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Maximilian Schell
Actor, Writer, Director, Producer
Born December 8, 1930Died February 1, 2014 (83 years)
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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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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Filmography
| 2018 | Making Montgomery Clift · as Hans Rolfe |
| 2017 | Jedermann liebt Karli Spiehs · as Cast |
| 2015 | Les brigands · as Mr. Escher |
| 2009 | Flores negras · as Jacob Krinsten |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | The Brothers Bloom · as Diamond Dog |
| 2008 | Imperium der Päpste (TV Series) · as Sprecher |
| 2007 | Die Rosenkönigin · as Karl Friedrich Weidemann |
| 2006 | The Shell Seekers · as Lawrence Sterne |
| 2006 | House of the Sleeping Beauties · as Kogi |
| 2006 | Die Alpenklinik · as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf |
| 2005 | Die Liebe eines Priesters · as Father Christoph |
| 2005 | Das Bibelrätsel (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2004 | The Hard Cops · as Fernando Hereira |
| 2004 | |
| 2003 | Coast to Coast · as Casimir |
| 2003 | Alles Glück dieser Erde · as Xaver Schönborn |
| 2003 | Der Fürst und das Mädchen (TV Series) · as Friedrich Fürst Von Thorwald |
| 2002 | Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch · as Karl Steingraf |
| 2002 | Love, Lies, Passions (TV Series) · as Franz Steininger |
| 2001 | Festival in Cannes · as Viktor Kovner |
| 2001 | The Song of the Lark · as Wunsch |
| 2000 | I Love You, Baby · as Walter Ekland |
| 1999 | Joan of Arc (TV Series) · as Brother Jean Le Maistre |
| 1999 | On the Wings of Love · as Hochberg |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | Deep Impact · as Jason Lerner |
| 1998 | Vampires · as Cardinal Alba |
| 1998 | Left Luggage · as Mr. Silberschmidt |
| 1997 | The Eighteenth Angel · as Father Simeon |
| 1997 | Telling Lies in America · as Dr. Istvan Jonas |
| 1997 | Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years · as Capt. Hardenberg |
| 1996 | Sex and the Silver Screen (TV Series) · as Quote Reader |
| 1996 | The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years · as Cardinal Vittorio |
| 1994 | Little Odessa · as Arkady Shapira |
| 1993 | Abraham · as Pharao |
| 1993 | Abraham (TV Series) · as Pharao |
| 1993 | Candles in the Dark · as Colonel Arkush |
| 1993 | Justiz · as Isaak Kohler |
| 1993 | A Far Off Place · as Col. Mopani Theron |
| 1992 | Stalin · as Vladimir Lenin |
| 1992 | Miss Rose White · as Mordecai Weiss |
| 1991 | Labyrinth · as The Filmmaker |
| 1991 | Young Catherine (TV Series) · as Frederick The Great |
| 1991 | Young Catherine · as Frederick The Great |
| 1991 | |
| 1990 | You Can't Live Like That · as German Commentator |
| 1990 | The Freshman · as Larry London |
| 1989 | The Rose Garden · as Aaron |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | Biography (TV Series) · as Hans Rolfe |
| 1986 | Peter the Great (TV Series) · as Peter The Great |
| 1985 | The Assisi Underground · as Col. Müller |
| 1984 | Morgen in Alabama · as Lawyer Landau |
| 1983 | The Phantom of the Opera · as Sandor Korvin/phantom |
| 1981 | The Chosen · as Professor David Malter |
| 1980 | The Diary of Anne Frank · as Otto Frank |
| 1979 | The Black Hole · as Dr. Hans Reinhardt |
| 1979 | Together? · as Giovanni |
| 1979 | Avalanche Express · as Colonel Nikolai Bunin |
| 1979 | Players · as Marco |
| 1979 | Tales from the Vienna Woods · as Theatre Visitor |
| 1977 | Julia · as Johann |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far · as General Der Waffen-Ss Wilhelm Bittrich |
| 1977 | Cross of Iron · as Hauptmann Stransky |
| 1976 | St. Ives · as Dr. John Constable |
| 1975 | The Day That Shook the World · as Đuro Šarac |
| 1975 | End of the Game · as Robert Schmied On Audiotape |
| 1975 | The Man in the Glass Booth · as Arthur Goldman |
| 1974 | The Odessa File · as Eduard Roschmann |
| 1973 | The Pedestrian · as Andreas Giese |
| 1972 | Pope Joan · as Adrian |
| 1972 | Paulina 1880 · as Count Michele Cantarini |
| 1970 | First Love · as Vater |
| 1969 | Simón Bolívar · as Simón Bolívar |
| 1968 | Krakatoa: East of Java · as Captain Chris Hanson |
| 1968 | Heidi · as Richard Sessemann |
| 1968 | The Three Musketeers (1968) (TV Series) |
| 1968 | The Castle · as K |
| 1967 | Counterpoint · as Gen. Schiller |
| 1967 | The Deadly Affair · as Dieter Frey |
| 1967 | Beyond the Mountains · as Marek |
| 1965 | Return from the Ashes · as Stanislaw Pilgrin |
| 1965 | The Silk Shoe (TV Series) · as Don Rodrigo |
| 1965 | John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums · as German Narrator |
| 1964 | Topkapi · as Walter Harper |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1962 | The Reluctant Saint · as Giuseppe |
| 1962 | The Condemned of Altona · as Franz Von Gerlach |
| 1962 | Five Finger Exercise · as Walter |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg · as Hans Rolfe |
| 1960 | Hamlet · as Hamlet |
| 1960 | |
| 1959 | Sunday Showcase (TV Series) · as Peter Gerard |
| 1958 | Kinder der Berge · as Josef Ospel |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1958 | The Young Lions · as Capt. Hardenberg |
| 1957 | Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) · as Sarrail |
| 1957 | Goodyear Theatre (TV Series) · as Sarrail |
| 1957 | The Last Ones Shall Be First · as Lorenz Darrandt |
| 1957 | Taxi Driver Baenz · as Toni Schellenberg |
| 1956 | Ein Herz kehrt heim · as Wolfgang Thomas, Beider Sohn |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Otto Rolfe |
| 1956 | Marriage of Dr. Danwitz · as Dr. Oswald Hauser |
| 1956 | The Girl from Flanders · as Alexander Haller |
| 1955 | Ripening Youth · as Jürgen Sengebusch |
| 1955 | The Plot to Assassinate Hitler · as Mitglied Des Kreisauer Kreises |
| 1955 | Sons, Mothers and a General · as Soldat, Der Nicht Mehr Mitmacht |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Rose's Father |