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