Maximilian Schell
Known for Acting · 150 credits
- Born
- 1930-12-08
- Died
- 2014-02-01
- Place of birth
- Vienna, Austria
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (49)
Markus Lanz
2008
as Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Kölner Treff
1976
as Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Riverboat
1992
as Self
Bambi
1948
as Self - Laudation
Beckmann
1999
as Self
Nachtcafé
1987
as Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
as Self
Wiseguy
1987
as Amado Guzman
The Oscars
1953
as Self
People's Choice Awards
1975
as Self
Playhouse 90
1956
as Otto Rolfe
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self - Presenter
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
as Self
Kulturzeit
1995
as self
German Film Award
1951
as Self
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
as Self
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
Heut' abend
1980
as Self
Romy Award
1990
as Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
Stars in the Ring
1959
as Self
Seitenblicke
1987
as self
Showgeschichten
1986
as self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Rose's Father
Joan of Arc
1999
as Brother Jean le Maistre
Semperopernball
2006
as Self
Peter the Great
1986
as Peter the Great
Je später der Abend
1973
as Self
Lebens-Künstler
1995
as Self
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
Abraham
1994
as Pharaoh
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
2010
as Self
Young Catherine
1991
as Frederick the Great
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
2004
as Self
The Three Musketeers
1968
Sternstunde Kunst
1998
as Self
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
2007
as Self
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002
as Franz Steininger
Der seidene Schuh
1965
as Don Rodrigo
Imperium der Päpste
2008
as Sprecher
Bernstein/Beethoven
1982
as Self (commentary)
Movies (101)
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
Little Odessa
1994
as Arkady Shapira
Cross of Iron
1977
as Hauptmann Stransky
The Freshman
1990
as Larry London
A Far Off Place
1993
as Col. Mopani Theron
The Brothers Bloom
2008
as Diamond Dog
Julia
1977
as Johann
Pope Joan
1972
as Adrian
The Black Hole
1979
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Counterpoint
1967
as Gen. Schiller
The Young Lions
1958
as Capt. Hardenberg
Topkapi
1964
as Walter Harper
Abraham
1993
as Pharao
The Odessa File
1974
as Eduard Roschmann
St. Ives
1976
as Dr. John Constable
Krakatoa, East of Java
1969
as Captain Chris Hanson
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
as Cardinal Vittorio
Telling Lies in America
1997
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
The Chosen
1981
as Professor David Malter
The Deadly Affair
1967
as Dieter Frey
The Day That Shook the World
1975
as Đuro Šarac
Black Flowers
2009
as Jacob Krinsten
Stalin
1992
as Vladimir Lenin
Avalanche Express
1979
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Heidi
1968
as Richard Sessemann
Festival in Cannes
2001
as Viktor Kovner
The Condemned of Altona
1962
as Franz von Gerlach
End of the Game
1978
as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
Return from the Ashes
1965
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
Coast to Coast
2004
as Casimir
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
as Fernando Hereira
Simón Bolívar
1969
as Simón Bolívar
Players
1979
as Marco
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
as Otto Frank
The Man in the Glass Booth
1975
as Arthur Goldman
The Shell Seekers
2007
as Lawrence Sterne
Left Luggage
1998
as Mr. Silberschmidt
The Desperate Ones
1967
as Marek
The Reluctant Saint
1962
as Giuseppe
Paulina 1880
1972
as Count Michele Cantarini
Justice
1993
as Isaak Kohler
The Phantom of the Opera
1983
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006
as Kogi
The Assisi Underground
1985
as Col. Müller
The Castle
1968
as K
The Eighteenth Angel
1997
as Father Simeon
Children, Mother, and the General
1955
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
The Fifth Column
1960
I Love You, Baby
2000
as Walter Ekland
To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
Les Îles
1983
as Fabrice
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
as Theatre Visitor
Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005
as Father Christoph
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961
as Hamlet
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002
as Karl Steingraf
The Rose Garden
1989
as Aaron
The Girl from Flanders
1956
as Alexander Haller
Les brigands
2015
as Mr. Escher
Candles in the Dark
1993
as Colonel Arkush
Die Bernauerin
1958
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007
as Himself
The Pedestrian
1973
as Andreas Giese
Die Rosenkönigin
2007
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966
as Zanetto und Tonio
Jedermann Remixed
2011
as Jedermann (archive footage)
Marlene
1984
as Himself
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959
as Otto Rolfe
Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957
as Toni Schellenberg
On the Wings of Love
1999
as Hochberg
Die Alpenklinik
2006
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
Darkness
2009
Labyrinth
1991
as The Filmmaker
Miss Rose White
1992
as Mordecai Weiss
Together?
1979
as Giovanni
First Love
1970
as Vater
Just Messing About
2000
as Poser
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
The Vampyre Wars
1996
as Rodan
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Zwischen Rosen
1997
as Carl Stern
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004
as Self
You Can't Live Like That
1990
as German Commentator
Man Under Suspicion
1984
as Lawyer Landau
Why Havel?
1991
Der seidene Schuh
1965
as Don Rodrigo
Ripening Youth
1955
as Jürgen Sengebusch
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966
as German Narrator
Five Finger Exercise
1962
as Walter
Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003
as Xaver Schönborn
Der Meisterdieb
1958
Die sechste Frau
1959
as Henry Howard
The Last Ones Shall Be First
1957
as Lorenz Darrandt
Children of the Mountains
1958
as Josef Ospel
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996
as Self
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010
as Self
My Sister Maria
2002
as Himself
About Maximilian Schell
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 cha… With 150 credits spanning from 1948 to 2015, Maximilian Schell has appeared in 101 films and 49 TV shows.
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Most Popular Maximilian Schell Movies
- 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
- Little Odessa (1994) — as Arkady Shapira
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