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Michael Kranz

Actor

Michael Kranz

Born April 17, 1983 in Ravensburg, Germany50 films

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.

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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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Inglourious Basterds posterFirst watchInglourious Basterds20098.2as Herrman #3In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
War Horse poster7.3War Horse2011The White Ribbon poster7.5The White Ribbon2009Heidi poster7.3Heidi2015The Fifth Estate poster6.0The Fifth Estate201313 Minutes poster6.813 Minutes2015The Diary of Anne Frank poster7.2The Diary of Anne Frank2016The Goldfish poster6.4The Goldfish2019Nanga Parbat poster6.6Nanga Parbat2010

Filmography

50 films as actor
  1. 2026Der Garmisch Krimi - WolfsmordPatrick Wams
  2. 2025Time We LostLutz Schmauser
  3. 2025Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost PaintingLiebfried Cantor
  4. 2024Raw MaterialsMassenbach
  5. 2023MorinKonrad Dramm
  6. 2023Rehragout-RendezvousSimon Steckenbiller
  7. 2022The Young Chief WinnetouFreddy
  8. 2021HannesFlorian
  9. 202112 Tage SommerHenning / Reinhold / Corvin
  10. 2019The Master ButcherFidelis’ Bruder
  11. 2019FrauMutterTierHannes
  12. 2019The GoldfishKursleiter
  13. 2019Onkel WanjaTelegin
  14. 2019FalterDave
  15. 2019Das Leben meiner TochterNorbert Holler
  16. 2018I love Everything I Hate About YouKai
  17. 2017Ein Sommer im Allgäu
  18. 2016Mutter reicht's jetztSimon
  19. 2016Die Büffel sind los!Landrat Häberle
  20. 2016King LaurinBauer Hans
  21. 2016The Diary of Anne FrankJan Hartog
  22. 2016SiblingsNiels
  23. 2015HeidiMr. Kandidat
  24. 2015Another Kind of Light
  25. 2015Ein Sommer in MasurenZugschaffner
  26. 201513 MinutesFranz Xaver Lechner
  27. 2015Der Andi ist wieder daMichael Schäfer
  28. 2014HirngespinsterGuido
  29. 2014Fräulein ElsePaul
  30. 2013Finsterworld
  31. 2013The Fifth EstateOtto
  32. 2013Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?Mr. Rupprecht
  33. 2013Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollteMichel
  34. 2013Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11Bossler
  35. 2013Local HeroesLazlo
  36. 2012The Pursuit of UnhappinessMoritz
  37. 2012RommelKarl Daniel
  38. 2012Sams im GlückPacker 1
  39. 2012Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?German Sergeant
  40. 2012A Family of Three
  41. 2011War HorseJunior German Officer
  42. 2011Sommer der GauklerAlfons
  43. 2010The Last 30 YearsRobert Ostermeier
  44. 2010Die HummelFlo
  45. 2010Nanga ParbatHans Saler
  46. 2009The White RibbonThe Tutor
  47. 2009Inglourious BasterdsHerrman #3
  48. 2009Hanna und die BankräuberPolizist Kranz
  49. 2009Zwei Zimmer, BalkonNiklas
  50. 2008Räuber KneißlGendarm Hildebrand