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