
Maximilian Schell
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
Credits
- 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 · Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell as Self
- 2010 · Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski as Self
- 2009 · Black Flowers as Jacob Krinsten
- 2009 · Darkness as
- 2008 · The Brothers Bloom as Diamond Dog
- 2008 · Markus Lanz as Self
- 2008 · Imperium der Päpste as Sprecher
- 2007 · The Shell Seekers as Lawrence Sterne
- 2007 · Die Rosenkönigin as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
- 2007 · Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki as Himself
- 2007 · Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz as Self
- 2006 · House of the Sleeping Beauties as Kogi
- 2006 · Die Alpenklinik as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
- 2006 · Semperopernball as Self
- 2005 · Die Liebe eines Priesters as Father Christoph
- 2005 · G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten as Self
- 2004 · Servus, Hansi Hinterseer as Self
- 2004 · In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell as Self
- 2004 · Kulturplatz as Self
- 2004 · The Return of the Dancing Master as Fernando Hereira
- 2004 · Coast to Coast as Casimir
- 2003 · Alles Glück dieser Erde as Xaver Schönborn
- 2003 · Der Fürst und das Mädchen as
- 2003 · Der Fürst und das Mädchen as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
- 2003 · Menschen bei Maischberger as Self
- 2002 · Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch as Karl Steingraf
- 2002 · Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- 2002 · My Sister Maria as Himself
- 2002 · Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften as Franz Steininger
- 2001 · Festival in Cannes as Viktor Kovner
- 2000 · I Love You, Baby as Walter Ekland
- 1999 · Joan of Arc as Brother Jean le Maistre
- 1999 · On the Wings of Love as Hochberg
- 1999 · Beckmann as Self
- 1998 · Vampires as Cardinal Alba
- 1998 · Deep Impact as Jason Lerner
- 1998 · Left Luggage as Mr. Silberschmidt
- 1998 · The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
- 1997 · Telling Lies in America as Dr. Istvan Jonas
- 1997 · Zwischen Rosen as Carl Stern
- 1997 · The Eighteenth Angel as Father Simeon
- 1996 · The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years as Cardinal Vittorio
- 1996 · The Vampyre Wars as Rodan
- 1995 · Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- 1995 · Lebens-Künstler as Self
- 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
- 1994 · alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio as Self
- 1994 · Little Odessa as Arkady Shapira
- 1994 · Abraham as Pharaoh
- 1993 · Abraham as Pharao
- 1993 · Candles in the Dark as Colonel Arkush
- 1993 · Justice as Isaak Kohler
- 1993 · A Far Off Place as Col. Mopani Theron
- 1992 · Stalin as Vladimir Lenin
- 1992 · Miss Rose White as Mordecai Weiss
- 1992 · Riverboat as Self
- 1991 · Labyrint as The Filmmaker
- 1991 · Why Havel? as
- 1991 · Young Catherine as Frederick the Great
- 1990 · You Can't Live Like That as German Commentator
- 1990 · The Freshman as Larry London
- 1990 · Romy Award as Self
- 1989 · The Rose Garden as Aaron
- 1987 · Seitenblicke as self
- 1987 · Wiseguy as Amado Guzman
- 1987 · Nachtcafé as Self
- 1986 · Show Stories as self
- 1986 · Peter the Great as Peter the Great
- 1985 · The Assisi Underground as Col. Müller
- 1985 · Man Under Suspicion as Lawyer Landau
- 1985 · To Be Hamlet as Self
- 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
- 1980 · Tonight as Self
- 1979 · The Black Hole as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
- 1979 · Together? as Giovanni
- 1979 · Bavarian Film Award as Self
- 1979 · Avalanche Express as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
- 1979 · Players as Marco
- 1979 · NDR Talk Show as Self
- 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
- 1976 · Kölner Treff as Self
- 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
- 1973 · Je später der Abend as Self
- 1972 · Pope Joan as Adrian
- 1972 · Paulina 1880 as Count Michele Cantarini
- 1971 · V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- 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 Three Musketeers as
- 1968 · The Castle as K
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · Counterpoint as Gen. Schiller
- 1967 · The Deadly Affair as Dieter Frey
- 1967 · The Desperate Ones as Marek
- 1966 · Die venezianischen Zwillinge as Zanetto und Tonio
- 1966 · John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums as German Narrator
- 1966 · Golden Camera Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1965 · Return from the Ashes as Stanislaw Pilgrin
- 1965 · Der seidene Schuh as Don Rodrigo
- 1964 · Topkapi as Walter Harper
- 1963 · Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as
- 1962 · The Reluctant Saint as Giuseppe
- 1962 · The Condemned of Altona as Franz von Gerlach
- 1962 · Five Finger Exercise as Walter
- 1961 · Hamlet, Prince of Denmark as Hamlet
- 1961 · Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe
- 1960 · The Fifth Column as
- 1959 · Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
- 1959 · Judgment at Nuremberg as Otto Rolfe
- 1959 · Stars in the Ring as Self
- 1959 · Die sechste Frau as Henry Howard
- 1958 · Die Bernauerin as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
- 1958 · Children of the Mountains as Josef Ospel
- 1958 · Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as
- 1958 · The Young Lions as Capt. Hardenberg
- 1958 · Der Meisterdieb as
- 1957 · The Last Ones Shall Be First as Lorenz Darrandt
- 1957 · Taxichauffeur Bänz as Toni Schellenberg
- 1956 · Ein Herz kehrt heim as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
- 1956 · Playhouse 90 as Otto Rolfe
- 1956 · Die Ehe des Dr. med. 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 · Children, Mother, and the General as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Rose's Father
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self
- 1948 · BAMBI Awards as Self - Laudation
- 1948 · BAMBI Awards as Self