Michael Kranz
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 17, 1983
- Birthplace
- Ravensburg, Germany
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.
Filmography
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord 2026
as Patrick Wams
Time We Lost 2025
as Lutz Schmauser
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting 2025
as Liebfried Cantor
Raw Materials 2024
as Massenbach
Morin 2023
as Konrad Dramm
Rehragout-Rendezvous 2023
as Simon Steckenbiller
The Young Chief Winnetou 2022
as Freddy
Was Tun 2022
Actor, Writer, Camera Operator, Producer, Director
Hannes 2021
as Florian
12 Tage Sommer 2021
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
The Master Butcher 2019
as Fidelis’ Bruder
FrauMutterTier 2019
as Hannes
The Goldfish 2019
as Kursleiter
Onkel Wanja 2019
as Telegin
Falter 2019
as Dave
Das Leben meiner Tochter 2019
as Norbert Holler
MyBorder's JOYFence 2018
Script, Director
I love Everything I Hate About You 2018
as Kai
Ein Sommer im Allgäu 2017
Actor
Schildkröten Panzer 2017
as Narrator (voice)
Mutter reicht's jetzt 2016
as Simon
Die Büffel sind los! 2016
as Landrat Häberle
King Laurin 2016
as Bauer Hans
The Diary of Anne Frank 2016
as Jan Hartog
Siblings 2016
as Niels
Heidi 2015
as Mr. Kandidat
Another Kind of Light 2015
Actor
Ein Sommer in Masuren 2015
as Zugschaffner
13 Minutes 2015
as Franz Xaver Lechner
- Der Andi ist wieder da
Der Andi ist wieder da 2015
as Michael Schäfer
Hirngespinster 2014
as Guido
Fräulein Else 2014
as Paul
Finsterworld 2013
Actor
The Fifth Estate 2013
as Otto
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? 2013
as Mr. Rupprecht
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte 2013
as Michel
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 2013
as Bossler
Local Heroes 2013
as Lazlo
The Pursuit of Unhappiness 2012
as Moritz
Rommel 2012
as Karl Daniel
Sams im Glück 2012
as Packer 1
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? 2012
as German Sergeant
A Family of Three 2012
Actor
War Horse 2011
as Junior German Officer
Sommer der Gaukler 2011
as Alfons
The Last 30 Years 2010
as Robert Ostermeier
Die Hummel 2010
as Flo
Nanga Parbat 2010
as Hans Saler
The White Ribbon 2009
as The Tutor
Inglourious Basterds 2009
as Herrman #3
Hanna und die Bankräuber 2009
as Polizist Kranz
- Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon 2009
as Niklas
Räuber Kneißl 2008
as Gendarm Hildebrand
Pink Palace, Paradise Beach 1990
Sound Mixer
Credits from TMDB.