Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 08, 1930
Died
Feb 01, 2014
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Credits
153 titles
Maximilian Schell
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
Filmography
Les brigands
Mr. Escher
Jedermann Remixed
Jedermann (archive footage)
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Self
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
Self
Black Flowers
Jacob Krinsten
Darkness
The Brothers Bloom
Diamond Dog
Markus Lanz
Self
Imperium der Päpste
Sprecher
The Shell Seekers
Lawrence Sterne
Die Rosenkönigin
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Himself
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
Self
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Kogi
Die Alpenklinik
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Semperopernball
Self
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Father Christoph
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
Self
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
Self
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Self
Kulturplatz
Self
The Return of the Dancing Master
Fernando Hereira
Coast to Coast
Casimir
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Xaver Schönborn
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
Menschen bei Maischberger
Self
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Karl Steingraf
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
My Sister Maria
Himself
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Franz Steininger
Festival in Cannes
Viktor Kovner
I Love You, Baby
Walter Ekland
Just Messing About
Poser
Joan of Arc
Brother Jean le Maistre
On the Wings of Love
Hochberg
Beckmann
Self
Sternstunde Kunst
Self
Vampires
Cardinal Alba
Deep Impact
Jason Lerner
Left Luggage
Mr. Silberschmidt
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self
Telling Lies in America
Dr. Istvan Jonas
Zwischen Rosen
Carl Stern
The Eighteenth Angel
Father Simeon
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Cardinal Vittorio
The Vampyre Wars
Rodan
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Lebens-Künstler
Self
Kulturzeit
self