Maximilian Schell

Acting

Born Dec 08, 1930

From Vienna, Austria

Died Feb 01, 2014

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.

Maximilian Schell

Known For

Deep Impact

A Bridge Too Far

Judgment at Nuremberg

Vampires

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

The Black Hole

Julia

Cross of Iron

A Far Off Place

The Brothers Bloom

Filmography — Acting

Deep Impact

A Bridge Too Far

Judgment at Nuremberg

Vampires

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

The Black Hole

Julia

Cross of Iron

A Far Off Place

The Brothers Bloom

The Freshman

Stalin

Topkapi

The Odessa File

The Deadly Affair

The Young Lions

Abraham

Avalanche Express

Counterpoint

Little Odessa

Heidi

The Chosen

St. Ives

Pope Joan

Krakatoa, East of Java

Telling Lies in America

The Phantom of the Opera

The Man in the Glass Booth

Players

Return from the Ashes

The Rose Garden

The Pedestrian

First Love

The Diary of Anne Frank

Coast to Coast

The Reluctant Saint

Simón Bolívar

The Eighteenth Angel

Festival in Cannes

Justice

Left Luggage

House of the Sleeping Beauties

The Condemned of Altona

End of the Game

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

To Be Hamlet

Alles Glück dieser Erde

Black Flowers

I Love You, Baby

The Assisi Underground

The Shell Seekers

Miss Rose White

Judgment at Nuremberg

The Return of the Dancing Master

Five Finger Exercise

Die Liebe eines Priesters

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

The Fifth Column

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

The Day That Shook the World

Marlene

Children, Mother, and the General

Candles in the Dark

Jedermann Remixed

Darkness

The Last Ones Shall Be First

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark