Werner Stocker was born on 7 April 1955 in Flintsbach am Inn, Germany and studied acting at the Munich Acting School and the noted Otto Falckenberg School. After receiving the German Movie Award as Best Younger Actor in 1983, he starred in several critically acclaimed TV movies and feature films such as Herbstmilch (1989). Internationally, he appeared in Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) and the TV show Highlander (1992), but soon after that shooting, he died from a brain tumor at the age of 38.