Bruno Ganz
Swiss actor (1941-2019) · Switzerland · Actors · Died at 77
Bruno Ganz is read about 1,605 times a day, in 59 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
A Hidden LifeFilm, 2019Richter2017
In Times of Fading LightFilm, Wilhelm Powileit2015Carl Zuckmayer MedalAward2014
Dancing ArabsFilm2012
Final Cut: Ladies and GentlemenFilm, (archive footage)2010European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward
The End Is My BeginningFilm, 2010Tiziano Terzani2007Knight of the Legion of HonourAward
Youth Without YouthFilm, 2007Professor Stanciulescu2006Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAward2005Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtAward2004Bambi AwardAward
KulturplatzSeries, 2004
DownfallFilm, 2004Adolf Hitler2002
Das Jahrhundert des TheatersSeries2001Cross of Merit First Class of the Lower Saxony Order of MeritAwardTheaterpreis BerlinAward2000
Bread and TulipsFilm, Fernando Girasoli1997
Leute heuteSeries1996Iffland-RingAward1995
Lumière & CompanyFilm, Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")1991Swiss Grand Prix for performing arts / Hans Reinhart RingAward
Boulevard BioSeries, 1991
Children of NatureFilm, 1991Engill1987
Wings of DesireFilm, Damiel1985
Screen TwoSeries, Josef1981
La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle CamelieSeries, Count Perregaux
Circle of DeceitFilm, 1981Georg Laschen1978
Knife in the HeadFilm, Hoffmann1976
The Marquise of OFilm, Der Graf1970
Scene of the CrimeSeries, Bombadil1963
Zur PersonSeries1948
BambiSeries1941Born22 March 1941Also in Deutsch
Photos 3
Filmography 40
ALA Hidden Life
TBThe House That Jack Built
TTThe Tobacconist
TPThe PartyILIn Times of Fading Light
HEHeidi
RERemember
AMAmnesia
IDIn Order of DisappearanceDADancing Arabs
TCThe Counselor
NLNight Train to Lisbon
AKAge of Uprising: The Legend of Michael KohlhaasFGFinal Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
OHOf Women and Horses
UNUnknownTBThe End Is My Beginning
TRThe Reader
TCThe Baader Meinhof Complex
TTThe Dust of TimeYYYouth Without Youth
VIVitusDODownfall
TCThe Manchurian Candidate
LULutherBTBread and Tulips
EDEternity and a DayLCLumière & Company
FCFaraway, So Close!CNChildren of Nature
TDThe Architecture of DoomWDWings of Desire
ICIn the White City
LCLady of the CameliasCDCircle of Deceit
NVNosferatu the Vampyre
TBThe Boys from BrazilKHKnife in the Head
TFThe American FriendTOThe Marquise of O156 credits on file
Television 22
KUKulturplatzDTDas Jahrhundert des TheatersLHLeute heute
IFIl Grande FaustoBBBoulevard Bio
FTFathers and Sons: A German TragedySTScreen TwoLCLa Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle CamelieSCScene of the CrimeZPZur PersonBABambiAwards
About this person
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.
In common with Bruno
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