Maximilian Schell
Born
December 8, 1930
Died
February 1, 2014 (83 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
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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Les brigands
Mr. Escher
2015
Jedermann Remixed
Jedermann (archive footage)
2011
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
Self (archive footage)
2011
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Self
2010
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
Self · (1 episode)
2010
Black Flowers
Jacob Krinsten
2009
Darkness
2009
The Brothers Bloom
Diamond Dog
2008
Markus Lanz
Self · (1 episode)
2008
Imperium der Päpste
Sprecher · (3 episodes)
2008
The Shell Seekers
Lawrence Sterne
2007
Die Rosenkönigin
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
2007
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Himself
2007
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
Self · (1 episode)
2007
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Kogi
2006
Die Alpenklinik
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2006
Semperopernball
Self · (1 episode)
2006
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Father Christoph
2005
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
Self · (1 episode)
2005
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
Self · (1 episode)
2004
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Self
2004
Kulturplatz
Self · (1 episode)
2004
The Return of the Dancing Master
Fernando Hereira
2004
Coast to Coast
Casimir
2004
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Xaver Schönborn
2003
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
(0 episode)
2003
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald · (40 episodes)
2003
Menschen bei Maischberger
Self · (1 episode)
2003
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Karl Steingraf
2002
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self · (1 episode)
2002
My Sister Maria
Himself
2002
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Franz Steininger · (1 episode)
2002
Festival in Cannes
Viktor Kovner
2001
I Love You, Baby
Walter Ekland
2000
Just Messing About
Poser
2000
Joan of Arc
Brother Jean le Maistre · (2 episodes)
1999
On the Wings of Love
Hochberg
1999
Beckmann
Self · (3 episodes)
1999
Vampires
Cardinal Alba
1998
Deep Impact
Jason Lerner
1998
Left Luggage
Mr. Silberschmidt
1998
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self · (3 episodes)
1998
Telling Lies in America
Dr. Istvan Jonas
1997
Zwischen Rosen
Carl Stern
1997
The Eighteenth Angel
Father Simeon
1997
The Vampyre Wars
Rodan
1996
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Cardinal Vittorio
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self · (2 episodes)
1995
Lebens-Künstler
Self · (1 episode)
1995
Kulturzeit
self · (1 episode)
1995
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Self · (1 episode)
1994
Little Odessa
Arkady Shapira
1994
Abraham
Pharaoh · (2 episodes)
1994
Abraham
Pharao · (2 episodes)
1994
Abraham
Pharao
1993
Candles in the Dark
Colonel Arkush
1993
Justice
Isaak Kohler
1993
A Far Off Place
Col. Mopani Theron
1993
Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
1992
Miss Rose White
Mordecai Weiss
1992
Riverboat
Self · (1 episode)
1992
Labyrint
The Filmmaker
1991
Why Havel?
1991
Young Catherine
Frederick the Great · (2 episodes)
1991
You Can't Live Like That
German Commentator
1990
The Freshman
Larry London
1990
Romy Award
Self · (1 episode)
1990
The Rose Garden
Aaron
1989
Seitenblicke
self · (1 episode)
1987
Wiseguy
Amado Guzman · (9 episodes)
1987
Nachtcafé
Self · (1 episode)
1987
Showgeschichten
self · (1 episode)
1986
Peter the Great
Peter the Great · (4 episodes)
1986
The Assisi Underground
Col. Müller
1985
Man Under Suspicion
Lawyer Landau
1985
To Be Hamlet
Self
1985
Marlene
Himself
1984
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
1984
Les Îles
Fabrice
1983
The Phantom of the Opera
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
1983
The Chosen
Professor David Malter
1981
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
1980
Heut' abend
Self · (1 episode)
1980
The Black Hole
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
1979
Together?
Giovanni
1979
Bayerischer Filmpreis
Self · (1 episode)
1979
Avalanche Express
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
1979
Players
Marco
1979
NDR Talk Show
Self · (1 episode)
1979
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Theatre Visitor
1979
Julia
Johann
1977
A Bridge Too Far
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
1977
Cross of Iron
Hauptmann Stransky
1977
St. Ives
Dr. John Constable
1976
Kölner Treff
Self · (2 episodes)
1976
The Day That Shook the World
Đuro Šarac
1975
The Man in the Glass Booth
Arthur Goldman
1975
The Odessa File
Eduard Roschmann
1974
The Pedestrian
Andreas Giese
1973
Je später der Abend
Self · (1 episode)
1973
Pope Joan
Adrian
1972
Paulina 1880
Count Michele Cantarini
1972
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self · (1 episode)
1971
First Love
Vater
1970
Simon Bolivar
Simón Bolívar
1969
Krakatoa, East of Java
Captain Chris Hanson
1968
Heidi
Richard Sessemann
1968
The Three Musketeers
(19 episodes)
1968
The Castle
K
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1968
Counterpoint
Gen. Schiller
1967
The Deadly Affair
Dieter Frey
1967
The Desperate Ones
Marek
1967
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Zanetto und Tonio
1966
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
German Narrator
1966
Return from the Ashes
Stanislaw Pilgrin
1965
Der seidene Schuh
Don Rodrigo
1965
Topkapi
Walter Harper
1964
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(1 episode)
1963
The Reluctant Saint
Giuseppe
1962
The Condemned of Altona
Franz von Gerlach
1962
Five Finger Exercise
Walter
1962
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Hamlet
1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
Hans Rolfe
1961
The Fifth Column
1960
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
1959
Judgment at Nuremberg
Otto Rolfe
1959
Stars in the Ring
Self · (1 episode)
1959
Die sechste Frau
Henry Howard
1959
Die Bernauerin
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
1958
Children of the Mountains
Josef Ospel
1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
(1 episode)
1958
The Young Lions
Capt. Hardenberg
1958
Der Meisterdieb
1958
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Lorenz Darrandt
1957
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Toni Schellenberg
1957
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
1956
Playhouse 90
Otto Rolfe · (1 episode)
1956
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Dr. Oswald Hauser
1956
The Girl from Flanders
Alexander Haller
1956
Ripening Youth
Jürgen Sengebusch
1955
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
1955
Children, Mother, and the General
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
1955
The Oscars
Self · (4 episodes)
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rose's Father · (1 episode)
1951
Deutscher Filmpreis
Self · (3 episodes)
1951
Bambi-Verleihung
Self - Laudation · (1 episode)
1948
Bambi-Verleihung
Self · (2 episodes)
1948