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.
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.
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1928284
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Filmography (Movies)
Time We Lost
Character:Verkäufer
Release Date:06/11/2025
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Character:Liebfried Cantor
Release Date:18/09/2025
Raw Materials
Character:Massenbach
Release Date:26/09/2024
Morin
Character:Konrad Dramm
Release Date:22/11/2023
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Character:Simon Steckenbiller
Release Date:10/08/2023
The Young Chief Winnetou
Character:Freddy
Release Date:11/08/2022
Was Tun
Character:
Release Date:03/03/2022
Hannes
Character:Florian
Release Date:25/11/2021
12 Tage Sommer
Character:Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Release Date:10/11/2021
The Master Butcher
Character:Fidelis’ Bruder
Release Date:27/12/2019
FrauMutterTier
Character:
Release Date:21/03/2019
The Goldfish
Character:
Release Date:28/02/2019
Onkel Wanja
Character:Telegin
Release Date:25/02/2019
Falter
Character:Dave
Release Date:16/01/2019
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Character:Norbert Holler
Release Date:08/01/2019
I love Everything I Hate About You
Character:Kai
Release Date:01/06/2018
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Character:
Release Date:26/11/2017
Schildkröten Panzer
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:30/10/2017
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Character:Simon
Release Date:28/11/2016
Die Büffel sind los!
Character:Landrat Häberle
Release Date:21/10/2016
King Laurin
Character:Bauer Hans
Release Date:01/09/2016
The Diary of Anne Frank
Character:Jan Hartog
Release Date:03/03/2016
Siblings
Character:Niels
Release Date:01/03/2016
Heidi
Character:Mr. Kandidat
Release Date:10/12/2015
Another Kind of Light
Character:
Release Date:04/12/2015
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Character:Zugschaffner
Release Date:14/10/2015
13 Minutes
Character:Franz Xaver Lechner
Release Date:09/04/2015
Der Andi ist wieder da
Character:Michael Schäfer
Release Date:18/03/2015
Hirngespinster
Character:Guido
Release Date:09/10/2014
Fräulein Else
Character:Paul
Release Date:22/05/2014
Finsterworld
Character:
Release Date:17/10/2013
The Fifth Estate
Character:Otto
Release Date:11/10/2013
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Character:Mr. Rupprecht
Release Date:09/10/2013
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Character:Michel
Release Date:23/05/2013
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Character:Bossler
Release Date:30/01/2013
Local Heroes
Character:Lazlo
Release Date:02/01/2013
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Character:Moritz
Release Date:29/11/2012
Rommel
Character:Karl Daniel
Release Date:01/11/2012
Sams im Glück
Character:Packer 1
Release Date:27/03/2012
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
Character:German Sergeant
Release Date:09/02/2012
A Family of Three
Character:
Release Date:10/01/2012
War Horse
Character:Junior German Officer
Release Date:25/12/2011
Sommer der Gaukler
Character:Alfons
Release Date:22/12/2011
The Last 30 Years
Character:Robert Ostermeier
Release Date:16/07/2010
Die Hummel
Character:Flo
Release Date:27/06/2010
Nanga Parbat
Character:Hans Saler
Release Date:14/01/2010
The White Ribbon
Character:The Tutor
Release Date:24/09/2009
Inglourious Basterds
Character:Herrman #3
Release Date:02/08/2009
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Character:Polizist Kranz
Release Date:04/07/2009
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Character:Niklas
Release Date:01/01/2009
Räuber Kneißl
Character:Gendarm Hildebrand
Release Date:21/08/2008
Television Appearances
Die Augenzeugen
Character:Sascha Wolf
The Signal
Character:Gregor
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
Character:Alfons Urban
Hindafing
Character:Pfarrer Kraus
Bettys Diagnose
Character:Christoph Wendrup
Murder by the Lake
Character:Peter Wolfahrt
Hammer & Sichl
Character:Polizist
Die Bergretter
Character:Steffen Haflinger
München 7
Character:Jörg
Kommissarin Lucas
Character:Kai Benner
Scene of the Crime
Character:Karsten
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