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Bruno Ganz was a Swiss actor whose career in German television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wim Wenders, earning widespread recognition with his roles as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire (1987).
Born
Saturday, 22 March 1941
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Bankomatt | Bruno | 2023 |
| Wim Wenders: Desperado | Self (archive footage) | 2020 |
| Winter Journey | George Goldsmith / George Goldsmith, born Günther Ludwig Goldschmidt | 2020 |
| Im Reich Der Filme | Self | 2020 |
| A Hidden Life | Richter / Judge Lueben | 2019 |
| The Naked King | Narrator / Narrator German (voice) | 2019 |
| The Tobacconist | Sigmund Freud | 2018 |
| The House That Jack Built | Verge | 2018 |
| Fortuna | Brother Jean | 2018 |
| The Party | Gottfried / Godfried | 2017 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Bankomatt | Bruno | 2023 |
| Wim Wenders: Desperado | Self (archive footage) | 2020 |
| Winter Journey | George Goldsmith / George Goldsmith, born Günther Ludwig Goldschmidt | 2020 |
| Im Reich Der Filme | Self | 2020 |
| A Hidden Life | Richter / Judge Lueben | 2019 |
| The Naked King | Narrator / Narrator German (voice) | 2019 |
| The Tobacconist | Sigmund Freud | 2018 |
| The House That Jack Built | Verge | 2018 |
| Fortuna | Brother Jean | 2018 |
| The Party | Gottfried / Godfried | 2017 |
| In Times of Fading Light | Wilhelm Powileit | 2017 |
| A Jew Must Die | Arthur Bloch | 2016 |
| Heidi | Alpöhi / Alpöhi, Heidi's grandfather | 2015 |
| Remember | Rudy Kurlander #1 | 2015 |
| Look Who's Back | Self | 2015 |
| Amnesia | Bruno / Bruno - le grand-père de Jo | 2015 |
| Giovanni Segantini - Magic of Light | (voice) / Voice of Segantini | 2015 |
| A Borrowed Identity | Damiel | 2014 |
| In Order of Disappearance | Papa / 'Papa' Popovic | 2014 |
| The Counselor | Diamond Dealer | 2013 |
| Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas | The Governor | 2013 |
| Night Train to Lisbon | Older Jorge O'Kelly | 2013 |
| Der Bernd | Self | 2012 |
| Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012 |
| Of Women and Horses | Franz Mann | 2012 |
| Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes | Narrator | 2011 |
| The Frollo Show | Hitler | 2011 |
| Unknown | Ernst Jürgen | 2011 |
| Colors in the Dark | Fred | 2011 |
| The End Is My Beginning | Tiziano Terzani | 2010 |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self | 2010 |
| Der grosse Kater | Kater | 2010 |
| Taxiphone: El Mektoub | 2010 | |
| Julia's Disappearance | John | 2009 |
| The Dust of Time | Jacob | 2009 |
| The Baader Meinhof Complex | Horst Herold | 2008 |
| Copacabana | Herbert Schubert | 2008 |
| One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years | Self | 2008 |
| The Reader | Professor Rohl | 2008 |
| Coda: Thirty Years Later | Self | 2007 |
| Youth Without Youth | Prof. Roman Stanciulescu / Professor Stanciulescu | 2007 |
| The Ode to Joy | Kurt Heinrich | 2006 |
| Vitus | Grandfather | 2006 |
| Er, der Hut, sitzt auf ihm, dem Kopf | 2006 | |
| Die Vitusmacher | Self | 2006 |
| Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II | Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski | 2005 |
| Editor of Illusions | Peter | 2005 |
| Alias Kurban Saïd | Narrator | 2005 |
| Nicolas Bouvier, 22th Hospital Street | Narrator | 2005 |
| Downfall | Adolf Hitler | 2004 |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Delp | 2004 |
| Luther | Johann von Staupitz | 2003 |
| Behind Me - Bruno Ganz | Self | 2003 |
| Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence | Self | 2003 |
| Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us | Self | 2003 |
| Epstein's Night | Adam Rose | 2002 |
| The Power of the Past | Bogliasco | 2002 |
| Epoca: the Making of History | Narrator | 2002 |
| Bread and Tulips | Fernando Girasole / Fernando Girasoli | 2000 |
| WhoAfraidWolf | 2000 | |
| Eternity and a Day | Alexandros | 1998 |
| Gegen Ende der Nacht | Fehleisen | 1998 |
| Saint-Ex | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1996 |
| Tödliches Schweigen | Hans Plache | 1996 |
| Lumière and Company | Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders") / Damiel | 1995 |
| Il grande Fausto | Biagio Cavanna | 1995 |
| Diario senza date | 1995 | |
| Heller Tag | Georg | 1994 |
| Faraway, So Close! | Damiel | 1993 |
| Asmara | Narrator | 1993 |
| Prague | Josef | 1992 |
| The Last Days of Chez Nous | J.P. | 1992 |
| The Absence | Player | 1992 |
| Brandnacht | Peter Keller | 1992 |
| Especially on Sunday | Vittorio (segment "La domenica specialmente") / Vittorio | 1991 |
| Children of Nature | Engill | 1991 |
| Erfolg | Jacques Tüverlin | 1991 |
| Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich | Tassilo | 1991 |
| The Architecture of Doom | Narrator (German, subtitled English versions) / German narrator | 1989 |
| Strapless | Raymond Forbes | 1989 |
| Anwalt Abel | Crusius | 1988 |
| The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway | Ezra Pound | 1988 |
| Wings of Desire | Damiel | 1987 |
| War and Peace | 1986 | |
| Der Pendler | Steiner | 1986 |
| El río de oro | Peter | 1986 |
| Private Resistance | Gustav | 1985 |
| Closed Circuit | Faber | 1983 |
| In the White City | Paul | 1983 |
| Logik des Gefühls | 1982 | |
| Polenta | Jules, le narrateur | 1982 |
| Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti | Sel | 1982 |
| Etwas wird sichtbar | 1982 | |
| Circle of Deceit | Georg Laschen | 1981 |
| Hands Up! | Self (1981 footage) | 1981 |
| La provinciale | Rémy Muller | 1981 |
| The Inventor | Jakob Nüssli | 1980 |
| 5% de risque | David | 1980 |
| Return to the Beloved | Dr. Stephan Kern | 1979 |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Jonathan Harker | 1979 |
| Knife in the Head | Hoffmann / Dr. Berthold Hoffmann | 1978 |
| Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte | Thomas Rosemund | 1978 |
| The Left-Handed Woman | Bruno | 1978 |
| The Boys from Brazil | Professor Bruckner | 1978 |
| The American Friend | Jonathan Zimmermann | 1977 |
| The Wild Duck | Gregers Werle / Gregers | 1976 |
| The Marquise of O | Der Graf | 1976 |
| Lumiere | Heinrich Grun / Heinrich Grün | 1976 |
| Summer Guests | Jakov Shalimov | 1976 |
| Der sanfte Lauf | Bernhard Kral / Bernhard Krahl | 1967 |
| Chikita | Jazzfan | 1962 |
| A Roof Over Your Head | Fred Weber | 1962 |
| The Man in the Black Derby | Hotelpage / Kammerdiener | 1960 |
Director Filmography
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