Maximilian Schell
Acting
Born: December 8, 1930 · Vienna, Austria
Died: February 1, 2014 (aged 83)
Highest Rated
Biography
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
Deep Impact
1998
Vampires
1998
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
A Bridge Too Far
1977
The Brothers Bloom
2008
The Black Hole
1979
Cross of Iron
1977
The Freshman
1990
Little Odessa
1994
Topkapi
1964
The Odessa File
1974
Julia
1977
Photos (3)
Movies (85)
Deep Impact
Jason Lerner
Vampires
Cardinal Alba
A Bridge Too Far
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Judgment at Nuremberg
Hans Rolfe
The Black Hole
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Little Odessa
Arkady Shapira
Cross of Iron
Hauptmann Stransky
The Brothers Bloom
Diamond Dog
The Freshman
Larry London
The Odessa File
Eduard Roschmann
Julia
Johann
The Young Lions
Capt. Hardenberg
The Man in the Glass Booth
Arthur Goldman
Abraham
Pharao
First Love
Vater
Counterpoint
Gen. Schiller
Return from the Ashes
Stanislaw Pilgrin
A Far Off Place
Col. Mopani Theron
St. Ives
Dr. John Constable
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
Heidi
Richard Sessemann
Telling Lies in America
Dr. Istvan Jonas
Krakatoa, East of Java
Captain Chris Hanson
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Xaver Schönborn
Topkapi
Walter Harper
Avalanche Express
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
The Deadly Affair
Dieter Frey
Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
The Chosen
Professor David Malter
Paulina 1880
Count Michele Cantarini
Pope Joan
Adrian
End of the Game
Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
The Shell Seekers
Lawrence Sterne
Black Flowers
Jacob Krinsten
Just Messing About
Poser
The Eighteenth Angel
Father Simeon
The Assisi Underground
Col. Müller
Coast to Coast
Casimir
The Day That Shook the World
Đuro Šarac
The Condemned of Altona
Franz von Gerlach
Left Luggage
Mr. Silberschmidt
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Cardinal Vittorio
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
The Rose Garden
Aaron
The Phantom of the Opera
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
Miss Rose White
Mordecai Weiss
The Desperate Ones
Marek
Festival in Cannes
Viktor Kovner
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Father Christoph
Children of the Mountains
Josef Ospel
The Reluctant Saint
Giuseppe
The Vampyre Wars
Rodan
Darkness
2009
Together?
Giovanni
Children, Mother, and the General
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
The Fifth Column
1960
The Pedestrian
Andreas Giese
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Die Rosenkönigin
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Judgment at Nuremberg
Otto Rolfe
Les Îles
Fabrice
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Kogi
Jedermann Remixed
Jedermann (archive footage)
Five Finger Exercise
Walter
The Girl from Flanders
Alexander Haller
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Hamlet
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Karl Steingraf
Les brigands
Mr. Escher
Justice
Isaak Kohler
I Love You, Baby
Walter Ekland
Why Havel?
1991
On the Wings of Love
Hochberg
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
German Narrator
The Castle
K
You Can't Live Like That
German Commentator
Labyrinth
The Filmmaker
Players
Marco
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Theatre Visitor
The Return of the Dancing Master
Fernando Hereira
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Dr. Oswald Hauser
Candles in the Dark
Colonel Arkush
Man Under Suspicion
Lawyer Landau
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Toni Schellenberg
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Lorenz Darrandt
Die Alpenklinik
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
TV Shows (14)
Wiseguy
Amado Guzman · 9 eps
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1 eps
Playhouse 90
Otto Rolfe · 1 eps
Joan of Arc
Brother Jean le Maistre · 2 eps
Peter the Great
Peter the Great · 4 eps
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald · 40 eps
Abraham
Pharaoh · 2 eps
Abraham
Pharao · 2 eps
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Franz Steininger · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rose's Father · 1 eps
Young Catherine
Frederick the Great · 2 eps
Der seidene Schuh
Don Rodrigo · 4 eps
Imperium der Päpste
Sprecher · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (23)
Markus Lanz
Self · 1 eps
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self · 2 eps
Kölner Treff
Self · 2 eps
NDR Talk Show
Self · 1 eps
Nachtcafé
Self · 1 eps
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 4 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Riverboat
Self · 1 eps
Beckmann
Self · 3 eps
Bambi
Self - Laudation · 1 eps
Bambi
Self · 2 eps
People's Choice Awards
Self · 1 eps
Kulturplatz
Self · 1 eps
Heut' abend
Self · 1 eps
Stars in der Manege
Self · 1 eps
Bernstein/Beethoven
Self (commentary) · 11 eps
To Be Hamlet
Self
Marlene
Himself
My Sister Maria
Himself
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Self
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Self
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Himself
