1981
as Georg Laschen
MOVIE★ 6.1
Lady of the Camelias
1981
as Count Perregaux
TV★ 4.0
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
1981
as Count Perregaux
MOVIE★ 5.7
La provinciale
1981
as Rémy Muller
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Inventor
1980
as Jakob Nüssli
MOVIE★ 9.0
Polenta
1980
MOVIE★ 6.0
5% de risque
1980
as David
MOVIE★ 5.3
Lost and Found
1980
as Werner
TV
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.3
Return to the Beloved
1979
as Dr. Stephan Kern
MOVIE★ 7.3
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
as Jonathan Harker
MOVIE★ 6.1
Knife in the Head
1978
as Hoffmann
MOVIE★ 6.3
Black and White Like Day and Night
1978
as Thomas Rosemund
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Professor Bruckner
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Left-Handed Woman
1978
as Bruno
MOVIE★ 7.1
The American Friend
1977
as Jonathan Zimmermann
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Wild Duck
1976
as Gregers Werle
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Marquise of O
1976
as Der Graf
MOVIE★ 6.8
Lumière
1976
as Heinrich Grun
MOVIE★ 7.3
Summer Guests
1976
as Jakov Shalimov
MOVIE★ 10.0
Die Bakchen
1974
as Pentheus
MOVIE★ 7.0
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
1973
as Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
MOVIE
The Ignoramus and the Madman
1972
MOVIE★ 10.0
Die Mutter
1971
TV★ 6.2
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Bombadil
MOVIE★ 8.0
Eine große Familie
1970
as Heinz Hallasch
MOVIE★ 7.0
Torquato Tasso
1969
as Torquato Tasso
MOVIE★ 10.0
Im Dickicht der Städte
1968
as George Garga
MOVIE★ 9.0
Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
1968
as Ulrich Braeker
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Soft Course
1967
as Bernhard Krahl
MOVIE★ 10.0
Die Unberatenen
1966
MOVIE★ 9.0
Frühlings Erwachen
1966
as Moritz Stiefel
MOVIE★ 8.0
Der Spaßvogel
1964
as Johnny
TV
Grimme Award
1964
as Self
TV
Zur Person
1963
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Chikita
1962
as Jazzfan
MOVIE★ 7.0
A Roof Over Your Head
1962
as Fred Weber
MOVIE★ 7.0
Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
1960
as Kammerdiener
TV★ 6.0
German Film Award
1951
as Self
TV★ 9.0
Bambi
1948
as Self