Actor
· Acting
Bruno Ganz
Born 1941-03-22
Died 2019-02-16
📍 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 117
Films to Die For
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
as Self
2022
Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Winter Journey
as George Goldsmith
2019
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
as Narrator German (voice)
2019
A Hidden Life
as Richter
2019
The Witness
as Nikola Radin
2019
The Tobacconist
as Sigmund Freud
2018
The House That Jack Built
as Verge
2018
Fortuna
as Brother Jean
2018
To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
2017
The Party
as Godfried
2017
In Times of Fading Light
as Wilhelm Powileit
2017
A Jew Must Die
as Arthur Bloch
2016
Heidi
as Alpöhi
2015
Remember
as Rudy Kurlander #1
2015
Amnesia
as Bruno
2015
Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
as Voice of Segantini
2015
Dancing Arabs
as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
2014
In Order of Disappearance
as Papa
2014
The Counselor
as Diamond Dealer
2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Governor
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
as Older Jorge O'Kelly
2013
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
Of Women and Horses
as Franz Mann
2012
Der Kleine Prinz
as Geograph
2011
Unknown
as Ernst Jürgen
2011
Colors in the Dark
as Fred
2011
The End Is My Beginning
as Tiziano Terzani
2010
Taxiphone
as Stranger
2010
The Day of the Cat
as Kater
2010
Julia's Disappearance
as John
2009
The Reader
as Professor Rohl
2008
The Dust of Time
as Jacob
2008
The Baader Meinhof Complex
as Horst Herold
2008
Copacabana
as Herbert Schubert
2008
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
as Self
2008
Youth Without Youth
as Professor Stanciulescu
2007
The Ode to Joy
as Kurt Heinrich
2006
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
2006
Vitus
as Grandfather
2006
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
as Peter (archive footage)
2005
Alias Kurban Saïd
as Narrator
2005
Downfall
as Adolf Hitler
2004
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
as Delp
2004
Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
as Self
2004
Luther
as Johann von Staupitz
2003
Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence
as Self
2003
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
as Self
2003
Epsteins Nacht
as Adam Rose
2002
The Power of the Past
as Bogliasco
2002
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
as Self
2002
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
as Faust
2001
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
as Faust
2001
The End of an Eternity
as Self
2000
Bread and Tulips
as Fernando Girasoli
2000
Eternity and a Day
as Alexandros
1998
Gegen Ende der Nacht
as Fehleisen
1998
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
as Narrator (German voice)
1997
Leute heute
as Self
1997
Deadly Silence
as Hans Plache
1997
Saint-Ex
as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1996
Lumière & Company
as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
1995
Il Grande Fausto
as Biagio Cavanna
1995
Diario senza date
1995
Faraway, So Close!
as Damiel
1993
The Absence
as Player
1993
Night on Fire
as Peter Keller
1992
The Last Days of Chez Nous
as J.P.
1992
Prague
as Josef
1992
Le Quatuor des possibles
as Narrateur
1992
Especially on Sunday
as Vittorio
1991
Boulevard Bio
as Self
1991
Children of Nature
as Engill
1991
The Architecture of Doom
as German narrator (voice)
1989
Strapless
as Raymond Forbes
1989
Bankomatt
as Bruno
1989
Love of a Woman
as Franco Bassani
1988
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
as Ezra Pound
1988
Wings of Desire
as Damiel
1987
Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy
as Heinrich Beck
1986
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
as Narrator
1986
El río de oro
as Peter
1986
Private Resistance
as Gustav
1985
Hands Up!
as Self (1981 footage)
1985
Closed Circuit
as Faber
1983
In the White City
as Paul
1983
War and Peace
1982
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
1982
Circle of Deceit
as Georg Laschen
1981
Lady of the Camelias
as Count Perregaux
1981
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie
as Count Perregaux
1981
La provinciale
as Rémy Muller
1981
The Inventor
as Jakob Nüssli
1980
Polenta
1980
5% de risque
as David
1980
Lost and Found
as Werner
1980
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self
1979
Return to the Beloved
as Dr. Stephan Kern
1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre
as Jonathan Harker
1979
Knife in the Head
as Hoffmann
1978
Black and White Like Day and Night
as Thomas Rosemund
1978
The Boys from Brazil
as Professor Bruckner
1978
The Left-Handed Woman
as Bruno
1978
The American Friend
as Jonathan Zimmermann
1977
The Wild Duck
as Gregers Werle
1976
The Marquise of O
as Der Graf
1976
Lumière
as Heinrich Grun
1976
Summer Guests
as Jakov Shalimov
1976
Scene of the Crime
as Bombadil
1970
The Soft Course
as Bernhard Krahl
1967
Zur Person
as Self
1963
A Roof Over Your Head
as Fred Weber
1962
Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
as Kammerdiener
1960
Bambi
as Self
1948