Michael Kranz
Biography
Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.
He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism.
Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018.
His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.
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- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Karsten
- Inglourious Basterds (2009) as Herrman #3
- Heidi (2015) as Mr. Kandidat
- Bettys Diagnose (2015) as Christoph Wendrup
- Die Bergretter (2009) as Steffen Haflinger
- Die Bergretter (2009) as Mathias Baumgartner
- War Horse (2011) as Junior German Officer
- Kommissarin Lucas (2003) as Kai Benner
- Murder by the Lake (2014) as Peter Wolfahrt
- München 7 (2004) as Jörg
- The Signal (2024) as Gregor
- Die Augenzeugen (2024) as Sascha Wolf
- The Fifth Estate (2013) as Otto
- Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood (2020) as Alfons Urban
- The White Ribbon (2009) as The Tutor
- Hammer & Sichl (2013) as Polizist
- 13 Minutes (2015) as Franz Xaver Lechner
- Rommel (2012) as Karl Daniel
- Hindafing (2017) as Pfarrer Kraus
- Time We Lost (2025) as Lutz Schmauser
- Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord (2026) as Patrick Wams
- The Diary of Anne Frank (2016) as Jan Hartog
- Nanga Parbat (2010) as Hans Saler
- The Goldfish (2019) as Kursleiter