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Actor Bruno Ganz, best known for fearless performance as Adolf Hitler, dead at 77

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Feb 16, 2019 05:16 PM IST

Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Adolf Hitler in the 2004 film Downfall, has died at 77.

Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor who gave a masterful performance as Adolf Hitler in Downfall, has died aged 77, his agent said Saturday.

Ganz, who died at his home in Zurich, had a distinguished career on screen and stage before his 2004 appearance in Downfall, which unfolds over the final, suffocating days inside Hitler's bunker.

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For many critics his nuanced portrayal of the fascist tyrant that veers between explosive and sombre was unparallelled.

Hitler is a figure that German-speaking actors had historically been reluctant to take on and the Zurich-born Ganz conceded that being Swiss provided a necessary buffer.

"It helped me also that I am not German, because I could put my passport between Hitler and me," Ganz told The Arts Desk website in 2005. He was most recently seen in Lars von Trier’s The House that Jack Built.

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