Portrait of Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

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.

Born: March 22, 1941

Place of Birth: Zürich, Switzerland

Filmography

2025
Films to Die For

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

2020
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Winter Journey

as George Goldsmith

2019
2019
A Hidden Life

as Richter

2019
The Witness

as Nikola Radin

2018
The Tobacconist

as Sigmund Freud

2018
Fortuna

as Brother Jean

2017
The Party

as Godfried

2017
In Times of Fading Light

as Wilhelm Powileit

2016
A Jew Must Die

as Arthur Bloch

2015
Heidi

as Alpöhi

2015
Remember

as Rudy Kurlander #1

2015
Amnesia

as Bruno

2015
2014
Dancing Arabs

as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)

2013
The Counselor

as Diamond Dealer

2013
Night Train to Lisbon

as Older Jorge O'Kelly

2012
2012
Of Women and Horses

as Franz Mann

2011
Der Kleine Prinz

as Geograph

2011
Unknown

as Ernst Jürgen

2010
The End Is My Beginning

as Tiziano Terzani

2010
Taxiphone

as Stranger

2010
2008
The Reader

as Professor Rohl

2008
2008
2008
Copacabana

as Herbert Schubert

2007
Youth Without Youth

as Professor Stanciulescu

2006
The Ode to Joy

as Kurt Heinrich

2006
2006
Vitus

as Grandfather

2005
2005
2004
Downfall

as Adolf Hitler

2004
2003
Luther

as Johann von Staupitz

2002
Epsteins Nacht

as Adam Rose

2002
2000
Bread and Tulips

as Fernando Girasoli

1998
Eternity and a Day

as Alexandros

1998
1997
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

as Narrator (German voice)

1997
Deadly Silence

as Hans Plache

1996
Saint-Ex

as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1995
Lumière & Company

as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

1995
Il Grande Fausto

as Biagio Cavanna

1993
1993
The Absence

as Player

1992
Night on Fire

as Peter Keller

1992
Prague

as Josef

1991
1991
1991
1989
The Architecture of Doom

as German narrator (voice)

1989
Strapless

as Raymond Forbes

1989
Bankomatt

as Bruno

1988
Anwalt Abel

as Crusius

1988
Love of a Woman

as Franco Bassani

1987
1986
1985
1985
Hands Up!

as Self (1981 footage)

1981
Circle of Deceit

as Georg Laschen

1981
Lady of the Camelias

as Count Perregaux

1981
La provinciale

as Rémy Muller

1980
The Inventor

as Jakob Nüssli

1980
5% de risque

as David

1980
1979
Return to the Beloved

as Dr. Stephan Kern

1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre

as Jonathan Harker

1978
1978
The Boys from Brazil

as Professor Bruckner

1977
The American Friend

as Jonathan Zimmermann

1976
The Wild Duck

as Gregers Werle

1976
1976
Lumière

as Heinrich Grun

1976
Summer Guests

as Jakov Shalimov

1970
1967
Der sanfte Lauf

as Bernhard Krahl

1963
Zur Person

as Self

1962
1948
Bambi

as Self