Michael Kranz

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1983-04-17 (41 years old)

Place of Birth Ravensburg, Germany

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

Actor

2024
Raw Materials

as Massenbach

2024
The Signal

as Gregor

2023
Morin

as Konrad Dramm

2023
Rehragout-Rendezvous

as Simon Steckenbiller

2021
Hannes

as Florian

2021
12 Tage Sommer

as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin

2020
2019
The Master Butcher

as Fidelis’ Bruder

2019
Onkel Wanja

as Telegin

2019
Falter

as Dave

2019
Das Leben meiner Tochter

as Norbert Holler

2017
Schildkröten Panzer

as Narrator (voice)

2017
Hindafing

as Pfarrer Kraus

2016
Die Büffel sind los!

as Landrat Häberle

2016
King Laurin

as Bauer Hans

2016
2016
Siblings

as Niels

2015
Heidi

as Mr. Kandidat

2015
Ein Sommer in Masuren

as Zugschaffner

2015
13 Minutes

as Franz Xaver Lechner

2015
Der Andi ist wieder da

as Michael Schäfer

2015
Bettys Diagnose

as Christoph Wendrup

2014
2014
2014
Murder by the Lake

as Peter Wolfahrt

2013
2013
Hammer & Sichl

as Polizist

2012
Rommel

as Karl Daniel

2012
Sams im Glück

as Packer 1

2011
War Horse

as Junior German Officer

2011
2010
The Last 30 Years

as Robert Ostermeier

2010
Die Hummel

as Flo

2010
Nanga Parbat

as Hans Saler

2009
The White Ribbon

as The Tutor

2009
Inglourious Basterds

as Herrman #3

2009
Hanna und die Bankräuber

as Polizist Kranz

2009
2009
Alpine Rescue

as Steffen Haflinger

2008
Räuber Kneißl

as Gendarm Hildebrand

2004
München 7

as Jörg

2003
Kommissarin Lucas

as Kai Benner

1970

Director

2022
Was Tun

as Director

2018

Writer

2022
Was Tun

as Writer

Camera

2022
Was Tun

as Camera Operator

Producer

2022
Was Tun

as Producer

Crew

2018

Sound

1990