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Michael Kranz
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.5
Verkäufer
Time We Lost
2025
6.5
Liebfried Cantor
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
2025
9.0
Sascha Wolf
Eyewitness
2024
5.3
Massenbach
Raw Materials
2024
6.4
Gregor
The Signal
2024
0.5
Konrad Dramm
Morin
2023
6.6
Simon Steckenbiller
Rehragout-Rendezvous
2023
4.3
Freddy
The Young Chief Winnetou
2022
8.0
Was Tun
2022
5.3
Florian
Hannes
2021
Credits
Time We Lost
as Verkäufer
2025
6.5
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
as Liebfried Cantor
2025
6.5
Eyewitness
as Sascha Wolf
2024
9.0
Raw Materials
as Massenbach
2024
5.3
The Signal
as Gregor
2024
6.4
Morin
as Konrad Dramm
2023
0.5
Rehragout-Rendezvous
as Simon Steckenbiller
2023
6.6
The Young Chief Winnetou
as Freddy
2022
4.3
Was Tun
2022
8.0
Hannes
as Florian
2021
5.3
12 Tage Sommer
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
2021
5.6
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
as Alfons Urban
2020
6.7
The Master Butcher
as Fidelis’ Bruder
2019
7.9
FrauMutterTier
2019
5.0
The Goldfish
2019
6.4
Onkel Wanja
as Telegin
2019
2.7
Falter
as Dave
2019
0.0
Das Leben meiner Tochter
as Norbert Holler
2019
6.8
I love Everything I Hate About You
as Kai
2018
4.0
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017
6.4
Schildkröten Panzer
as Narrator (voice)
2017
0.0
Hindafing
as Pfarrer Kraus
2017
6.9
Mutter reicht's jetzt
as Simon
2016
4.0
Die Büffel sind los!
as Landrat Häberle
2016
4.8
King Laurin
as Bauer Hans
2016
6.5
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Jan Hartog
2016
7.2
Siblings
as Niels
2016
3.3
Heidi
as Mr. Kandidat
2015
7.2
Another Kind of Light
2015
5.8
Ein Sommer in Masuren
as Zugschaffner
2015
5.4
13 Minutes
as Franz Xaver Lechner
2015
6.8
🎬
Der Andi ist wieder da
as Michael Schäfer
2015
0.0
Bettys Diagnose
as Christoph Wendrup
2015
5.0
Murder by the Lake
as Peter Wolfahrt
2014
6.9
Hirngespinster
as Guido
2014
5.5
Fräulein Else
as Paul
2014
5.0
Hammer & Sichl
as Polizist
2013
0.0
Finsterworld
2013
6.4
The Fifth Estate
as Otto
2013
6.0
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
as Mr. Rupprecht
2013
5.3
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
as Michel
2013
6.5
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
as Bossler
2013
0.0
Local Heroes
as Lazlo
2013
0.0
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
as Moritz
2012
5.9
Rommel
as Karl Daniel
2012
6.2
Sams im Glück
as Packer 1
2012
5.3
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
as German Sergeant
2012
7.0
A Family of Three
2012
5.0
War Horse
as Junior German Officer
2011
7.3
Sommer der Gaukler
as Alfons
2011
6.0
The Last 30 Years
as Robert Ostermeier
2010
1.0
🎬
Die Hummel
as Flo
2010
0.0
Nanga Parbat
as Hans Saler
2010
6.6
Die Bergretter
as Steffen Haflinger
2009
6.3
The White Ribbon
as The Tutor
2009
7.5
Inglourious Basterds
as Herrman #3
2009
8.2
Hanna und die Bankräuber
as Polizist Kranz
2009
0.0
🎬
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
as Niklas
2009
0.0
Räuber Kneißl
as Gendarm Hildebrand
2008
4.7
München 7
as Jörg
2004
7.0
Kommissarin Lucas
as Kai Benner
2003
5.7
Scene of the Crime
as Karsten
1970
6.1
🎬
An der Grenze - Der Wolf
as Patrick Wams
N/A
0.0