Actor

Michael Kranz

April 17, 1983 · 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.

Notable work

8.2
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
as Herrman #3
7.3
War Horse (2011)
as Junior German Officer
7.5
The White Ribbon (2009)
as The Tutor
6
The Fifth Estate (2013)
as Otto
7.3
Heidi (2015)
as Mr. Kandidat
6.8
13 Minutes (2015)
as Franz Xaver Lechner

Often works with

Katharina Schüttler
3 titles together
Heidi, 13 Minutes, The Signal
Daniel Brühl
2 titles together
Inglourious Basterds, The Fifth Estate
Sylvester Groth
2 titles together
Inglourious Basterds, The Master Butcher
David Thewlis
2 titles together
War Horse, The Fifth Estate
Benedict Cumberbatch
2 titles together
War Horse, The Fifth Estate
Leonard Carow
2 titles together
War Horse, The Diary of Anne Frank

Full filmography · 59

Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
as Patrick Wams
2026
Time We Lost
as Lutz Schmauser
2025
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
as Liebfried Cantor
2025
Raw Materials
as Massenbach
2024
Morin
as Konrad Dramm
2023
Rehragout-Rendezvous
as Simon Steckenbiller
20236.7
The Young Chief Winnetou
as Freddy
2022
Hannes
as Florian
2021
12 Tage Sommer
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
2021
The Master Butcher
as Fidelis’ Bruder
2019
FrauMutterTier
as Hannes
2019
The Goldfish
as Kursleiter
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