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