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Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz (22 March 1941 – 16 February 2019) was a highly regarded Swiss actor. His notable career spanned almost six decades, and saw him collaborate with esteemed directors like Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, Theo Angelopoulos and Wim Wenders. He earned widespread recognition for roles such as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire (1987). Ganz received renewed international acclaim for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the Oscar-nominated film Downfall (2004), which critics acclaimed as one of the most convincing screen depictions of Hitler. He performed in several English-language films including The Boys from Brazil (1978), Strapless (1989), The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).
Born in Zürich to a Swiss-German factory worker father and a northern Italian mother, he decided to pursue an acting career as a young adult. Ganz made his theatrical debut in 1961, devoting himself mainly to the stage throughout the next two decades. His passion for the stage never diminished and through his career, he cultivated a reputation as a formidable stage actor. During his career in theater and cinema, he received several awards, including the Iffland-Ring, considered the highest honor in German speaking theatre. From 1996 till his demise in 2019, Ganz held the Iffland-Ring, passing it onto the next most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre.
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Given Name: Bruno Ganz
Born: Zürich, Switzerland
Citizenship: Switzerland
Birthday: March 22, 1941
Occupations: Actor
Years Active: 1960-2019
Children: 1
Spouses: Sabine Ganz
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Movies Featuring Bruno Ganz
The American Friend
Wings of Desire
A Hidden Life
The House That Jack Built
Eternity and a Day
In Order of Disappearance
Youth Without Youth
Amnesia
The Party
Bread and Tulips
Vitus
The Reader
Downfall
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Luther
Faraway, So Close!
The Tobacconist
Of Women and Horses
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
The Day of the Cat
Colors in the Dark
Dancing Arabs
The End Is My Beginning
Heidi
A Jew Must Die
In Times of Fading Light
Fortuna
The Tobacconist
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
Winter Journey
Klaus Kinski: I’m not an actor
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders’ Early Years
Coda: Thirty Years Later
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Especially on Sunday
The Inventor
La provinciale
Hands Up!
Circle of Deceit
Krieg und Frieden
Children of Nature
Lost and Found
Lady of the Camelias
In the White City
System Without Shadow
Private Resistance
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
The Architecture of Doom
Strapless
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Strapless
The Absence
Der sanfte Lauf
Prague
Knife in the Head
The Making of ‘Nosferatu’
Return to the Beloved
The Left-Handed Woman
Saint-Ex
The Dust of Time
Lumière & Company
Lumière
Black and White Like Day and Night
Julia’s Disappearance
Summer Guests
Career Timeline
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2019
A Hidden Life
Judge Lueben
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
Narrator German (voice)
Winter Journey
George Goldsmith
2018
The House That Jack Built
Verge
The Party
Gottfried
Fortuna
Brother Jean
The Tobacconist
Sigmund Freud
2007
Youth Without Youth
Vitus
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders’ Early Years
Self
Coda: Thirty Years Later
Self
1989
The Architecture of Doom
German narrator (voice)
Strapless
Raymond Forbes
Strapless
Raymond Forbes
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