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