Bruno Ganz  

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Bruno Ganz (22 March 1941 – 16 February 2019) was a Swiss actor who had been a prominent figure in German language film and television for over fifty years. He had collaborated several times with filmmakers Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola and Wim Wenders, with the latter first as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977) and again as Damiel the Angel in both Wings of Desire (1987) and Faraway, So Close! (1993).

Ganz was internationally renowned for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004). He has also had roles in several English language films, including The Boys From Brazil (1978) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

Filmography

• Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (The Man in the Black Derby) (1960) as Hotelpage
• Es Dach überem Chopf (1962) as Fred Weber
• Chikita (1964)
• The Smooth Career (1967) as Barnhard Kral
• Template:Ill (Summer Guests) (1976) as Jakov Shalimov
• Lumière (1976) as Heinrich Grün
• Die Marquise von O... (The Marquise of O...) (1976) as Der Graf
• Template:Interlanguage link multi (The Wild Duck) (1976) as Gregers
• Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend) (1977) as Jonathan Zimmermann
• Die linkshändige Frau (The Left-Handed Woman) (1978) as Bruno
• Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte (1978) as Thomas Rosemund
• The Boys from Brazil (1978) as Professor Bruckner
• Messer im Kopf (Knife in the Head) (1978) as Hoffmann
• Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre) (1979) as Jonathan Harker
• Retour à la bien-aimée (Return to the Beloved) (1979) as Dr. Stephan Kern
• Oggetti smarriti (Lost and Found / Lost Objects / An Italian Woman) (1980) as Werner
• 5% de risque (1980) as David
• La provinciale (1981) as Remy
• Etwas wird sichtbar (1981)
• La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias) (1980) as Count Perregaux
• Hands Up! (1981)
• Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceit) (1981) as Georg Laschen
• Der Erfinder (The Inventor) (1981) as Jakob Nüssli
• Logik des Gefühls (1982)
• Polenta (1982) as Jules, le narrateur
• Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace) (1982)
• Dans la ville blanche (In the White City) (1983) as Paul
• Template:Interlanguage link multi (1983) as Faber
• De ijssalon (Private Resistance) (1985) as Gustav
• Killer aus Florida (Killer from Florida) (1983)
• El río de oro (1986) as Peter
• Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie (1986) (TV miniseries) as Heinrich Beck
• Der Pendler (1986)
• Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) (1987) as Damiel
• Un amore di donna (1988) as Franco Bassani
• Bankomatt (1989) as Bruno
• Strapless (1989) as Raymond Forbes
• The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1989) as Ezra Pound
• Tassilo (1991) (TV series) as Tassilo
• Erfolg (Success) (1991) as Engill
• La Domenica specialmente (Especially on Sunday) (1991) as Vittorio (segment "La domenica specialmente")
• Prague (1992) as Josef
• L'Absence (The Absence) (1992) as Player
• The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) as J.P.
• In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!) (1993) as Damiel
• Brandnacht (Night on Fire) (1992) as Peter Keller
• Heller Tag (1994) as Georg
• Diario senza date (1995)
• Saint-Ex (1997) as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day) (1998) as Alexandros
• You Can't Go Home Again (1999) as Narrator (voice)
• WerAngstWolf (2000)
• Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips) (2000) as Fernando Girasole
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust (2001, TV) as Faust
• La forza del passato (The Power of the Past) (2002) as Bogliasco
• Template:Interlanguage link multi (Epstein's Night) (2002) as Adam Rose
• Behind Me – Bruno Ganz (2002) as Himself
• Luther (2003) as Johann von Staupitz
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004) as Delp
• Der Untergang (Downfall) (2004) as Adolf Hitler
• Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2005) as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
• Vitus (2006) as Grandfather
• Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園; Ode an die Freude) (2006) as Kurt Heinrich
• Youth Without Youth (2007) as Prof. Roman Stanciulescu
• Stairway to Nowhere (2008) as Brot Darsteller
• Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex) (2008) as Horst Herold
• Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου (The Dust of Time) (2008) as Jacob
• The Reader (2008) as Professor Rohl
• Giulias Verschwinden (2009) as John
• Der grosse Kater (2010) as Kater
• Taxiphone: El Mektoub (2010)
• Template:Interlanguage link multi (Colours in the Dark) (2010) as Fred
• Das Ende ist mein Anfang (The End Is My Beginning) (2010) as Tiziano Terzani
• Unknown (2011) as Ernst Jürgen
• Sport de filles (2011) as Franz Mann
• Night Train to Lisbon (2013) as Older Jorge O'Kelly
• Michael Kohlhaas (2013) as The Governor
• The Counselor (2013) as Diamond Dealer
• In Order of Disappearance (2014) as Papa
• Amnesia (2015) as Bruno – le grand-père de Jo
• Remember (2015) as Rudy Kurlander #1
• Heidi (2015) as Alpöhi
• Un Juif pour l'exemple (2016)<ref>Template:IMDb title</ref> as Arthur Bloch
• The Party (2017) as Gottfried
• In Times of Fading Light (2017) as Wilhelm Powileit
• Fortuna (2018)
• The House That Jack Built (2018) as Verge
• Radegund (2018)