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