Maximilian Schell

Acting · 1.7 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

Judgment at Nuremberg

19618.0

The Black Hole

19795.8

Vampires

19986.3

Cross of Iron

19777.1

The Brothers Bloom

20086.5

The Young Lions

19586.8

Abraham

19937.1

The Freshman

19906.3

First Love

19705.7

Counterpoint

19676.2

St. Ives

19765.8

Little Odessa

19946.5

The Odessa File

19746.6

Topkapi

19646.5

Julia

19776.5

The Man in the Glass Booth

19756.1

To Be Hamlet

1985

Heidi

19686.3

A Far Off Place

19936.2

Stalin

19925.3

Krakatoa, East of Java

19695.8

Avalanche Express

19794.8

The Deadly Affair

19676.3

House of the Sleeping Beauties

20065.3

The Chosen

19817.1

The Shell Seekers

20076.9

Telling Lies in America

19975.8

Zwischen Rosen

19979.0

Pope Joan

19726.1

Just Messing About

20004.5

Paulina 1880

19728.7

Alles Glück dieser Erde

20036.3

The Condemned of Altona

19627.1

Coast to Coast

20047.0

The Phantom of the Opera

19835.9

Left Luggage

19986.3

Marlene

19847.0

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

19966.9

Black Flowers

20094.4

End of the Game

19755.0

The Assisi Underground

19855.1

The Diary of Anne Frank

19805.8

The Return of the Dancing Master

20045.3

The Eighteenth Angel

19975.1

Darkness

20094.1

Tales from the Vienna Woods

19796.1

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

20027.0

Der Meisterdieb

1958

On the Wings of Love

19996.5

Children, Mother, and the General

19556.4

You Can't Live Like That

19905.0

The Day That Shook the World

19756.1

Simón Bolívar

19695.1

My Sister Maria

20026.7

Players

19794.9

Candles in the Dark

19936.0

The Rose Garden

19896.7

Die venezianischen Zwillinge

1966

Return from the Ashes

19656.2

Five Finger Exercise

19625.6

Festival in Cannes

20015.3

Die Rosenkönigin

20075.6

Judgment at Nuremberg

19596.0

Justice

19935.6

Together?

19795.2

Les brigands

20153.4

The Reluctant Saint

19627.8

Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell

2010

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

19612.8

The Castle

19686.6

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

19665.8

The Fifth Column

19608.3

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

19556.1

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

19567.0

I Love You, Baby

20009.0

Miss Rose White

19925.0

The Last Ones Shall Be First

19577.0

Les Îles

19839.0

Die Liebe eines Priesters

200510.0

The Desperate Ones

19678.0

Why Havel?

1991

Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste

1959

Labyrinth

19918.5

The Vampyre Wars

1996

The Pedestrian

19737.0

The Girl from Flanders

19568.6

Jedermann Remixed

2011

Ripening Youth

19557.0

Ein Herz kehrt heim

19567.0

Man Under Suspicion

19846.5

Die Alpenklinik

20062.3

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

20049.0

Taxichauffeur Bänz

19577.2

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music

199610.0

Children of the Mountains

195810.0

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

2007

Die Bernauerin

195810.0

Die sechste Frau

1959