Cast & creator
Michael Kranz
Best known for Scene of the Crime, Bettys Diagnose, Inglourious Basterds
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.
59
film credits
12
television credits
64
1970–2026 · acting roles
6.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (71)
Showing 71 of 71 credits
Scene of the Crime
Karsten
1970
Bettys Diagnose
Christoph Wendrup
2015
Inglourious Basterds
Herrman #3
2009
Die Bergretter
Steffen Haflinger
2009Die Bergretter
Mathias Baumgartner
2009
München 7
Jörg
2004
War Horse
Junior German Officer
2011
Murder by the Lake
Peter Wolfahrt
2014
Kommissarin Lucas
Kai Benner
2003
Heidi
Mr. Kandidat
2015
The Fifth Estate
Otto
2013
The Signal
Gregor
2024
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
Alfons Urban
2020
The White Ribbon
The Tutor
2009
Hammer & Sichl
Polizist
2013
Hindafing
Pfarrer Kraus
2017
Die Augenzeugen
Sascha Wolf
2024
13 Minutes
Franz Xaver Lechner
2015
Rommel
Karl Daniel
2012
The Young Chief Winnetou
Freddy
2022
Nanga Parbat
Hans Saler
2010
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Patrick Wams
2026
Räuber Kneißl
Gendarm Hildebrand
2008
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jan Hartog
2016
The Goldfish
Kursleiter
2019
Fräulein Else
Paul
2014
Local Heroes
Lazlo
2013
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Moritz
2012
Siblings
Niels
2016
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Liebfried Cantor
2025
Time We Lost
Lutz Schmauser
2025
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017
The Master Butcher
Fidelis’ Bruder
2019
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Zugschaffner
2015
The Last 30 Years
Robert Ostermeier
2010
Hannes
Florian
2021
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Norbert Holler
2019
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Simon Steckenbiller
2023
Pink Palace, Paradise Beach
Sound Mixer
1990
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Mr. Rupprecht
2013
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Polizist Kranz
2009
Sams im Glück
Packer 1
2012
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Simon
2016
Die Büffel sind los!
Landrat Häberle
2016
Raw Materials
Massenbach
2024
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Bossler
2013
I love Everything I Hate About You
Kai
2018
Finsterworld
2013
A Family of Three
2012
12 Tage Sommer
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
2021Der Andi ist wieder da
Michael Schäfer
2015
King Laurin
Bauer Hans
2016
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Michel
2013
MyBorder's JOYFence
Script
2018MyBorder's JOYFence
Director
2018
FrauMutterTier
Hannes
2019
Sommer der Gaukler
Alfons
2011
Die Hummel
Flo
2010
Hirngespinster
Guido
2014
Another Kind of Light
2015
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
German Sergeant
2012
Falter
Dave
2019
Onkel Wanja
Telegin
2019
Morin
Konrad Dramm
2023Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Niklas
2009
Schildkröten Panzer
Narrator (voice)
2017
Was Tun
2022Was Tun
Writer
2022Was Tun
Camera Operator
2022Was Tun
Producer
2022Was Tun
Director
2022