CNET: Bruno Ganz, whose Hitler scene from Downfall took over YouTube, dies at 77
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Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, Theo Angelopoulos and Wim Wenders, earning widespread recognition with his roles as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre (197…
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Born 22 March 1941 · Died 16 February 2019 · Q123206
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2019· 7 entries
Yahoo: Bruno Ganz: He Played Hitler and a Hovering Angel, But Was Most Memorable When Caught Between Good and Evil
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Rolling Stone: Bruno Ganz, Swiss Actor Who Portrayed Hitler in ‘Downfall,’ Dead at 77
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Yahoo: Bruno Ganz, Who Played Hitler in ‘Downfall,’ Dies at 77
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IndieWire: Bruno Ganz, an Angel in ‘Wings of Desire’ and Hitler in ‘Downfall,’ Dies
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Died 2019-02-16.
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Ganz held the 200-year-old Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actor—each bequeathing the ring to the next holder, judging that actor to be the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre"
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2015· 1 entry
Won Carl Zuckmayer Medal (2015).
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2011· 1 entry
Appeared as a former Stasi operator opposite Liam Neeson in Unknown
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2010).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Bambi Award (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Portrayed Johann von Staupitz in Luther
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Cross of Merit First Class of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (2001).
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Awarded Theaterpreis Berlin (2001).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Iffland-Ring (1996).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Swiss Grand Prix for performing arts / Hans Reinhart Ring (1991).
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1987· 1 entry
Ganz first played the role of the angel Damiel in Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire
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1979· 1 entry
Starred opposite Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night)
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1977· 1 entry
Co-starred with Dennis Hopper in Wenders' American Friend, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, playing a terminally ill father who gets hired as a professional killer
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1970· 1 entry
Helped found the Berliner Schaubühne ensemble and two years later performed in the Salzburg Festival premiere of Thomas Bernhard's Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige, under the direction of Claus Peymann
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1961· 1 entry
And devoted himself mainly to the stage for almost the next two decades
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1960· 1 entry
Ganz landed his first film role, in Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (The Man in the Black Derby)
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-03-22.
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