Biography

Inimitable Bavarian comic character actor (also producer, writer and director), in films from 1913 after a brief spell on the stage. He was immensely popular in regional bucolic comedies and Heimatfilms with alpine scenery. His stock-in-trade was the crafty, indomitable Bavarian farmer or villager elder, invariably taking the mickey out of northerners (especially Prussians), or city slickers, with a requisite amount of guile and sarcasm.

During wartime he only took part in few movies, among others in "Das sündige Dorf" (1940), "Der Hochtourist" (1942) and "Die keusche Sünderin" (1943).

He began an education at the Hoftheater in Munich, it followed engagements in Bayreuth and Landshut. They soon saw the comical talent and Joe Stöckel often impersonated amusing characters on stage and in operettas.

He started his film career in 1916 when he acted in first movies for the Ostermayr Brothers. After first successes Joe Stöckel founded his own production company and realised among others a whole string of movies which contained the figure Joe Marcco, both as a director and an actor.

Joe Stöckel experienced the height of his career after the war. His native movies in which he impersonated comical nature-men heightened his popularity.