Siegfried Rauch

Siegfried Rauch (2 April 1932 – 11 March 2018) was a German movie and television actor.
In the 1970s, Rauch appeared in the 1970 Hollywood movie "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.
Rauch died on 11 March 2018 from heart failure caused by injuries he suffered when falling down stairs at a fire station near his home in Obersöchering near Munich; he was 85.