Michael Kranz
Age: 41 | From:
Person Details
Birthday: 1983-01-01 18:09:30
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth:
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 36
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Scene of the Crime
(1970) Karsten
Bettys Diagnose
(2015) Christoph Wendrup
Die Toten vom Bodensee
(2014) Peter Wolfahrt
Inglourious Basterds
(2009) Herrman #3
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
(2020) Alfons Urban
Rommel
(2012) Karl Daniel
Alpine Rescue
(2009) Steffen Haflinger
War Horse
(2011) Junior German OfficerActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Konrad Dramm | |
| Massenbach | ||
| Simon Steckenbiller | ||
| 2022 | Freddy | |
| N/A | ||
| 2021 | Florian | |
| Henning / Reinhold / Corvin | ||
| 2020 | Alfons Urban | |
| 2019 | Fidelis’ Bruder | |
| N/A | ||
| Telegin | ||
| Dave | ||
| Norbert Holler | ||
| 2018 | Kai | |
| 2017 | N/A | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Pfarrer Kraus | ||
| 2016 | Simon | |
| Landrat Häberle | ||
| Bauer Hans | ||
| Jan Hartog | ||
| Niels | ||
| 2015 | Mr. Kandidat | |
| N/A | ||
| Zugschaffner | ||
| Franz Xaver Lechner | ||
| Michael Schäfer | ||
| Christoph Wendrup | ||
| 2014 | Peter Wolfahrt | |
| Guido | ||
| Paul | ||
| 2013 | Polizist | |
| Otto | ||
| Mr. Rupprecht | ||
| Court Jester | ||
| Bossler | ||
| 2012 | Moritz | |
| Karl Daniel | ||
| German Sergeant | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2011 | Junior German Officer | |
| Alfons | ||
| 2010 | Robert Ostermeier | |
| Flo | ||
| Hans Saler | ||
| 2009 | Steffen Haflinger | |
| The Tutor | ||
| Herrman #3 | ||
| Polizist Kranz | ||
| Niklas | ||
| 2008 | Gendarm Hildebrand | |
| 2004 | Jörg | |
| 2003 | Kai Benner | |
| 1970 | Karsten | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Camera
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Camera Operator | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Director | |
| 2018 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Script | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Sound
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Sound Mixer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
