Maximilian Schell
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1930-12-08
Deathday 2014-02-01 (83 years old)
Place of Birth Vienna, Austria
Also Known As Максимилиан Шелл
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maximilian Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Mr. Escher
as Jedermann (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Jacob Krinsten
as Diamond Dog
as Self
as Sprecher
as Lawrence Sterne
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
as Self
as Kogi
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
as Self
as Father Christoph
as Self
as Fernando Hereira
as Casimir
as Self
as Self
as Xaver Schönborn
as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
as Self
as Karl Steingraf
as Himself
as Self
as Franz Steininger
as Viktor Kovner
as Walter Ekland
as Hochberg
as Brother Jean le Maistre
as Self
as Cardinal Alba
as Jason Lerner
as Mr. Silberschmidt
as Self
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
as Carl Stern
as Father Simeon
as Rodan
as Cardinal Vittorio
as Self
as Self
as self
as Arkady Shapira
as Self
as Pharaoh
as Pharao
as Colonel Arkush
as Isaak Kohler
as Col. Mopani Theron
as Vladimir Lenin
as Mordecai Weiss
as Self
as The Filmmaker
as Frederick the Great
as German Commentator
as Larry London
as Self
as Aaron
as self
as Amado Guzman
as Self
as self
as Peter the Great
as Col. Müller
as Lawyer Landau
as Self
as Himself
as Fabrice
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
as Professor David Malter
as Otto Frank
as Self
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
as Giovanni
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
as Marco
as Theatre Visitor
as Self
as Self
as Johann
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
as Hauptmann Stransky
as Dr. John Constable
as Self
as Đuro Šarac
as Arthur Goldman
as Eduard Roschmann
as Andreas Giese
as Self
as Adrian
as Count Michele Cantarini
as Self
as Vater
as Simón Bolívar
as Captain Chris Hanson
as Richard Sessemann
as K
as Self - Guest
as Gen. Schiller
as Dieter Frey
as Marek
as Zanetto und Tonio
as German Narrator
as Self - Presenter
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
as Don Rodrigo
as Walter Harper
as Giuseppe
as Franz von Gerlach
as Walter
as Hamlet
as Hans Rolfe
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
as Otto Rolfe
as Henry Howard
as Self
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
as Josef Ospel
as Capt. Hardenberg
as Lorenz Darrandt
as Toni Schellenberg
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
as Alexander Haller
as Otto Rolfe
as Jürgen Sengebusch
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
as Self
as Rose's Father
as Self
as Self - Laudation
as Self
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Co-Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Writer
Creator
as Creator