# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruno-ganz
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:51:03.125Z

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name: "Bruno Ganz"
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description: "He played an angel drifting over divided Berlin, then Adolf Hitler in his final bunker days—a performance so precise it became the internet's most-remixed meme. For sixty years Bruno Ganz moved between art-house collaborations and Hollywood without ever choosing a lane."
tagline: "Swiss actor (1941–2019)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ganz spent nearly six decades crossing between German stage, television, and film, working with Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, and Theo Angelopoulos. He played Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend in 1977, Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre in 1979, and Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire in 1987. In 2000 he took on Dr. Heinrich Faust in Peter Stein's staging of both parts of Goethe's Faust. Then came Downfall in 2004: his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the dictator's last days earned the film an Academy Award nomination and brought him renewed international attention. English-language roles followed—The Boys from Brazil, The Reader, The Manchurian Candidate, Unknown, The Counselor, Remember—but he remained a figure who never fully belonged to any single cinema. He died on 16 February 2019.