Maximilian Schell

Acting · 1.9 popularity

Age

Movies

100

Born: December 8, 1930 – February 1, 2014
From: Vienna, Austria

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.

Works

100 films

Deep Impact

19986.2

A Bridge Too Far

19777.2

Vampires

19986.3

The Black Hole

19795.8

Judgment at Nuremberg

19618.0

Cross of Iron

19777.1

The Freshman

19906.3

The Young Lions

19586.8

Counterpoint

19676.2

The Brothers Bloom

20086.5

First Love

19705.7

Abraham

19937.1

The Odessa File

19746.6

To Be Hamlet

1985

Little Odessa

19946.5

Julia

19776.5

Krakatoa, East of Java

19695.8

St. Ives

19765.8

A Far Off Place

19936.2

Left Luggage

19986.3

The Deadly Affair

19676.3

Telling Lies in America

19975.8

Topkapi

19646.5

Heidi

19686.3

Black Flowers

20094.4

The Chosen

19817.1

Stalin

19925.3

Avalanche Express

19794.8

Marlene

19847.0

The Condemned of Altona

19627.1

Paulina 1880

19728.7

The Man in the Glass Booth

19756.1

Zwischen Rosen

19979.0

End of the Game

19755.0

House of the Sleeping Beauties

20065.3

Just Messing About

20004.5

Pope Joan

19726.1

The Shell Seekers

20076.9

The Phantom of the Opera

19835.9

Simón Bolívar

19695.1

The Day That Shook the World

19756.1

Der Meisterdieb

1958

Coast to Coast

20047.0

Tales from the Vienna Woods

19796.1

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

19966.9

The Rose Garden

19896.7

You Can't Live Like That

19905.0

Return from the Ashes

19656.2

The Assisi Underground

19855.1

The Diary of Anne Frank

19805.8

Alles Glück dieser Erde

20036.3

Children, Mother, and the General

19556.4

The Return of the Dancing Master

20045.3

The Eighteenth Angel

19975.1

The Girl from Flanders

19568.6

Festival in Cannes

20015.3

Judgment at Nuremberg

19596.0

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

20027.0

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

19567.0

Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell

2010

Darkness

20094.1

Five Finger Exercise

19625.6

The Desperate Ones

19678.0

Die venezianischen Zwillinge

1966

The Pedestrian

19737.0

Die Alpenklinik

20062.3

The Fifth Column

19608.3

Die Rosenkönigin

20075.6

Players

19794.9

Candles in the Dark

19936.0

Together?

19795.2

The Castle

19686.6

The Reluctant Saint

19627.8

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

19556.1

On the Wings of Love

19996.5

Les brigands

20153.4

Justice

19935.6

The Vampyre Wars

1996

I Love You, Baby

20009.0

My Sister Maria

20026.7

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

19612.8

Les Îles

19839.0

Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste

1959

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music

199610.0

Labyrinth

19918.5

Why Havel?

1991

Miss Rose White

19925.0

The Last Ones Shall Be First

19577.0

Man Under Suspicion

19846.5

Children of the Mountains

195810.0

Die Bernauerin

195810.0

Ein Herz kehrt heim

19567.0

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

19665.8

Die Liebe eines Priesters

200510.0

Jedermann Remixed

2011

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

20049.0

Ripening Youth

19557.0

Die sechste Frau

1959

Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki

2007

Taxichauffeur Bänz

19577.2