Michael Kranz
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
Scene of the Crime
Inglourious Basterds
Bettys Diagnose
Heidi
Die Bergretter
Die Bergretter
Kommissarin Lucas
War Horse
All Movies (52)
- Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord2026 · as Patrick Wams
- Time We Lost2025 · as Lutz Schmauser
- Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting2025 · as Liebfried Cantor
- Raw Materials2024 · as Massenbach
- Morin2023 · as Konrad Dramm
- Rehragout-Rendezvous2023 · as Simon Steckenbiller
- The Young Chief Winnetou2022 · as Freddy
- Was Tun2022
- Hannes2021 · as Florian
- 12 Tage Sommer2021 · as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
- The Master Butcher2019 · as Fidelis’ Bruder
- FrauMutterTier2019 · as Hannes
- The Goldfish2019 · as Kursleiter
- Onkel Wanja2019 · as Telegin
- Falter2019 · as Dave
- Das Leben meiner Tochter2019 · as Norbert Holler
- I love Everything I Hate About You2018 · as Kai
- Ein Sommer im Allgäu2017
- Schildkröten Panzer2017 · as Narrator (voice)
- Mutter reicht's jetzt2016 · as Simon
- Die Büffel sind los!2016 · as Landrat Häberle
- King Laurin2016 · as Bauer Hans
- The Diary of Anne Frank2016 · as Jan Hartog
- Siblings2016 · as Niels
- Heidi2015 · as Mr. Kandidat
- Another Kind of Light2015
- Ein Sommer in Masuren2015 · as Zugschaffner
- 13 Minutes2015 · as Franz Xaver Lechner
- Der Andi ist wieder da2015 · as Michael Schäfer
- Hirngespinster2014 · as Guido
- Fräulein Else2014 · as Paul
- Finsterworld2013
- The Fifth Estate2013 · as Otto
- Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?2013 · as Mr. Rupprecht
- Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte2013 · as Michel
- Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 112013 · as Bossler
- Local Heroes2013 · as Lazlo
- The Pursuit of Unhappiness2012 · as Moritz
- Rommel2012 · as Karl Daniel
- Sams im Glück2012 · as Packer 1
- Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?2012 · as German Sergeant
- A Family of Three2012
- War Horse2011 · as Junior German Officer
- Sommer der Gaukler2011 · as Alfons
- The Last 30 Years2010 · as Robert Ostermeier
- Die Hummel2010 · as Flo
- Nanga Parbat2010 · as Hans Saler
- The White Ribbon2009 · as The Tutor
- Inglourious Basterds2009 · as Herrman #3
- Hanna und die Bankräuber2009 · as Polizist Kranz
- Zwei Zimmer, Balkon2009 · as Niklas
- Räuber Kneißl2008 · as Gendarm Hildebrand
All TV Shows (12)
- Die Augenzeugen2024 · as Sascha Wolf
- The Signal2024 · as Gregor
- Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood2020 · as Alfons Urban
- Hindafing2017 · as Pfarrer Kraus
- Bettys Diagnose2015 · as Christoph Wendrup
- Murder by the Lake2014 · as Peter Wolfahrt
- Hammer & Sichl2013 · as Polizist
- Die Bergretter2009 · as Steffen Haflinger
- Die Bergretter2009 · as Mathias Baumgartner
- München 72004 · as Jörg
- Kommissarin Lucas2003 · as Kai Benner
- Scene of the Crime1970 · as Karsten