part-funded the bass's musical training. Rudolf Schock continued making concert appearances into his sixties. Aged 71, he died suddenly of a heart attack in Gürzenich a district of the town of Düren where he had made his home. Selected filmography , as Richard Tauber The Happy Wanderer (1955), as Axel Wendt Ten on Every Finger (1954) as Himself The Csardas King (1958), as Janos Gräfin Mariza (1958), as Michael The House of Three Girls (1958), as Franz von Schober As himself Not Without Gisela (1951) Big Request Concert (1960) References External links Rudolf Schock Website History of the Tenor / Rudolf Schock / Sound Clips and Narration 1915 births 1986 deaths People from Duisburg People from the Rhine Province German operatic tenors Österreichischer Kammersänger 20th-century German male opera singers German Army personnel of World War II Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany