- He began his professional career in Germany in 1909 where he played numerous roles at smaller theaters. Furing an engagement in Berlin he joined the film business where he first was engaged as a director assistant for the Duskes film company.
- With the rise of the sound film era in the 30s he continued his career as a screenwriter - often for documentaries - but as a director he only was able to shoot the documentary "Opfer der Vergangenheit" (37) on behalf of the National Socialists.
- He got into financial difficulties and he had to make an oath of disclosure.
- The director and screen writer Genot Bock-Schieber widen his acting abilities by the great actor Josef Kainz. Beside it he joined an education as a graphic artist, photographer and cinematographer.
- He was able to assert himself as a movie director from 1919 and in the 20s he realized several movies with the figure "Mac Wood", impersonated by Alexander von Antalffy.
- To many of his movies he also wrote the screenplay - often together with his wife the screen writer Ada van Roon.
- From the late 1920s Bock-Stieber was unable to land any more mainstream directing contracts. He then concentrated on producing screenplays and, since the advent of sound films, was almost exclusively given the opportunity to direct Nazi propaganda films. Films for the Nazi regime were Einer von Vielen ("One of Many", 1936), Tante Inges Garten ("Aunt Inge's Garden", 1937), and Für jeden etwas ("Something for Everyone", 1937).
- Bock-Stieber attended the conservatory in Vienna after graduating from high school and trained as an actor. He also attended the graphics teaching and research institute. Even before the outbreak of the First World War, Bock-Stieber had completed training as a photographer and movie camera operator.
- His early works included several episodes of the Mac Wood series, centered around the character of Mac Wood, a smart, adventurous detective and jack of all trades. The screenplay for his productions was regularly written by Ada van Roon, Bock-Stieber's wife since 1917.
- He was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker.
- Based in Germany since 1909, he played mainly in theaters in cities in the Rhine region including Cologne, Bonn and Düsseldorf, and finally went to Berlin, where he appeared as an actor at the Luisen Theater and was hired by the film production company Duskes Film as an assistant director.
- In March 1920 he founded Europa-Film-Co. GmbH together with Georg Paul Aderholdt. He later named the company Epro-Film (abbreviation for Europe Production).
- In the last years of his life, Bock-Stieber was in constant trouble with the authorities.
- He served in the First World War from 1915 to 1918, and was sporadically active during that period as a screenwriter and journalist.
- In 1940 there were proceedings for expulsion from the film department of the Reich Film Chamber for alleged film financing contacts with Jews.
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