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Michael Kranz
Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn April 17, 1983 (41 years)
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.
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.
Filmography
| 2025 | Leibniz · as Liebfried Cantor |
| 2024 | The Signal (TV Series) · as Gregor |
| 2023 | The Fine Line (2022) · as Massenbach |
| 2023 | Morin · as Konrad Dramm |
| 2023 | 37 Sekunden (TV Series) · as Oliver |
| 2023 | Rehragout-Rendezvous · as Simon Steckenbiller |
| 2022 | The Young Chief Winnetou · as Freddy |
| 2021 | Hannes · as Florian |
| 2021 | 12 Tage Sommer · as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin |
| 2021 | Totems (TV Series) · as Ludwig Reinhard |
| 2021 | Echos (TV Series) · as Xaver Meindl |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood (TV Series) · as Alfons Urban |
| 2019 | The Master Butcher (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2019 | Helena. Die Künstliche Intelligenz (TV Series) · as Sven |
| 2019 | Vienna Blood (TV Series) · as Professor Neumann |
| 2019 | Das Leben meiner Tochter · as Norbert Holler |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | FrauMutterTier · as Hannes |
| 2019 | Falter · as Dave |
| 2018 | The Master Butcher · as Fidelis’ Bruder |
| 2018 | Labaule & Erben (TV Series) · as Holger |
| 2018 | Shillings from Heaven · as Reporter |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | Onkel Wanja · as Telegin |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Turtle Shells · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Welcome to Hindafing (TV Series) · as Pfarrer Kraus |
| 2016 | Mutter reicht's jetzt · as Simon |
| 2016 | Die Büffel sind los! · as Landrat Häberle |
| 2016 | König Laurin · as Bauer Hans |
| 2016 | The Diary of Anne Frank · as Jan Hartog |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | Ein Sommer in Masuren · as Zugschaffner |
| 2015 | Bridge of Spies · as Checkpoint Guard #1 |
| 2015 | 13 Minutes · as Franz Xaver Lechner |
| 2015 | Bettys Diagnose (TV Series) · as Christoph Wendrup |
| 2014 | Der Andi ist wieder da · as Michael Schäfer |
| 2014 | Murder by the Lake (TV Series) · as Peter Wolfahrt |
| 2014 | Hirngespinster · as Guido |
| 2014 | Monaco 110 (TV Series) · as Justus Hainke |
| 2013 | Fräulein Else · as Paul |
| 2013 | Munich Murder (TV Series) · as Viktor Schratz |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | The Fifth Estate · as Otto |
| 2013 | Wer hat Angst vorm weißen Mann? · as Mr. Rupprecht |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Achtung Polizei! · as Bossler |
| 2012 | The Pursuit of Unhappiness · as Moritz |
| 2012 | |
| 2012 | Sams im Glück · as Packer 1 |
| 2012 | The Boss (DE) (TV Series) · as Leo Sontheimer |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | War Horse · as Junior German Officer |
| 2011 | Sommer der Gaukler · as Alfons |
| 2011 | Hubert und/ohne Staller (TV Series) · as Thomas Bauer |
| 2011 | Hell · as Micha |
| 2010 | Die Hummel · as Flo |
| 2010 | The Last 30 Years · as Robert Ostermeier |
| 2010 | Nanga Parbat · as Hans Saler |
| 2009 | Rescue in the Alps (TV Series) · as Steffen Haflinger |
| 2009 | The White Ribbon · as The Tutor |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds · as Herrman #3 |
| 2009 | Dutschke · as Cast |
| 2008 | Räuber Kneißl · as Gendarm Hildebrand |
| 2004 | Heiter bis tödlich - München 7 (TV Series) · as Jörg |
| 2003 | Commissioner Lucas (TV Series) · as Kai Benner |
| 2002 | Die Rosenheim-Cops (TV Series) · as Benedikt Voglbaur |
| 2002 | For Heaven's Sake (2002) (TV Series) · as Siggi |
| 2000 | Utta Danella (TV Series) · as Schulte |
| 1970 | Tatort (TV Series) · as Karsten |