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.

Filmography

• 2025Films to Die For — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2020Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl — Narrator (voice)
• 2019A Hidden Life — Richter
• 2019The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution — Narrator German (voice)
• 2019The Witness — Nikola Radin
• 2019Winter Journey — George Goldsmith
• 2018Fortuna — Brother Jean
• 2018The House That Jack Built — Verge
• 2018The Tobacconist — Sigmund Freud
• 2017In Times of Fading Light — Wilhelm Powileit
• 2017The Party — Godfried
• 2017To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
• 2016A Jew Must Die — Arthur Bloch
• 2015Amnesia — Bruno
• 2015Beethoven - Egmont, Mozart - Symphony 35 - Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
• 2015Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts — Voice of Segantini
• 2015Heidi — Alpöhi
• 2015Remember — Rudy Kurlander #1
• 2014In Order of Disappearance — Papa
• 2013Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas — The Governor
• 2013Night Train to Lisbon — Older Jorge O'Kelly
• 2013The Counselor — Diamond Dealer
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• 2012Of Women and Horses — Franz Mann
• 2011Colors in the Dark — Fred
• 2011Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes — Narrator (voice)
• 2011Der Kleine Prinz — Geograph
• 2011Unknown — Ernst Jürgen
• 2010Taxiphone — Stranger
• 2010The Day of the Cat — Kater
• 2010The End Is My Beginning — Tiziano Terzani
• 2009Julia's Disappearance — John
• 2008Copacabana — Herbert Schubert
• 2008Ein starker Abgang — Heinz Kilian
• 2008The Baader Meinhof Complex — Horst Herold
• 2008The Dust of Time — Jacob
• 2008The Reader — Professor Rohl
• 2007Youth Without Youth — Professor Stanciulescu
• 2006Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II — Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
• 2006The Ode to Joy — Kurt Heinrich
• 2006Vitus — Grandfather
• 2005Alias Kurban Saïd — Narrator
• 2005Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones — Peter (archive footage)
• 2004Downfall — Adolf Hitler
• 2004The Manchurian Candidate — Delp
• 2003Luther — Johann von Staupitz
• 2002Epsteins Nacht — Adam Rose
• 2002The Power of the Past — Bogliasco
• 2001Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I — Faust
• 2001Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II — Faust
• 2000Antipasto Umbro
• 2000Bread and Tulips — Fernando Girasoli
• 2000WhoAfraidWolf
• 1999You Can't Go Home Again — Narrator (voice)
• 1998Eternity and a Day — Alexandros
• 1998Gegen Ende der Nacht — Fehleisen
• 1997Deadly Silence — Hans Plache
• 1997St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral — Narrator (German voice)
• 1996Saint-Ex — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• 1995Diario senza date
• Il Grande Fausto — Biagio Cavanna
• 1995Lumière & Company — Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
• 1993Faraway, So Close! — Damiel
• 1993The Absence — Player
• 1992Le Quatuor des possibles — Narrateur
• 1992Night on Fire — Peter Keller
• 1992Prague — Josef
• 1992The Last Days of Chez Nous — J.P.
• 1991Children of Nature — Engill
• 1991Especially on Sunday — Vittorio
• 1991Success — Jacques Tüverlin
• Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich — Tassilo
• 1989Bankomatt — Bruno
• 1989Strapless — Raymond Forbes
• 1989The Architecture of Doom — German narrator (voice)
• Anwalt Abel — Crusius
• 1988Love of a Woman — Franco Bassani
• 1988The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway — Ezra Pound
• 1987Wings of Desire — Damiel
• 1986El río de oro — Peter
• Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy — Heinrich Beck
• 1986Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« — Narrator
• 1985Private Resistance — Gustav
• Screen Two — Josef
• 1983Closed Circuit — Faber
• 1983In the White City — Paul
• 1983Killer aus Florida
• 1982Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
• 1982Logik des Gefühls
• 1982Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois — Self, Director
• 1982War and Peace
• 1981Circle of Deceit — Georg Laschen
• La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie — Count Perregaux
• 1981La provinciale — Rémy Muller
• 1981Lady of the Camelias — Count Perregaux
• 19805% de risque — David
• 1980Lost and Found — Werner
• 1980Polenta
• 1980The Inventor — Jakob Nüssli
• 1979Nosferatu the Vampyre — Jonathan Harker
• 1979Return to the Beloved — Dr. Stephan Kern
• 1978Black and White Like Day and Night — Thomas Rosemund
• 1978Knife in the Head — Hoffmann
• 1978The Boys from Brazil — Professor Bruckner
• 1978The Left-Handed Woman — Bruno
• 1977The American Friend — Jonathan Zimmermann
• 1976Lumière — Heinrich Grun
• 1976Summer Guests — Jakov Shalimov
• 1976The Marquise of O — Der Graf
• 1976The Wild Duck — Gregers Werle
• 1974Die Bakchen — Pentheus
• 1973Prinz Friedrich von Homburg — Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
• 1972The Ignoramus and the Madman
• 1971Die Mutter
• 1970Eine große Familie — Heinz Hallasch
• Scene of the Crime — Bombadil
• 1969Torquato Tasso — Torquato Tasso
• 1968Die Schlacht bei Lobositz — Ulrich Braeker
• 1968Im Dickicht der Städte — George Garga
• 1967The Soft Course — Bernhard Krahl
• 1966Die Unberatenen
• 1966Frühlings Erwachen — Moritz Stiefel
• 1964Der Spaßvogel — Johnny
• 1962A Roof Over Your Head — Fred Weber
• 1962Chikita — Jazzfan
• 1960Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone — Kammerdiener

Appearances as themselves (29)

• 2022Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary — Self
• Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen — Self
• 2020Wim Wenders, Desperado — Self (archive footage)
• Spiel für dein Land — Self
• 2014Dancing Arabs — Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
• 2008One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years — Self
• 2007Coda: Thirty Years Later — Self
• 2005Hitler's Final Days: The Movie 'Downfall' — Self
• 2004Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• 2003Behind Me — Self
• 2003Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence — Self
• Menschen bei Maischberger — Self
• Our Best — Self
• 2003Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us — Self
• Das Jahrhundert des Theaters — Self
• 2000Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor — Self (archive footage)
• 2000The End of an Eternity — Self
• Sternstunde Kunst — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• Boulevard Bio — Self
• 1985Hands Up! — Self (1981 footage)
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Bavarian Film Awards — Self
• 1979The Making of 'Nosferatu' — Self
• Grimme Award — Self
• Zur Person — Self
• German Film Award — Self
• Bambi — Self