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Joe Rabl is an producer, actor, director, writer, and stuntactor from Graz, Austria.

He moved to the United States to continue his acting studies attending schools in Los Angeles (Harry Mastrogeorge, Stella Adler) & New York (Lee Strasberg Institute)

Starting in TV on 'The Visitor' & 'Brooklyn South', he then appeared in short films 'Ice Cream Sundae' with Tippi Hedren (written and directed by Désirée Nosbusch, music by Harald Kloser) & 'A.W.O.L.' with David Morse & John McGinley (written by Shane Black) and then made his feature debut in 'Godzilla' (TriStar Pictures, Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin) followed by 'Breakdown' with Kurt Russell. (Paramount Pictures, Dino de Laurentiis, Jonathan Mostow)

Back in Europe he has continued to perform in both Hollywood productions: 'U-571' (Universal) & 'Spectre' (Eon) & independent films: 'Snakebite' & 'Schilf' and he has gained wide-spread recognition in the German-speaking world becoming a well-known face both in TV series' and as a commercial model at home and abroad. He has appeared in photo campaigns, TV and print commercials and magazines for clients and networks in Germany & Austria: 3Austria, EnBW, Sixt Germany, DEKRA, Bang & Olufsen, Mercure Hotels Germany, Best Western, Sixt, EnBW, Siemens and Mercedes Benz, Raiffeisen Bank Austria and Porsche, Württemberger Wine, Pro7, Sat1, Arte, ARD and ORF.

He has created his production company 'Pelican Pictures' to work on his own projects and also to foster international collaboration with other creative talent. He is developing his own feature projects: 'Solar Storm', 'In The Shadow Of The Red Salamander" & 'Merka 'and Kolo.

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