Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Adolf Hitler in the 2004 film Downfall, has died aged 77.
Ganz was diagnosed with colon cancer last year and died at his home in Zurich on Friday, his management confirmed.
"One of the most important actors of our times goes, his brilliant work remains. We mourn with the family and friends of Bruno Ganz," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a tweet.
The actor was a key figure in German-language film and television for over 50 years.
Ganz worked with director Wim Wenders on such films as The American Friend, Wings of Desire and Faraway, So Close!.
He also starred in Éric Rohmer's The Marquise of O, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre, Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth and Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex.
His English-language films included The Reader, The Manchurian Candidate and The Boys from Brazil. One of his final films was opposite Irish actor Cillian Murphy in Sally Potter's black comedy The Party.
But Ganz was best-known around the world for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated, German-language film Downfall (Der Untergang).
Downfall generated various internet memes from a memorable scene in the Fuhrer's bunker where he starts shouting at generals when he finally understands the war is lost.
More recently, he played Heidi's grandfather in a 2015 Swiss film about the national heroine, seeing it as a kind of patriotic duty.
"Good thing that Switzerland is associated with Heidi rather than banks, cheese or chocolate," he told Hamburger Abendblatt.
Married once, Ganz was separated from his wife with whom he had a son.
