“Actor Bruno Ganz, whose long career and signature roles as an angel in the film Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall made him one of the most recognized actors of German-language cinema, died on Friday. He was 77.
“Ganz played more than 100 film roles starting when he was 19, as well as dozens more on stage.
“Ganz, who was Swiss, won a number of film awards over his decades-long career. He was also honored with Germany’s Order of Merit and made a knight of the French Légion d’honneur — the highest awards for civilian merit in those countries.
“Ganz was so convincing portraying an angel in 1987’s Wings of Desire that for years afterward, strangers would treat him as an angel in real life.”
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