Maximilian Schell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 8, 1930
- Died
- February 1, 2014 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maximilian Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Les brigands
Movie · as Mr. Escher
Jedermann Remixed
Movie · as Jedermann (archive footage)
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Movie · as Self
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Das blaue Sofa
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Brothers Bloom
Movie · as Diamond Dog
Darkness
Movie
Black Flowers
Movie · as Jacob Krinsten
Imperium der Päpste
TV · as Sprecher · 3 eps
Markus Lanz
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Shell Seekers
Movie · as Lawrence Sterne
Die Rosenkönigin
Movie · as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Movie · as Himself
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
TV · as Self · 1 ep
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Movie · as Kogi
Die Alpenklinik
Movie · as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Semperopernball
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Movie · as Father Christoph
G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Return of the Dancing Master
Movie · as Fernando Hereira
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Movie · as Self
Coast to Coast
Movie · as Casimir
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Kulturplatz
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Movie · as Xaver Schönborn
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
TV · as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
Menschen bei Maischberger
TV · as Self · 1 ep
My Sister Maria
Movie · as Himself
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Movie · as Karl Steingraf
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
TV · as Franz Steininger · 1 ep
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Festival in Cannes
Movie · as Viktor Kovner
I Love You, Baby
Movie · as Walter Ekland
Just Messing About
Movie · as Poser
On the Wings of Love
Movie · as Hochberg
Joan of Arc
TV · as Brother Jean le Maistre · 2 eps
Beckmann
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Deep Impact
Movie · as Jason Lerner
Vampires
Movie · as Cardinal Alba
Left Luggage
Movie · as Mr. Silberschmidt
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Sternstunde Kunst
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Eighteenth Angel
Movie · as Father Simeon
Telling Lies in America
Movie · as Dr. Istvan Jonas
Zwischen Rosen
Movie · as Carl Stern
The Vampyre Wars
Movie · as Rodan
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Movie · as Cardinal Vittorio
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Movie · as Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Lebens-Künstler
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Little Odessa
Movie · as Arkady Shapira
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Abraham
Movie · as Pharao
Justice
Movie · as Isaak Kohler
A Far Off Place
Movie · as Col. Mopani Theron
Candles in the Dark
Movie · as Colonel Arkush
Abraham
TV · as Pharaoh · 2 eps
Stalin
Movie · as Vladimir Lenin
Miss Rose White
Movie · as Mordecai Weiss
Riverboat
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Why Havel?
Movie
Labyrinth
Movie · as The Filmmaker
Young Catherine
TV · as Frederick the Great · 2 eps
You Can't Live Like That
Movie · as German Commentator
The Freshman
Movie · as Larry London
Romy Award
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Rose Garden
Movie · as Aaron
Wiseguy
TV · as Amado Guzman · 9 eps
Nachtcafé
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Seitenblicke
TV · as self · 1 ep
Showgeschichten
TV · as self · 1 ep
Peter the Great
TV · as Peter the Great · 4 eps
To Be Hamlet
Movie · as Self
The Assisi Underground
Movie · as Col. Müller
Man Under Suspicion
Movie · as Lawyer Landau
Marlene
Movie · as Himself
Goldene Kamera
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
Les Îles
Movie · as Fabrice
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie · as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
Bernstein/Beethoven
TV · as Self (commentary) · 11 eps
The Chosen
Movie · as Professor David Malter
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie · as Otto Frank
Heut' abend
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Avalanche Express
Movie · as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
The Black Hole
Movie · as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Movie · as Theatre Visitor
Together?
Movie · as Giovanni
Players
Movie · as Marco
Bavarian Film Awards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
NDR Talk Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cross of Iron
Movie · as Hauptmann Stransky
A Bridge Too Far
Movie · as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Julia
Movie · as Johann
St. Ives
Movie · as Dr. John Constable
Kölner Treff
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Man in the Glass Booth
Movie · as Arthur Goldman
The Day That Shook the World
Movie · as Đuro Šarac
End of the Game
Movie · as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
People's Choice Awards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Odessa File
Movie · as Eduard Roschmann
The Pedestrian
Movie · as Andreas Giese
Je später der Abend
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Pope Joan
Movie · as Adrian
Paulina 1880
Movie · as Count Michele Cantarini
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV · as Self · 1 ep
First Love
Movie · as Vater
Krakatoa, East of Java
Movie · as Captain Chris Hanson
Simón Bolívar
Movie · as Simón Bolívar
The Castle
Movie · as K
Heidi
Movie · as Richard Sessemann
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Deadly Affair
Movie · as Dieter Frey
Counterpoint
Movie · as Gen. Schiller
The Desperate Ones
Movie · as Marek
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Movie · as Zanetto und Tonio
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
Movie · as German Narrator
Return from the Ashes
Movie · as Stanislaw Pilgrin
Der seidene Schuh
TV · as Don Rodrigo · 4 eps
Topkapi
Movie · as Walter Harper
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · 1 ep
The Reluctant Saint
Movie · as Giuseppe
The Condemned of Altona
Movie · as Franz von Gerlach
Five Finger Exercise
Movie · as Walter
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie · as Hans Rolfe
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Movie · as Hamlet
The Fifth Column
Movie
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Movie · as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Die sechste Frau
Movie · as Henry Howard
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie · as Otto Rolfe
Stars in der Manege
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Young Lions
Movie · as Capt. Hardenberg
Die Bernauerin
Movie · as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Children of the Mountains
Movie · as Josef Ospel
Der Meisterdieb
Movie
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Movie · as Lorenz Darrandt
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Movie · as Toni Schellenberg
The Girl from Flanders
Movie · as Alexander Haller
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Movie · as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Movie · as Dr. Oswald Hauser
Playhouse 90
TV · as Otto Rolfe · 1 ep
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Movie · as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Children, Mother, and the General
Movie · as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
Ripening Youth
Movie · as Jürgen Sengebusch
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Rose's Father · 1 ep
German Film Award
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Bambi
TV · as Self - Laudation · 1 ep