Maximilian Schell
Acting
🎂 1930-12-08
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.
Cast credits(148)
Self
1999
Self - Guest
1968
Self
1995
Self - Laudation
1948
Self
1948
Self
1994
Self
1987
Self
2008
Self
1951
Self
1980
Self
2003
Self
1998
Self
2002
self
1995
Amado Guzman
1987
1958
1968
self
1987
1963
Self
1976
Self
1979
Self
1953
Self
1959
Self
1990
Otto Rolfe
1956
Self
2005
Self
1979
Rose's Father
1951
Brother Jean le Maistre
1999
2003
Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
2003
Self
1992
Self
2004
Self - Presenter
1984
self
1986
Self
2007
Self
2004
Frederick the Great
1991
Sprecher
2008
Jason Lerner
1998
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
1977
Self
1995
Self
1971
Self
1973
Hans Rolfe
1961
Franz Steininger
2002
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
1979
Cardinal Alba
1998
Hauptmann Stransky
1977
Self
2010
Arkady Shapira
1994
Arthur Goldman
1975
Diamond Dog
2008
Peter the Great
1986
Self
2006
Eduard Roschmann
1974
Johann
1977
Pharao
1993
Capt. Hardenberg
1958
Larry London
1990
Walter Harper
1964
Dieter Frey
1967
Captain Chris Hanson
1968
Professor David Malter
1981
Dr. Istvan Jonas
1997
Pharaoh
1994
Pharao
1994
Viktor Kovner
2001
Vladimir Lenin
1992
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
1979
Dr. John Constable
1976
Cardinal Vittorio
1996
Gen. Schiller
1967
Richard Sessemann
1968
Col. Mopani Theron
1993
Casimir
2004
Stanislaw Pilgrin
1965
Simón Bolívar
1969
Mr. Silberschmidt
1998
Đuro Šarac
1975
Col. Müller
1985
Giuseppe
1962
German Narrator
1966
Adrian
1972
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
1983
Isaak Kohler
1993
Vater
1970
Marco
1979
Otto Frank
1980
Lawrence Sterne
2007
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
1955
Lorenz Darrandt
1957
Father Simeon
1997
Franz von Gerlach
1962
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
2007
Jacob Krinsten
2009
Hamlet
1961
Father Christoph
2005
Aaron
1989
Mr. Escher
2015
K
1968
Karl Steingraf
2002
Self
1985
Kogi
2006
Mordecai Weiss
1992
Himself
1984
Theatre Visitor
1979
Toni Schellenberg
1957
1960
Himself
2002
Otto Rolfe
1959
Colonel Arkush
1993
Walter
1962
The Filmmaker
1991
Poser
2000
Count Michele Cantarini
1972
Alexander Haller
1956
Marek
1967
2009
Fabrice
1983
Rodan
1996
Josef Ospel
1958
Giovanni
1979
Andreas Giese
1973
Self
2004
Don Rodrigo
1965
Self (archive footage)
2011
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
1956
Carl Stern
1997
Zanetto und Tonio
1966
German Commentator
1990
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
1955
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2006
Lawyer Landau
1985
Walter Ekland
2000
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
1958
Fernando Hereira
2004
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
1959
Jürgen Sengebusch
1955
Xaver Schönborn
2003
Jedermann (archive footage)
2011
Dr. Oswald Hauser
1956
Himself
2007
1991
Hochberg
1999
Henry Howard
1959
Self
2010
1958
