Maximilian Schell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 8, 1930
- Died
- Feb 1, 2014 (aged 83)
- Place of birth
- Vienna, Austria
- Credits
- 148
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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Known for
Deep Impact
1998Movie
Jason Lerner
Vampires
1998Movie
Cardinal Alba
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961Movie
Hans Rolfe
A Bridge Too Far
1977Movie
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
The Brothers Bloom
2009Movie
Diamond Dog
The Black Hole
1979Movie
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Filmography
Les brigands
2015Movie
Mr. Escher
Jedermann Remixed
2011Movie
Jedermann (archive footage)
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010Movie
Self
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
2010TV
Self
Das blaue Sofa
2010TV
Self
Black Flowers
2009Movie
Jacob Krinsten
Darkness
2009Movie
The Brothers Bloom
2009Movie
Diamond Dog
Markus Lanz
2008TV
Self
Imperium der Päpste
2008TV
Sprecher
The Shell Seekers
2007Movie
Lawrence Sterne
Die Rosenkönigin
2007Movie
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007Movie
Himself
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
2007TV
Self
House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006Movie
Kogi
Die Alpenklinik
2006Movie
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Semperopernball
2006TV
Self
Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005Movie
Father Christoph
G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten
2005TV
Self
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
2004TV
Self
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004Movie
Self
Kulturplatz
2004TV
Self
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004Movie
Fernando Hereira
Coast to Coast
2004Movie
Casimir
Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003Movie
Xaver Schönborn
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003TV
Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003TV
Self
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002Movie
Karl Steingraf
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002TV
Self
My Sister Maria
2002Movie
Himself
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002TV
Franz Steininger
Festival in Cannes
2001Movie
Viktor Kovner
I Love You, Baby
2000Movie
Walter Ekland
Just Messing About
2000Movie
Poser
Joan of Arc
1999TV
Brother Jean le Maistre
On the Wings of Love
1999Movie
Hochberg
Beckmann
1999TV
Self
Sternstunde Kunst
1998TV
Self
Vampires
1998Movie
Cardinal Alba
Deep Impact
1998Movie
Jason Lerner
Left Luggage
1998Movie
Mr. Silberschmidt
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998TV
Self
Telling Lies in America
1997Movie
Dr. Istvan Jonas
Zwischen Rosen
1997Movie
Carl Stern
The Eighteenth Angel
1997Movie
Father Simeon
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996Movie
Cardinal Vittorio
The Vampyre Wars
1996Movie
Rodan
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996Movie
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995TV
Self
Lebens-Künstler
1995TV
Self
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994TV
Self
Little Odessa
1994Movie
Arkady Shapira
Abraham
1993Movie
Pharao
Abraham
1993TV
Pharaoh, Pharao
Candles in the Dark
1993Movie
Colonel Arkush
Justice
1993Movie
Isaak Kohler
A Far Off Place
1993Movie
Col. Mopani Theron
Stalin
1992Movie
Vladimir Lenin
Miss Rose White
1992Movie
Mordecai Weiss
Riverboat
1992TV
Self
Labyrinth
1991Movie
The Filmmaker
Why Havel?
1991Movie
Young Catherine
1991TV
Frederick the Great
You Can't Live Like That
1990Movie
German Commentator
The Freshman
1990Movie
Larry London
Romy Award
1990TV
Self
The Rose Garden
1989Movie
Aaron
Seitenblicke
1987TV
self
Wiseguy
1987TV
Amado Guzman
Nachtcafé
1987TV
Self
Showgeschichten
1986TV
self
Peter the Great
1986TV
Peter the Great
The Assisi Underground
1985Movie
Col. Müller
To Be Hamlet
1985Movie
Self
Marlene
1984Movie
Himself
Man Under Suspicion
1984Movie
Lawyer Landau
Goldene Kamera
1984TV
Self - Presenter
Les Îles
1983Movie
Fabrice
The Phantom of the Opera
1983Movie
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
Bernstein/Beethoven
1982TV
Self (commentary)
The Chosen
1981Movie
Professor David Malter
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980Movie
Otto Frank
Heut' abend
1980TV
Self
The Black Hole
1979Movie
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Together?
1979Movie
Giovanni
Bavarian Film Awards
1979TV
Self
Avalanche Express
1979Movie
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Players
1979Movie
Marco
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979Movie
Theatre Visitor
NDR Talk Show
1979TV
Self
Julia
1977Movie
Johann
A Bridge Too Far
1977Movie
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Cross of Iron
1977Movie
Hauptmann Stransky
St. Ives
1976Movie
Dr. John Constable
Kölner Treff
1976TV
Self
The Day That Shook the World
1975Movie
Đuro Šarac
End of the Game
1975Movie
Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
People's Choice Awards
1975TV
Self
The Man in the Glass Booth
1975Movie
Arthur Goldman
The Odessa File
1974Movie
Eduard Roschmann
The Pedestrian
1973Movie
Andreas Giese
Je später der Abend
1973TV
Self
Pope Joan
1972Movie
Adrian
Paulina 1880
1972Movie
Count Michele Cantarini
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971TV
Self
First Love
1970Movie
Vater
Simón Bolívar
1969Movie
Simón Bolívar
Krakatoa, East of Java
1969Movie
Captain Chris Hanson
Heidi
1968Movie
Richard Sessemann
The Castle
1968Movie
K
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
Counterpoint
1967Movie
Gen. Schiller
The Desperate Ones
1967Movie
Marek
The Deadly Affair
1967Movie
Dieter Frey
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966Movie
Zanetto und Tonio
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966Movie
German Narrator
Return from the Ashes
1965Movie
Stanislaw Pilgrin
Der seidene Schuh
1965TV
Don Rodrigo
Topkapi
1964Movie
Walter Harper
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963TV
The Reluctant Saint
1962Movie
Giuseppe
The Condemned of Altona
1962Movie
Franz von Gerlach
Five Finger Exercise
1962Movie
Walter
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961Movie
Hamlet
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961Movie
Hans Rolfe
The Fifth Column
1960Movie
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959Movie
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959Movie
Otto Rolfe
Stars in der Manege
1959TV
Self
Die sechste Frau
1959Movie
Henry Howard
Die Bernauerin
1958Movie
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Children of the Mountains
1958Movie
Josef Ospel
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958TV
The Young Lions
1958Movie
Capt. Hardenberg
Der Meisterdieb
1958Movie
The Last Ones Shall Be First
1957Movie
Lorenz Darrandt
Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957Movie
Toni Schellenberg
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956Movie
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Playhouse 90
1956TV
Otto Rolfe
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956Movie
Dr. Oswald Hauser
The Girl from Flanders
1956Movie
Alexander Haller
Ripening Youth
1955Movie
Jürgen Sengebusch
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955Movie
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Children, Mother, and the General
1955Movie
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Rose's Father
German Film Award
1951TV
Self
Bambi
1948TV
Self - Laudation, Self