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
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Avalanche Express
Walter Ekland
I Love You, Baby
Hans Rolfe
Judgment at Nuremberg
Self
To Be Hamlet
Pharao
Abraham
Hauptmann Stransky
Cross of Iron
Fabrice
Les Îles
Walter Harper
Topkapi
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
A Bridge Too Far
Eduard Roschmann
The Odessa File
Diamond Dog
The Brothers Bloom
Jason Lerner
Deep Impact
Lawrence Sterne
The Shell Seekers
Professor David Malter
The Chosen
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
The Black Hole
Cardinal Alba
Vampires
Father Simeon
The Eighteenth Angel
Capt. Hardenberg
The Young Lions
Johann
Julia
Andreas Giese
Der Fußgänger
Dieter Frey
The Deadly Affair
Dr. John Constable
St. Ives
Arthur Goldman
The Man in the Glass Booth
Captain Chris Hanson
Krakatoa, East of Java
Hochberg
Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel...
Mr. Silberschmidt
Left Luggage
Stanislaw Pilgrin
Return from the Ashes
Otto Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank
Vladimir Lenin
Stalin
T.M.A.
Viktor Kovner
Festival in Cannes
Giuseppe
The Reluctant Saint
Kogi
Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Die Rosenkönigin
The Fifth Column
Fernando Hereira
Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers
Theatre Visitor
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald
Franz von Gerlach
I sequestrati di Altona
Gen. Schiller
Counterpoint
Giovanni
Amo non amo
Himself
Meine Schwester Maria
K
Das Schloß
Lawyer Landau
Morgen in Alabama
Isaak Kohler
Justiz
Vater
Erste Liebe
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
Proč Havel?
Marco
Players
Col. Müller
The Assisi Underground
Walter
Five Finger Exercise
Aaron
The Rose Garden
Father Christoph
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Karl Steingraf
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Der 20. Juli
Mordecai Weiss
Miss Rose White
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
Kinder, Mütter und ein General
Lorenz Darrandt
Die Letzten werden die Ersten sein
Richard Sessemann
Heidi
Alexander Haller
Ein Mädchen aus Flandern
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Rodan
The Vampyre Wars
Jacob Krinsten
Flores Negras
Hamlet
Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark
Mr. Escher
Les brigands
Đuro Šarac
Sarajevski atentat
Don Rodrigo
Der seidene Schuh
Dr. Oswald Hauser
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Die Bernauerin
Zanetto und Tonio
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Dr. Istvan Jonas
Telling Lies in America
Josef Ospel
Kinder der Berge
Jürgen Sengebusch
Reifende Jugend
Xaver Schönborn
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Col. Mopani Theron
A Far Off Place
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Die Alpenklinik
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
The Phantom of the Opera
Self (archive footage)
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
Colonel Arkush
Candles in the Dark
German Narrator
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
German Commentator
Так жить нельзя
The Filmmaker
Labyrint
Toni Schellenberg
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Adrian
Pope Joan
Arkady Shapira
Little Odessa
Himself
Marlene
Larry London
The Freshman
Carl Stern
Zwischen Rosen
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Henry Howard
Die sechste Frau
Cardinal Vittorio
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Marek
The Desperate Ones
Der Meisterdieb
Jedermann (archive footage)
Jedermann Remixed
Himself
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Self
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Count Michele Cantarini
Paulina 1880
Self
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Casimir
Coast to Coast
Otto Rolfe
Judgment at Nuremberg
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
99
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-12-08
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Also Known As
Максимилиан Шелл