Michael Kranz
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Scene of the Crime
Karsten
1970
Series
Bettys Diagnose
Christoph Wendrup
2015
Film
Inglourious Basterds
Herrman #3
2009
Series
Die Bergretter
Steffen Haflinger
2009
Series
Die Bergretter
Mathias Baumgartner
2009
Series
München 7
Jörg
2004
Film
War Horse
Junior German Officer
2011
Series
Murder by the Lake
Peter Wolfahrt
2014
Series
Kommissarin Lucas
Kai Benner
2003
Film
Heidi
Mr. Kandidat
2015
Film
The Fifth Estate
Otto
2013
Series
The Signal
Gregor
2024
Series
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
Alfons Urban
2020
Film
The White Ribbon
The Tutor
2009
Series
Hammer & Sichl
Polizist
2013
Series
Hindafing
Pfarrer Kraus
2017
Series
Die Augenzeugen
Sascha Wolf
2024
Film
13 Minutes
Franz Xaver Lechner
2015
Film
Rommel
Karl Daniel
2012
Film
The Young Chief Winnetou
Freddy
2022
Film
Nanga Parbat
Hans Saler
2010
Film
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Patrick Wams
2026
Film
Räuber Kneißl
Gendarm Hildebrand
2008
Film
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jan Hartog
2016
Film
The Goldfish
Kursleiter
2019
Film
Fräulein Else
Paul
2014
Film
Local Heroes
Lazlo
2013
Film
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Moritz
2012
Film
Siblings
Niels
2016
Film
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Liebfried Cantor
2025
Film
Time We Lost
Lutz Schmauser
2025
Film
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017
Film
The Master Butcher
Fidelis’ Bruder
2019
Film
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Zugschaffner
2015
Film
The Last 30 Years
Robert Ostermeier
2010
Film
Hannes
Florian
2021
Film
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Norbert Holler
2019
Film
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Simon Steckenbiller
2023
Film
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Mr. Rupprecht
2013
Film
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Polizist Kranz
2009
Film
Sams im Glück
Packer 1
2012
Film
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Simon
2016
Film
Die Büffel sind los!
Landrat Häberle
2016
Film
Raw Materials
Massenbach
2024
Film
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Bossler
2013
Film
I love Everything I Hate About You
Kai
2018
Film
Finsterworld
2013
Film
A Family of Three
2012
Film
12 Tage Sommer
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
2021
Der Andi ist wieder da
Michael Schäfer
2015
Film
King Laurin
Bauer Hans
2016
Film
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Michel
2013
Film
FrauMutterTier
Hannes
2019
Film
Sommer der Gaukler
Alfons
2011
Film
Die Hummel
Flo
2010
Film
Hirngespinster
Guido
2014
Film
Another Kind of Light
2015
Film
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
German Sergeant
2012
Film
Falter
Dave
2019
Film
Onkel Wanja
Telegin
2019
Film
Morin
Konrad Dramm
2023
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Niklas
2009
Film
Schildkröten Panzer
Narrator (voice)
2017
Film
Was Tun
2022