Biography
Bruno Ganz was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, Theo Angelopoulos 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).
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Awards & recognition
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal · 2015
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award · 2010
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · 2007
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · 2006
- Austrian Decoration — Science and Art · 2005
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- Bambi Award · 2004
- Cross of Merit First Class of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit · 2001
- Theaterpreis Berlin · 2001
- Iffland-Ring · 1996
- Swiss Grand Prix — performing arts / Hans Reinhart Ring · 1991
- David di Donatello Award — Lifetime Achievement
- Officer of Arts and Letters
- European Film Award — Best Actor · 2004 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Actor · 2000 · nominated
Filmography32 titles
Winter Journey
Downfall
Wings of Desire
The Reader
Remember
Vitus
The Architecture of Doom
Nosferatu the Vampyre
A Hidden Life
Heidi
The House That Jack Built
The American Friend
The Baader Meinhof Complex
In Order of Disappearance
Unknown
The Boys from Brazil
The Marquise of O
A Borrowed Identity
Night Train to Lisbon
The Manchurian Candidate
Luther
The Tobacconist
The Party
Scene of the Crime
Youth Without Youth
Knife in the Head
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Of Women and Horses
Amnesia
The Counselor
Saint-Ex
Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence