Maximilian Schell
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Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor. Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by performance and literature. While he was still a child, his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled in Zürich. After World War II ended, Schell took up acting and directing full-time. Schell won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a lawyer in the legal drama Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). He was Oscar-nominated for playing a character with multiple identities in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) and for playing a man resisting Nazism in Julia (1977). Fluent in both English and German, Schell earned top billing in a number of Nazi-era themed films. He acted in films such as Topkapi (1964), The Deadly Affair (1967), Counterpoint (1968), Simón Bolívar (1969), The Odessa File (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Deep Impact (1998). On television, he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the NBC film Miss Rose White and the HBO television film Stalin (1992), the later of which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He also portrayed Otto Frank in the TV film The Diary of Anne Frank (1980), the Russian emperor Peter the Great in the NBC series Peter the Great (1986), Frederick the Great in the British series Young Catherine (1991), and Brother Jean le Maistre in the miniseries Joan of Arc (1999). Schell also performed in a number of stage plays, including a celebrated performance as Prince Hamlet. Schell was an accomplished pianist and conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His elder sister was the internationally noted actress Maria Schell; he produced the documentary tribute My Sister Maria in 2002. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maximilian Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Deep Impact (1998)
as Jason Lerner
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Vampires (1998)
as Cardinal Alba
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
as Hans Rolfe
The Black Hole (1979)
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Little Odessa (1994)
as Arkady Shapira
Cross of Iron (1977)
as Hauptmann Stransky
The Freshman (1990)
as Larry London
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
as Diamond Dog
The Odessa File (1974)
as Eduard Roschmann
The Young Lions (1958)
as Capt. Hardenberg
Julia (1977)
as Johann
Abraham (1993)
as Pharao
A Far Off Place (1993)
as Col. Mopani Theron
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
as Captain Chris Hanson
Telling Lies in America (1997)
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
Counterpoint (1967)
as Gen. Schiller
First Love (1970)
as Vater
St. Ives (1976)
as Dr. John Constable
Heidi (1968)
as Richard Sessemann
Topkapi (1964)
as Walter Harper
The Deadly Affair (1967)
as Dieter Frey
Alles Glück dieser Erde (2003)
as Xaver Schönborn
Avalanche Express (1979)
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Paulina 1880 (1972)
as Count Michele Cantarini
Coast to Coast (2004)
as Casimir
Stalin (1992)
as Vladimir Lenin
The Shell Seekers (2007)
as Lawrence Sterne
The Eighteenth Angel (1997)
as Father Simeon
The Chosen (1981)
as Professor David Malter
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
as Arthur Goldman
The Assisi Underground (1985)
as Col. Müller
To Be Hamlet (1985)
as Self
The Condemned of Altona (1962)
as Franz von Gerlach
Pope Joan (1972)
as Adrian
The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
as Otto Frank
Left Luggage (1998)
as Mr. Silberschmidt
End of the Game (1975)
as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
Black Flowers (2009)
as Jacob Krinsten
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996)
as Cardinal Vittorio
The Day That Shook the World (1975)
as Đuro Šarac
Just Messing About (2000)
as Poser
Return from the Ashes (1965)
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
The Phantom of the Opera (1983)
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
Der Meisterdieb (1958)
Actor
House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
as Kogi
The Rose Garden (1989)
as Aaron
Judgment at Nuremberg (1959)
as Otto Rolfe
The Vampyre Wars (1996)
as Rodan
Festival in Cannes (2001)
as Viktor Kovner
Miss Rose White (1992)
as Mordecai Weiss
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955)
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
The Pedestrian (1973)
as Andreas Giese
The Desperate Ones (1967)
as Marek
Zwischen Rosen (1997)
as Carl Stern
Together? (1979)
as Giovanni
Children, Mother, and the General (1955)
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
Darkness (2009)
Actor
The Fifth Column (1960)
Actor
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1966)
as German Narrator
Jedermann Remixed (2011)
as Jedermann (archive footage)
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
as Giuseppe
Die Liebe eines Priesters (2005)
as Father Christoph
Candles in the Dark (1993)
as Colonel Arkush
Justice (1993)
as Isaak Kohler
The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
as Fernando Hereira
Simón Bolívar (1969)
as Simón Bolívar
Marlene (1984)
as Himself
I Love You, Baby (2000)
as Walter Ekland
Die Rosenkönigin (2007)
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Five Finger Exercise (1962)
as Walter
Les brigands (2015)
as Mr. Escher
Die venezianischen Zwillinge (1966)
as Zanetto und Tonio
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956)
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
Players (1979)
as Marco
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell (2004)
as Self
My Sister Maria (2002)
as Himself
Ripening Youth (1955)
as Jürgen Sengebusch
Why Havel? (1991)
Actor
The Girl from Flanders (1956)
as Alexander Haller
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1961)
as Hamlet
On the Wings of Love (1999)
as Hochberg
Les Îles (1983)
as Fabrice
Labyrinth (1991)
as The Filmmaker
Man Under Suspicion (1984)
as Lawyer Landau
The Castle (1968)
as K
Die sechste Frau (1959)
as Henry Howard
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch (2002)
as Karl Steingraf
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste (1959)
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
as Theatre Visitor
Taxichauffeur Bänz (1957)
as Toni Schellenberg
Die Bernauerin (1958)
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
The Last Ones Shall Be First (1957)
as Lorenz Darrandt
Children of the Mountains (1958)
as Josef Ospel
You Can't Live Like That (1990)
as German Commentator
Ein Herz kehrt heim (1956)
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music (1996)
as Self
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki (2007)
as Himself
Die Alpenklinik (2006)
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell (2010)
as Self