In 1992, he was cast in the American/Canadian television series, Highlander in which he played the priest, Darius, friend and mentor to Duncan MacLeod. Darius, a former warlord, and the recipient of the only recorded Light Quickening, was played with great humanity by Stocker. Creative Consultant David Abramovitz said, "Darius, originally...was written as almost to look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, to be physically ugly... with a glorious soul. ...they cast this young, handsome German actor named Werner Stocker..... And it seemed that the Germans, who were putting up a great deal of money, didn't want the only German actor in the show to be ugly; so he wasn't ugly. And this was one of the cases where politics won out and it didn't hurt anything because he was wonderful in the part..