Bruno Ganz: movies and TV shows
Bruno Ganz has 156 credits in the archive: 135 films and 21 TV series, from 1948 to 2025. Highest rated: Bambi (9.0/10).
Career timeline
1948 – 2025 · busiest year: 2003 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Films to Die For | (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | — | 84 |
| 2022 | Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary | Self | Film | — | 81 |
| 2020 | Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen | Self | TV | 10.0 | 79 |
| 2020 | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 79 |
| 2020 | Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 79 |
| 2019 | A Hidden Life | Richter | Film | 7.2 | 78 |
| 2019 | Winter Journey | George Goldsmith | Film | 8.0 | 78 |
| 2019 | The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution | Narrator German (voice) | Film | — | 78 |
| 2019 | The Witness | Nikola Radin | Film | 7.0 | 78 |
| 2018 | The House That Jack Built | Verge | Film | 7.1 | 77 |
| 2018 | Fortuna | Brother Jean | Film | 6.8 | 77 |
| 2018 | The Tobacconist | Sigmund Freud | Film | 6.4 | 77 |
| 2017 | The Party | Godfried | Film | 6.3 | 76 |
| 2017 | In Times of Fading Light | Wilhelm Powileit | Film | 6.6 | 76 |
| 2017 | To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke | Film | — | 76 | |
| 2016 | A Jew Must Die | Arthur Bloch | Film | 4.8 | 75 |
| 2015 | Heidi | Alpöhi | Film | 7.3 | 74 |
| 2015 | Spiel für dein Land | Self | TV | — | 74 |
| 2015 | Remember | Rudy Kurlander #1 | Film | 7.4 | 74 |
| 2015 | Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts | Voice of Segantini | Film | 6.5 | 74 |
| 2015 | Amnesia | Bruno | Film | 5.5 | 74 |
| 2015 | Beethoven - Egmont, Mozart - Symphony 35 - Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Film | — | 74 | |
| 2014 | In Order of Disappearance | Papa | Film | 6.9 | 73 |
| 2014 | Dancing Arabs | Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 73 |
| 2013 | The Counselor | Diamond Dealer | Film | 5.3 | 72 |
| 2013 | Night Train to Lisbon | Older Jorge O'Kelly | Film | 6.5 | 72 |
| 2013 | Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas | The Governor | Film | 5.9 | 72 |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 71 |
| 2012 | Of Women and Horses | Franz Mann | Film | 5.6 | 71 |
| 2011 | Unknown | Ernst Jürgen | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2011 | Colors in the Dark | Fred | Film | 5.4 | 70 |
| 2011 | Der Kleine Prinz | Geograph | Film | — | 70 |
| 2011 | Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 70 |
| 2010 | The Day of the Cat | Kater | Film | 4.8 | 69 |
| 2010 | Taxiphone | Stranger | Film | 4.0 | 69 |
| 2010 | The End Is My Beginning | Tiziano Terzani | Film | 6.1 | 69 |
| 2009 | Julia's Disappearance | John | Film | 6.7 | 68 |
| 2008 | The Reader | Professor Rohl | Film | 7.5 | 67 |
| 2008 | The Baader Meinhof Complex | Horst Herold | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2008 | Copacabana | Herbert Schubert | Film | 2.0 | 67 |
| 2008 | The Dust of Time | Jacob | Film | 6.3 | 67 |
| 2008 | One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years | Self | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2008 | Ein starker Abgang | Heinz Kilian | Film | 6.5 | 67 |
| 2007 | Youth Without Youth | Professor Stanciulescu | Film | 6.1 | 66 |
| 2007 | Coda: Thirty Years Later | Self | Film | 4.8 | 66 |
| 2006 | Vitus | Grandfather | Film | 7.4 | 65 |
| 2006 | The Ode to Joy | Kurt Heinrich | Film | 6.0 | 65 |
| 2006 | Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II | Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski | Film | 5.1 | 65 |
| 2005 | Alias Kurban Saïd | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2005 | Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones | Peter (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2005 | Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" | Self | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2004 | Kulturplatz | Self | TV | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2004 | Downfall | Adolf Hitler | Film | 7.9 | 63 |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Delp | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 2004 | Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler | Self | Film | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2003 | Menschen bei Maischberger | Self | TV | 7.3 | 62 |
| 2003 | Luther | Johann von Staupitz | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2003 | Our Best | Self | TV | — | 62 |
| 2003 | Behind Me | Self | Film | — | 62 |
| 2003 | Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence | Self | Film | — | 62 |
| 2003 | Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us | Self | Film | 8.3 | 62 |
| 2002 | Epsteins Nacht | Adam Rose | Film | 9.0 | 61 |
| 2002 | Das Jahrhundert des Theaters | Self | TV | 9.0 | 61 |
| 2002 | The Power of the Past | Bogliasco | Film | 10.0 | 61 |
| 2001 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I | Faust | Film | 10.0 | 60 |
| 2001 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II | Faust | Film | 8.0 | 60 |
| 2000 | Antipasti Umbro | Film | — | 59 | |
| 2000 | Bread and Tulips | Fernando Girasoli | Film | 7.2 | 59 |
| 2000 | WhoAfraidWolf | Film | 7.0 | 59 | |
| 2000 | Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 59 |
| 2000 | The End of an Eternity | Self | Film | — | 59 |
| 1999 | You Can't Go Home Again | Narrator (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 58 |
| 1998 | Sternstunde Kunst | Self | TV | — | 57 |
| 1998 | Eternity and a Day | Alexandros | Film | 7.8 | 57 |
| 1998 | Gegen Ende der Nacht | Fehleisen | Film | 5.0 | 57 |
| 1997 | Leute heute | Self | TV | 5.2 | 56 |
| 1997 | Deadly Silence | Hans Plache | Film | 4.0 | 56 |
| 1997 | St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral | Narrator (German voice) | Film | — | 56 |
| 1996 | Saint-Ex | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Film | 4.3 | 55 |
| 1995 | Lumière & Company | Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders") | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1995 | Il Grande Fausto | Biagio Cavanna | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1995 | Diario senza date | Film | 10.0 | 54 | |
| 1993 | The Absence | Player | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1993 | Faraway, So Close! | Damiel | Film | 6.9 | 52 |
| 1992 | The Last Days of Chez Nous | J.P. | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1992 | Le Quatuor des possibles | Narrateur | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 1992 | Prague | Josef | Film | 6.4 | 51 |
| 1992 | Night on Fire | Peter Keller | Film | 4.7 | 51 |
| 1991 | Boulevard Bio | Self | TV | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1991 | Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich | Tassilo | TV | 9.0 | 50 |
| 1991 | Especially on Sunday | Vittorio | Film | 6.2 | 50 |
| 1991 | Children of Nature | Engill | Film | 6.0 | 50 |
| 1991 | Success | Jacques Tüverlin | Film | 4.7 | 50 |
| 1989 | The Architecture of Doom | German narrator (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 48 |
| 1989 | Bankomatt | Bruno | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 1989 | Strapless | Raymond Forbes | Film | 7.4 | 48 |
| 1988 | Anwalt Abel | Crusius | TV | — | 47 |
| 1988 | Love of a Woman | Franco Bassani | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1988 | The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway | Ezra Pound | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1987 | Wings of Desire | Damiel | Film | 7.8 | 46 |
| 1986 | El río de oro | Peter | Film | 4.4 | 45 |
| 1986 | Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy | Heinrich Beck | TV | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1986 | Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« | Narrator | Film | — | 45 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Josef | TV | 7.1 | 44 |
| 1985 | Private Resistance | Gustav | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1985 | Hands Up! | Self (1981 footage) | Film | 5.6 | 44 |
| 1984 | Goldene Kamera | Self | TV | 5.7 | 43 |
| 1983 | Killer aus Florida | Film | 8.0 | 42 | |
| 1983 | Closed Circuit | Faber | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1983 | In the White City | Paul | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1982 | Before Your Eyes - Vietnam | Film | 7.0 | 41 | |
| 1982 | Logik des Gefühls | Film | 10.0 | 41 | |
| 1982 | War and Peace | Film | 4.5 | 41 | |
| 1982 | Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois | Self | Film | 4.0 | 41 |
| 1982 | Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois | Film | 4.0 | 41 | |
| 1981 | Circle of Deceit | Georg Laschen | Film | 6.1 | 40 |
| 1981 | Lady of the Camelias | Count Perregaux | Film | 6.1 | 40 |
| 1981 | La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie | Count Perregaux | TV | 4.0 | 40 |
| 1981 | La provinciale | Rémy Muller | Film | 5.7 | 40 |
| 1980 | Polenta | Film | 9.0 | 39 | |
| 1980 | 5% de risque | David | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1980 | The Inventor | Jakob Nüssli | Film | 6.4 | 39 |
| 1980 | Lost and Found | Werner | Film | 5.3 | 39 |
| 1979 | Bavarian Film Awards | Self | TV | — | 38 |
| 1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | Jonathan Harker | Film | 7.3 | 38 |
| 1979 | Return to the Beloved | Dr. Stephan Kern | Film | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1979 | The Making of 'Nosferatu' | Self | Film | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1978 | The Boys from Brazil | Professor Bruckner | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1978 | The Left-Handed Woman | Bruno | Film | 6.9 | 37 |
| 1978 | Black and White Like Day and Night | Thomas Rosemund | Film | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1978 | Knife in the Head | Hoffmann | Film | 6.1 | 37 |
| 1977 | The American Friend | Jonathan Zimmermann | Film | 7.1 | 36 |
| 1976 | The Marquise of O | Der Graf | Film | 6.7 | 35 |
| 1976 | Summer Guests | Jakov Shalimov | Film | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1976 | Lumière | Heinrich Grun | Film | 6.8 | 35 |
| 1976 | The Wild Duck | Gregers Werle | Film | 9.0 | 35 |
| 1974 | Die Bakchen | Pentheus | Film | 10.0 | 33 |
| 1973 | Prinz Friedrich von Homburg | Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg | Film | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1972 | The Ignoramus and the Madman | Film | — | 31 | |
| 1971 | Die Mutter | Film | 10.0 | 30 | |
| 1970 | Scene of the Crime | Bombadil | TV | 6.2 | 29 |
| 1970 | Eine große Familie | Heinz Hallasch | Film | 8.0 | 29 |
| 1969 | Torquato Tasso | Torquato Tasso | Film | 7.0 | 28 |
| 1968 | Im Dickicht der Städte | George Garga | Film | 10.0 | 27 |
| 1968 | Die Schlacht bei Lobositz | Ulrich Braeker | Film | 9.0 | 27 |
| 1967 | The Soft Course | Bernhard Krahl | Film | 6.3 | 26 |
| 1966 | Frühlings Erwachen | Moritz Stiefel | Film | 9.0 | 25 |
| 1966 | Die Unberatenen | Film | 10.0 | 25 | |
| 1964 | Grimme Award | Self | TV | — | 23 |
| 1964 | Der Spaßvogel | Johnny | Film | 8.0 | 23 |
| 1963 | Zur Person | Self | TV | — | 22 |
| 1962 | Chikita | Jazzfan | Film | 7.0 | 21 |
| 1962 | A Roof Over Your Head | Fred Weber | Film | 7.0 | 21 |
| 1960 | Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone | Kammerdiener | Film | 7.0 | 19 |
| 1951 | German Film Award | Self | TV | 6.0 | 10 |
| 1948 | Bambi | Self | TV | 9.0 | 7 |