Bruno Ganz: a life in pictures
The Swiss actor has died at the age of 77. Best known for his roles as an angel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall, here we look back at his career
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Ganz with Dennis Hopper in Wim Wenders’s The American Friend, 1977
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
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Ganz as Jonathan Harker with Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula in Werner Herzog’s 1979 horror film, Nosferatu the Vampyre
Photograph: Allstar
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Ganz as journalist Georg Laschen in the 1981 Beirut-set war film, Circle of Deceit
Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock
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Bruno Ganz as angel Damiel in Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire, 1987
Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar
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Blair Brown and Ganz in David Hare’s 1989 romantic drama Strapless
Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar
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Lisa Harrow, Miranda Otto, Kerry Fox and Ganz in the 1992 romcom The Last Days of Chez Nous
Photograph: Ronald Grant
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Ganz and Willem Dafoe in Wim Wenders’s 1993 movie Faraway, So Close!
Photograph: Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
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Ganz as Adolf Hitler in 2004’s Downfall
Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock
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Ganz with Tim Roth in Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth, 2007
Photograph: Ronald Grant
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Kate Winslet hugs Ganz as he presents her with a Bambi award for her role in the movie The Reader (in which he also starred) in Potsdam, Germany, 26 November 2009
Photograph: Gero Breloer/AP
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Cherry Jones, Timothy Spall, Ganz and Patricia Clarkson in Sally Potter’s 2017 comedy drama The Party
Photograph: Adventure Pictures/Allstar
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Ganz as Sigmund Freud on set during the filming of 2018’s The Tobacconist in Munich, Germany
Photograph: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images
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Bruno Ganz, 1941-2019
Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images
