Michael Kranz

Michael Kranz Movies and TV Shows

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.

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 4/17/1983 (41 years old)
  • Place of birth: Ravensburg, Germany
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
2024

Drama

Mystery

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.0
66%
Rehragout-Rendezvous
IMDB 6.4
TMDB 66%
role:
Simon Steckenbiller
2023

Comedy

Crime

6.4
66%
2020

Drama

6.8
70%
2019

Comedy

6.6
64%
Hindafing
IMDB 7.7
TMDB 67%
role:
Pfarrer Kraus
2017

Comedy

Drama

7.7
67%
2016

Drama

6.8
74%
Heidi
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 71%
role:
Mr. Kardidat
2015

Adventure

Family

7.4
71%
13 Minutes
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 69%
role:
Franz Xaver Lechner
2015

Drama

History

7.0
69%
2013

Drama

Thriller

6.2
60%
Rommel
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 62%
role:
Karl Daniel
2012

Action

Drama

History

War & Politics

6.6
62%
War Horse
IMDB 7.2
TMDB 73%
role:
Junior German Officer
2011

Action

Drama

War & Politics

7.2
73%
Nanga Parbat
IMDB 6.5
TMDB 67%
role:
Hans Saler
2010

Adventure

Drama

6.5
67%
The White Ribbon
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 75%
role:
The Tutor
2009

Drama

Mystery

7.8
75%
2009

Action

Drama

Thriller

War & Politics

8.4
82%

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Michael Kranz are, for example, The Signal, Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood and Heidi.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Amazon, iTunes and Google Play.
The best StreamFat ratings are Inglourious Basterds (8.3), The White Ribbon (7.7) and War Horse (7.3).