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Rainer Bock
Known for: ActingAfter graduating from high school, Rainer Bock ran a café in his hometown, which also had a cabaret programme. After studying acting at a private acting school in Kiel, he made his debut as a theater actor on the stages of the state capital of Kiel in 1982. He came to Heidelberg and the National Theater Mannheim via the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater. From 1995 to 2001 he had an engagement at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Until 2011 he was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Bock often appears in supporting roles, including his initially rare appearances in film and television. The part of the doctor in Michael Haneke's award-winning drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009) earned him a nomination for the German Film Prize. In 2011 he was represented at the Berlinale with four films. Bock is also active as an audio book speaker.
Filmography 34
Das Boot
as Heinrich Gluck 
The Book Thief
as Mayor Hermann 
War Horse
as Brandt 
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
as Mayor Engleman 
Unknown
as Herr Strauss 
A Most Wanted Man
as Dieter Mohr 
Passion
as Inspector Bach 
Silent Friend
as Prof. Winterhalter 
The Calendar Killer
as HC 
Line of Separation
as Robert Leonhardt 
SS-GB
as Fritz Kellermann 
The Collini Case
as Staatsanwalt Dr. Reimers 
The White Ribbon
as The Doctor 
Freud
as Theodor Meynert 
The Turncoat
as Willi Stehauf 
Run Boy Run
as SS-Officer 
The Seed
as Jon Hoffmann 
Oktoberfest 1905
as Adam Mertz 
Barbara
as Klaus Schütz 
Dengler
as BKA Dr. Müller 
Luna's Revenge
as Behringer 
Divided We Stand
as Hans Thieme 
The Most Beautiful Day
as Dr. Wüst 
Das Mädchen am Strand
as Johannes Christensen 
The Guardians
as Karl Falkner 
Two Lives
as Hugo 
A Year Ago in Winter
as Richard Peters 
Naked Among Wolves
as Alois Schwahl 
Godless Youth
as Trainer 
Operation Valkyrie
as General der Infanterie Friedrich Olbricht 
My Best Enemy
as SS-Hauptsturmführer Rauter 
Open the Wall
as Peter Arndt 
The Verdict
as Zeuge Lauterbach 
München '72 - Das Attentat
as Bruno Merk