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
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
as Hans Rolfe
Vampires (1998)
as Cardinal Alba
The Young Lions (1958)
as Capt. Hardenberg
The Black Hole (1979)
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Cross of Iron (1977)
as Hauptmann Stransky
The Freshman (1990)
as Larry London
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
as Diamond Dog
Julia (1977)
as Johann
The Odessa File (1974)
as Eduard Roschmann
Little Odessa (1994)
as Arkady Shapira
St. Ives (1976)
as Dr. John Constable
The Deadly Affair (1967)
as Dieter Frey
Topkapi (1964)
as Walter Harper
The Chosen (1981)
as Professor David Malter
A Far Off Place (1993)
as Col. Mopani Theron
Avalanche Express (1979)
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Abraham (1993)
as Pharao
Stalin (1992)
as Vladimir Lenin
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
as Captain Chris Hanson
The Shell Seekers (2007)
as Lawrence Sterne
Telling Lies in America (1997)
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
To Be Hamlet (1985)
as Self
Black Flowers (2009)
as Jacob Krinsten
Left Luggage (1998)
as Mr. Silberschmidt
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996)
as Cardinal Vittorio
Pope Joan (1972)
as Adrian
Together? (1979)
as Giovanni
Heidi (1968)
as Richard Sessemann
The Eighteenth Angel (1997)
as Father Simeon
First Love (1970)
as Vater
Counterpoint (1967)
as Gen. Schiller
Festival in Cannes (2001)
as Viktor Kovner
Coast to Coast (2004)
as Casimir
The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
as Otto Frank
Simón Bolívar (1969)
as Simón Bolívar
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955)
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
The Pedestrian (1973)
as Andreas Giese
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
as Giuseppe
The Assisi Underground (1985)
as Col. Müller
Marlene (1984)
as Himself
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1966)
as German Narrator
Why Havel? (1991)
Actor
The Phantom of the Opera (1983)
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
as Arthur Goldman
Return from the Ashes (1965)
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
The Condemned of Altona (1962)
as Franz von Gerlach
The Desperate Ones (1967)
as Marek
The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
as Fernando Hereira
House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
as Kogi
Miss Rose White (1992)
as Mordecai Weiss
The Rose Garden (1989)
as Aaron
Darkness (2009)
Actor
End of the Game (1978)
as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
Die Rosenkönigin (2007)
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Paulina 1880 (1972)
as Count Michele Cantarini
I Love You, Baby (2000)
as Walter Ekland
Children, Mother, and the General (1955)
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
Players (1979)
as Marco
The Day That Shook the World (1975)
as Đuro Šarac
Les Îles (1983)
as Fabrice
Justice (1993)
as Isaak Kohler
Candles in the Dark (1993)
as Colonel Arkush
Just Messing About (2000)
as Poser
Children of the Mountains (1958)
as Josef Ospel
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956)
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
as Theatre Visitor
My Sister Maria (2002)
as Himself
You Can't Live Like That (1990)
as German Commentator
Labyrinth (1991)
as The Filmmaker
Judgment at Nuremberg (1959)
as Otto Rolfe
The Girl from Flanders (1956)
as Alexander Haller
Jedermann Remixed (2011)
as Jedermann (archive footage)
Les brigands (2015)
as Mr. Escher
The Vampyre Wars (1996)
as Rodan
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1961)
as Hamlet
The Fifth Column (1960)
Actor
Der seidene Schuh (1965)
as Don Rodrigo
The Castle (1968)
as K
Taxichauffeur Bänz (1957)
as Toni Schellenberg
Zwischen Rosen (1997)
as Carl Stern
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch (2002)
as Karl Steingraf
The Last Ones Shall Be First (1957)
as Lorenz Darrandt
Der Meisterdieb (1958)
Actor
Five Finger Exercise (1962)
as Walter
Man Under Suspicion (1984)
as Lawyer Landau
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste (1959)
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Die Bernauerin (1958)
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music (1996)
as Self
Die Liebe eines Priesters (2005)
as Father Christoph
On the Wings of Love (1999)
as Hochberg
Ein Herz kehrt heim (1956)
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Die sechste Frau (1959)
as Henry Howard
Alles Glück dieser Erde (2003)
as Xaver Schönborn
Ripening Youth (1955)
as Jürgen Sengebusch
Die Alpenklinik (2006)
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell (2004)
as Self
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki (2007)
as Himself
Die venezianischen Zwillinge (1966)
as Zanetto und Tonio
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell (2010)
as Self