Michael Kranz
Born
April 17, 1983 (42 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Liebfried Cantor
2025
Eyewitness
Sascha Wolf · (4 episodes)
2024
Raw Materials
Massenbach
2024
The Signal
Gregor · (4 episodes)
2024
Morin
Konrad Dramm
2023
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Simon Steckenbiller
2023
The Young Chief Winnetou
Freddy
2022
Was Tun
2022
Hannes
Florian
2021
12 Tage Sommer
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
2021
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
Alfons Urban · (6 episodes)
2020
The Master Butcher
Fidelis’ Bruder
2019
FrauMutterTier
2019
The Goldfish
2019
Onkel Wanja
Telegin
2019
Falter
Dave
2019
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Norbert Holler
2019
I love Everything I Hate About You
Kai
2018
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017
Schildkröten Panzer
Narrator (voice)
2017
Hindafing
Pfarrer Kraus · (12 episodes)
2017
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Simon
2016
Die Büffel sind los!
Landrat Häberle
2016
King Laurin
Bauer Hans
2016
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jan Hartog
2016
Siblings
Niels
2016
Heidi
Mr. Kandidat
2015
Another Kind of Light
2015
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Zugschaffner
2015
13 Minutes
Franz Xaver Lechner
2015
Der Andi ist wieder da
Michael Schäfer
2015
Bettys Diagnose
Christoph Wendrup · (1 episode)
2015
Murder by the Lake
Peter Wolfahrt · (1 episode)
2014
Hirngespinster
Guido
2014
Fräulein Else
Paul
2014
Hammer & Sichl
Polizist · (1 episode)
2013
Finsterworld
2013
The Fifth Estate
Otto
2013
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Mr. Rupprecht
2013
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Michel
2013
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Bossler
2013
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Moritz
2012
Rommel
Karl Daniel
2012
Sams im Glück
Packer 1
2012
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
German Sergeant
2012
A Family of Three
2012
War Horse
Junior German Officer
2011
Sommer der Gaukler
Alfons
2011
The Last 30 Years
Robert Ostermeier
2010
Die Hummel
Flo
2010
Nanga Parbat
Hans Saler
2010
Die Bergretter
Steffen Haflinger · (1 episode)
2009
The White Ribbon
The Tutor
2009
Inglourious Basterds
Herrman #3
2009
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Polizist Kranz
2009
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Niklas
2009
Räuber Kneißl
Gendarm Hildebrand
2008
Rita und Hans
Verkäufer
An der Grenze
München 7
Jörg · (1 episode)
2004
Kommissarin Lucas
Kai Benner · (1 episode)
2003
Scene of the Crime
Karsten · (1 episode)
1970