Michael Kranz
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 17, 1983 (age 43)
- Birthplace
- Ravensburg, Germany
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
Filmography
Mabuse
TV · as Henrik Mars
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Movie · as Patrick Wams
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Movie · as Liebfried Cantor
Time We Lost
Movie · as Lutz Schmauser
Raw Materials
Movie · as Massenbach
The Signal
TV · as Gregor · 4 eps
Die Augenzeugen
TV · as Sascha Wolf · 4 eps
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Movie · as Simon Steckenbiller
Morin
Movie · as Konrad Dramm
Was Tun
Movie
The Young Chief Winnetou
Movie · as Freddy
12 Tage Sommer
Movie · as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Hannes
Movie · as Florian
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
TV · as Alfons Urban · 6 eps
Falter
Movie · as Dave
The Master Butcher
Movie · as Fidelis’ Bruder
Onkel Wanja
Movie · as Telegin
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Movie · as Norbert Holler
The Goldfish
Movie · as Kursleiter
FrauMutterTier
Movie · as Hannes
I love Everything I Hate About You
Movie · as Kai
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Movie
Schildkröten Panzer
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Hindafing
TV · as Pfarrer Kraus · 12 eps
Die Büffel sind los!
Movie · as Landrat Häberle
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Movie · as Simon
Siblings
Movie · as Niels
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie · as Jan Hartog
King Laurin
Movie · as Bauer Hans
Another Kind of Light
Movie
13 Minutes
Movie · as Franz Xaver Lechner
Der Andi ist wieder da
Movie · as Michael Schäfer
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Movie · as Zugschaffner
Heidi
Movie · as Mr. Kandidat
Bettys Diagnose
TV · as Christoph Wendrup · 1 ep
Hirngespinster
Movie · as Guido
Fräulein Else
Movie · as Paul
Murder by the Lake
TV · as Peter Wolfahrt · 1 ep
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Movie · as Michel
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Movie · as Bossler
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Movie · as Mr. Rupprecht
The Fifth Estate
Movie · as Otto
Finsterworld
Movie
Local Heroes
Movie · as Lazlo
Hammer & Sichl
TV · as Polizist · 1 ep
Sams im Glück
Movie · as Packer 1
A Family of Three
Movie
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Movie · as Moritz
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
Movie · as German Sergeant
Rommel
Movie · as Karl Daniel
War Horse
Movie · as Junior German Officer
Sommer der Gaukler
Movie · as Alfons
Die Hummel
Movie · as Flo
The Last 30 Years
Movie · as Robert Ostermeier
Nanga Parbat
Movie · as Hans Saler
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Movie · as Niklas
Inglourious Basterds
Movie · as Herrman #3
The White Ribbon
Movie · as The Tutor
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Movie · as Polizist Kranz
Die Bergretter
TV · as Steffen Haflinger, Mathias Baumgartner · 1 ep
Räuber Kneißl
Movie · as Gendarm Hildebrand
München 7
TV · as Jörg · 1 ep
Kommissarin Lucas
TV · as Kai Benner · 1 ep
Scene of the Crime
TV · as Karsten · 1 ep