Maximilian Schell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-12-08
Day of Death
2014-02-01 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
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.
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Acting
(2015)
Les brigands
as Mr. Escher
(2011)
Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)
(2011)
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
(2009)
Black Flowers
as Jacob Krinsten
(2009)
(2008)
The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond Dog
(2007)
The Shell Seekers
as Lawrence Sterne
(2007)
Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
(2007)
(2006)
(2006)
Die Alpenklinik
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
(2005)
Die Liebe eines Priesters
as Father Christoph
(2004)
Coast to Coast
as Casimir
(2004)
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando Hereira
(2004)
(2003)
Alles Glück dieser Erde
as Xaver Schönborn
(2002)
My Sister Maria
as Himself
(2002)
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Karl Steingraf
(2001)
Festival in Cannes
as Viktor Kovner
(2000)
I Love You, Baby
as Walter Ekland
(2000)
Just Messing About
as Poser
(1999)
On the Wings of Love
as Hochberg
(1998)
Deep Impact
as Jason Lerner
(1998)
Vampires
as Cardinal Alba
(1998)
Left Luggage
as Mr. Silberschmidt
(1997)
Telling Lies in America
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
(1997)
The Eighteenth Angel
as Father Simeon
(1997)
Zwischen Rosen
as Carl Stern
(1996)
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
as Cardinal Vittorio
(1996)
The Vampyre Wars
as Rodan
(1994)
Little Odessa
as Arkady Shapira
(1993)
Abraham
as Pharao
(1993)
A Far Off Place
as Col. Mopani Theron
(1993)
Candles in the Dark
as Colonel Arkush
(1993)
Justice
as Isaak Kohler
(1992)
Stalin
as Vladimir Lenin
(1992)
Miss Rose White
as Mordecai Weiss
(1991)
Labyrint
as The Filmmaker
(1991)
(1990)
The Freshman
as Larry London
(1990)
You Can't Live Like That
as German Commentator
(1989)
The Rose Garden
as Aaron
(1985)
The Assisi Underground
as Col. Müller
(1985)
To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1985)
Man Under Suspicion
as Lawyer Landau
(1984)
Marlene
as Himself
(1983)
Les Îles
as Fabrice
(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)
Avalanche Express
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
(1979)
Players
as Marco
(1979)
Together?
as Giovanni
(1979)
Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Theatre Visitor
(1977)
A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
(1977)
Julia
as Johann
(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)
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)
Simon Bolivar
as Simón Bolívar
(1968)
Krakatoa, East of Java
as Captain Chris Hanson
(1968)
Heidi
as Richard Sessemann
(1968)
The Castle
as K
(1967)
The Deadly Affair
as Dieter Frey
(1967)
Counterpoint
as Gen. Schiller
(1967)
The Desperate Ones
as Marek
(1966)
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as German Narrator
(1966)
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
as Zanetto und Tonio
(1965)
Return from the Ashes
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
(1965)
Der seidene Schuh
as Don Rodrigo
(1964)
Topkapi
as Walter Harper
(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
(1961)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
as Hamlet
(1960)
(1959)
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
(1959)
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Otto Rolfe
(1959)
Die sechste Frau
as Henry Howard
(1958)
The Young Lions
as Capt. Hardenberg
(1958)
Die Bernauerin
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
(1958)
Children of the Mountains
as Josef Ospel
(1958)
(1957)
The Last Ones Shall Be First
as Lorenz Darrandt
(1957)
Taxichauffeur Bänz
as Toni Schellenberg
(1956)
The Girl from Flanders
as Alexander Haller
(1956)
Ein Herz kehrt heim
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
(1956)
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
(1955)
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
(1955)
Children, Mother, and the General
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
(1955)
Ripening Youth
as Jürgen Sengebusch
Crew
(2002)
My Sister Maria
Executive Producer, Director
(1993)
Candles in the Dark
Director
(1985)
Die Föhnforscher
Co-Producer
(1984)
Marlene
Director
(1979)
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Writer, Producer, Director
(1978)
End of the Game
Director, Writer, Producer
(1976)
The Clown
Producer
(1973)
The Pedestrian
Director, Writer, Producer
(1971)
Trotta
Screenplay
(1970)
First Love
Director, Producer, Writer
(1968)
The Castle
Writer
(1967)
Alles zum Guten
Director