Michael Kranz
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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
Credits
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
as Herrman #3
War Horse (2011)
as Junior German Officer
The Fifth Estate (2013)
as Otto
Heidi (2015)
as Mr. Kandidat
The White Ribbon (2009)
as The Tutor
13 Minutes (2015)
as Franz Xaver Lechner
Rommel (2012)
as Karl Daniel
The Young Chief Winnetou (2022)
as Freddy
Räuber Kneißl (2008)
as Gendarm Hildebrand
The Diary of Anne Frank (2016)
as Jan Hartog
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord (2026)
as Patrick Wams
Time We Lost (2025)
as Lutz Schmauser
The Goldfish (2019)
as Kursleiter
Nanga Parbat (2010)
as Hans Saler
Siblings (2016)
as Niels
The Master Butcher (2019)
as Fidelis’ Bruder
Local Heroes (2013)
as Lazlo
The Pursuit of Unhappiness (2012)
as Moritz
Ein Sommer in Masuren (2015)
as Zugschaffner
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? (2013)
as Mr. Rupprecht
Fräulein Else (2014)
as Paul
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting (2025)
as Liebfried Cantor
Rehragout-Rendezvous (2023)
as Simon Steckenbiller
Ein Sommer im Allgäu (2017)
Actor
The Last 30 Years (2010)
as Robert Ostermeier
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 (2013)
as Bossler
Das Leben meiner Tochter (2019)
as Norbert Holler
Hannes (2021)
as Florian
Sams im Glück (2012)
as Packer 1
Mutter reicht's jetzt (2016)
as Simon
Die Büffel sind los! (2016)
as Landrat Häberle
Hanna und die Bankräuber (2009)
as Polizist Kranz
A Family of Three (2012)
Actor
Der Andi ist wieder da (2015)
as Michael Schäfer
I love Everything I Hate About You (2018)
as Kai
Raw Materials (2024)
as Massenbach
12 Tage Sommer (2021)
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte (2013)
as Michel
Finsterworld (2013)
Actor
King Laurin (2016)
as Bauer Hans
Hirngespinster (2014)
as Guido
FrauMutterTier (2019)
as Hannes
Die Hummel (2010)
as Flo
Sommer der Gaukler (2011)
as Alfons
Another Kind of Light (2015)
Actor
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? (2012)
as German Sergeant
Falter (2019)
as Dave
Onkel Wanja (2019)
as Telegin
Was Tun (2022)
Actor
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon (2009)
as Niklas
Morin (2023)
as Konrad Dramm
Schildkröten Panzer (2017)
as Narrator (voice)