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Siegfried Rauch 19322018
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Siegfried Rauch (2 April 1932 – 11 March 2018) was a German film and television actor. His career spanned over 60 years, he appeared in several international film productions in the 1970s and had leading roles in numerous German television productions. • Born in Landsberg am Lech, Upper Bavaria, Germany, he studied drama at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Additionally, he attended private drama lessons. Since 1958, he has performed at different theatres, beginning with Bremen (until 1962), and followed by Berlin, Munich and Hamburg. In the 1970s, Rauch appeared in the 1970 Hollywood film Patton as Captain Steiger. In Le Mans (1971), Rauch played the race driver Erich Stahler who is Steve McQueen's rival. In Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One, Rauch played a German army sergeant, the counterpart of Lee Marvin's character, who experiences the same events as Marvin only from a German perspective. Other Hollywood productions in which Rauch appeared were The Eagle Has Landed (1976) and Escape to Athena (1979). His most famous leading act on German 1970s television was Thomas Lieven in Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein (It Can't Always Be Caviar), based on the spy fiction novel by Johannes Mario Simmel. His various other roles on television established his career as an actor in Germany. Since 1997, Rauch has continuously appeared in Das Traumschiff, one of the most-watched television series in Germany; from 1999 to 2013 he played the captain. In this rôle he was preceded by Heinz Weiss and is succeeded by Sascha Hehn starting with the 2014-screening. He also appeared regularly in other German TV productions, including since 2008 Der Bergdoktor, and remained active until his death. • Rauch passed away on 11 March 2018 from injuries suffered when falling down stairs at a fire station near his home in Obersöchering near Munich, Germany. He was 85. • Music for this video: • Androids Always Escape by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) • Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/honor/ • Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/
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