Rainer Bock
Acting
Biography
After 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.
Born: July 31, 1954
Place of Birth: Kiel, Germany
Known For
Better Call Saul
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
Silent Friend
On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in marked contrast to three intimate, human-scaled stories. In 1908, the university’s first female student gains admission into the prestigious botany department, confronting the sexism of both professors and peers. In 1972, amidst counterculture movements, a reserved student finds his attention captured by a fellow housemate and the geranium plant she studies. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong secures the help of a renowned botanist for an experiment on the old ginkgo tree.
Karla
Twelve-year-old Karla testifies in court. She makes serious accusations against her own father, who should have guaranteed her safety. Judge Lamy supports her in this difficult trial and becomes her most important confidant.
Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Der König von Köln
A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few super rich. They want to make quite a lot of profit from a planned large-scale building project. Quicker than anticipated, the father-to-be gets surprised by a couple of amenities and notices that life isn’t too bad in the sphere of these semi-legal affairs. Soon, however, he has a prosecuting attorney on his tails and has to decide himself for a side.
Dengler
Georg Dengler is a private investigator after his unpleasant departure from the BKA. His missions, which are often very politically explosive, take him to all areas of Germany and also to other European countries. His experience and connections from his time at the BKA benefit him, and he now mostly works with the people he previously had to hunt down. The series is a film adaptation of the Dengler novels by Wolfgang Schorlau and has been broadcast on ZDF since 2015. A characteristic feature of Schorlau's works is the criticism of social and political conditions; the films in the series are often based on true events, but the specific plot is fictitious.
Wilsberg
Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his friends, especially because of the car.
Never Look Away
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Ein Sommer in Sommerby
Die verschwundene Familie
Four years after the murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl, fate strikes Nordholm again. A dead man is found on the beach & his wife and daughter have disappeared without a trace. Only the youngest son of the family suddenly turns up at home. Simon Kessler of the Hamburg CID starts the investigation.
Filmography
as Richter Lamy
as Christian Boysen
as Adam Mertz
as HC
as Richter
as Narrator
as Jakob Sesam
as Clemens Stellbrink
as Clemens Stellbrink
as Wilfried Schneider
as Jon Hoffmann
as Gabriele Totti
as Ernst Schwarzer
as Hans
as Erik Bell
as Sönke Feddersen (1965 - 1984)
as Muhr
as Peter Cerny
as Hans Thieme
as Berthold Roosen
as Dr. Rudi Lutz
as Klaus Bronstein
as Bernhard
as Urs
as Markus
as Willi Stehauf
as Theodor Meynert
as Johannes Christensen
as Henri Johnen
as Josef Asch
as Paul
as Shukshin
as Staatsanwalt Dr. Reimers
as Bruno
as Johannes Christensen
as Walter Scholl
as Heinrich Gluck
as Burghart Kroll
as Dr. Sebastian Hofer
as Behringer
as Rolf Buschhaus
as Kardinal della Rovere
as Hermann Blok
as Trainer
as Von Hindenberg
as Robert Pfennig
as Fritz Kellermann
as James Bancroft
as Rainer Weiss
as Zeuge Lauterbach
as Herr Seifert
as Dr. Wüst
as Claus Rohmüller
as Attorney General Hasse
as Staatsanwalt Mack
as Erik
as Detektiv Kirschenbaum
as Self
as BKA Dr. Müller
as Oscar Tietz
as Alois Schwahl
as Wagner
as Johannes Christensen
as Werner Ziegler
as Robert Leonhardt
as Peter Arndt
as Graf von Langmaak
as Graf von Langmaak
as Bismarck
as Helmut Hoffmann
as Dieter Mohr
as Abdias
as Hartmann Dietz
as Wolfgang
as SS Officer
as Kurt Posel
as Bürgermeister Hermann
as Quirin Kaiserley
as Inspector Bach
as Mayor Engleman
as Hugo
as Karl Falkner
as Herr Kaminer
as Bruno Merk
as Klaus Schütz
as Brandt
as BND Officer Keller
as Prof. Albert Brückner
as Dr. Dreier
as Verteidiger
as Herr Strauss
as SS-Hauptsturmführer Rauter
as Mr. Reinhard
as Psychiater
as Nico
as The Doctor
as General Schonherr
as Neidhard Moll
as Richard Peters
as Reinhold
as Self
as Ulrich Kretschmar
as Georg Wagenbach
as Arbogast
as General der Infanterie Friedrich Olbricht
as Olaf Holtzmann
as Wolfram Truss
as Rolf Hartung
as Makowski
as Self
as Self
as Müntemeyer
as Malte Schnaak
as Kommissar Schnaak
as Self
as Prof. Dr. Werner Schmedtmann
as Self
as PvD Conrad Cassdorf
as Kapitän Helmut Reinders
as Werner Krabonk
as Augenthaler
as Jost Friedland
as Bauer's Father