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Ganz played a professor opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in the thriller The Boys from Brazil (1978), about Nazi fugitives. Ganz in 2017. In 1987 Ganz first played the role of the angel Damiel in Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire. He reprised the role in Faraway, So Close! in 1993.
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In Sally Potter’s spiky comedy The Party (2017) he was amusing as the wishy-washy life coach and healer forever being disparaged by his wife (Patricia Clarkson).
He also starred in international features that reached a global audience. His film debut was The Gentleman in the Black Derby (1960). He also starred in Unknown (2011), The Counselor (2013), and The Party (2017). Ganz died from cancer on 16 February 2019 at his home in the village of Au, in Wädenswil, Switzerland.
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- March 22, 1941
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- February 16, 2019
The Party is a 2017 British black comedy film written and directed by Sally Potter. The film was shot in black and white and features a seven-actor ensemble of Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Kristin Scott Thomas and Timothy Spall.
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His film debut was The Gentleman in the Black Derby (1960). He also starred in Unknown (2011), The Counselor (2013), and The Party (2017). On stage, Ganz portrayed Dr. Heinrich Faust in Peter Stein's staging of Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two in 2000. Ganz is widely considered the greatest living actor in the German language.
- March 22, 1941
- February 16, 2019
Feb 16, 2019 · Bruno Ganz, the melancholy Swiss film actor who played an angel longing for the visceral joys of mortality in “Wings of Desire” and a defeated Hitler with trembling hands facing his own...
Feb 16, 2018 · Edit page. The Party: Directed by Sally Potter. With Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz. Janet hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive, it becomes clear that not everything will be going down as smoothly as the red wine.
