Michael Kranz
Acting
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
Acting63
movieDer Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
2026
Patrick Wams
movieTime We Lost
2025
Lutz Schmauser
movieLeibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
2025
Liebfried Cantor
tvDie Augenzeugen
2024
Sascha Wolf
movieRaw Materials
2024
Massenbach
tvThe Signal
2024
Gregor
movieMorin
2023
Konrad Dramm
movieRehragout-Rendezvous
2023
Simon Steckenbiller
movieHannes
2021
Florian
movie12 Tage Sommer
2021
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
tvOktoberfest: Beer and Blood
2020
Alfons Urban
movieThe Master Butcher
2019
Fidelis’ Bruder
movieFrauMutterTier
2019
Hannes
movieThe Goldfish
2019
Kursleiter
movieOnkel Wanja
2019
Telegin
movieFalter
2019
Dave
movieDas Leben meiner Tochter
2019
Norbert Holler
movieSchildkröten Panzer
2017
Narrator (voice)
tvHindafing
2017
Pfarrer Kraus
movieDie Büffel sind los!
2016
Landrat Häberle
movieKing Laurin
2016
Bauer Hans
movieThe Diary of Anne Frank
2016
Jan Hartog
movieSiblings
2016
Niels
movieHeidi
2015
Mr. Kandidat
movieEin Sommer in Masuren
2015
Zugschaffner
movie13 Minutes
2015
Franz Xaver Lechner
Der Andi ist wieder da
2015
Michael Schäfer
tvBettys Diagnose
2015
Christoph Wendrup
tvMurder by the Lake
2014
Peter Wolfahrt
tvHammer & Sichl
2013
Polizist
movieWer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
2013
Mr. Rupprecht
movieRommel
2012
Karl Daniel
movieSams im Glück
2012
Packer 1
movieWho's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
2012
German Sergeant
movieWar Horse
2011
Junior German Officer
movieThe Last 30 Years
2010
Robert Ostermeier
movieNanga Parbat
2010
Hans Saler
tvDie Bergretter
2009
Steffen Haflinger / Mathias Baumgartner
movieThe White Ribbon
2009
The Tutor
movieInglourious Basterds
2009
Herrman #3
movieHanna und die Bankräuber
2009
Polizist Kranz
movieRäuber Kneißl
2008
Gendarm Hildebrand
tvMünchen 7
2004
Jörg
tvKommissarin Lucas
2003
Kai Benner
tvScene of the Crime
1970
Karsten
Directing2
movieWas Tun
2022
Director
movieMyBorder's JOYFence
2018
Director
Camera1
movieWas Tun
2022
Camera Operator
Crew1
Production1
movieWas Tun
2022
Producer
Sound1
moviePink Palace, Paradise Beach
1990
Sound Mixer
Writing1
movieWas Tun
2022
Writer