Maximilian Schell
97 movies · 13 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 8, 1930
- Died
- Feb 1, 2014 (age 83)
- Place of birth
- 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).
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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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Maximilian Schell: movies and TV shows
Acting (105)
- 2015 Les brigands
as Mr. Escher
- 2011 Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)
- 2009 Black Flowers
as Jacob Krinsten
- 2009
- 2009 The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond Dog
- 2008
- 2007 The Shell Seekers
as Lawrence Sterne
- 2007 Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
- 2006 House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Kogi
- 2006 Die Alpenklinik
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
- 2005 Die Liebe eines Priesters
as Father Christoph
- 2004 The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando Hereira
- 2004 Coast to Coast
as Casimir
- 2003 Alles Glück dieser Erde
as Xaver Schönborn
- 2003
- 2002 Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Karl Steingraf
- 2002
- 2001 Festival in Cannes
as Viktor Kovner
- 2000 I Love You, Baby
as Walter Ekland
- 2000 Just Messing About
as Poser
- 1999
- 1999 On the Wings of Love
as Hochberg
- 1998 Vampires
as Cardinal Alba
- 1998 Deep Impact
as Jason Lerner
- 1998 Left Luggage
as Mr. Silberschmidt
- 1997 Telling Lies in America
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
- 1997 Zwischen Rosen
as Carl Stern
- 1997 The Eighteenth Angel
as Father Simeon
- 1996 The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
as Cardinal Vittorio
- 1996 The Vampyre Wars
as Rodan
- 1994 Little Odessa
as Arkady Shapira
- 1993 Abraham
as Pharao
- 1993
- 1993 Candles in the Dark
as Colonel Arkush
- 1993 Justice
as Isaak Kohler
- 1993 A Far Off Place
as Col. Mopani Theron
- 1992 Stalin
as Vladimir Lenin
- 1992 Miss Rose White
as Mordecai Weiss
- 1991 Labyrinth
as The Filmmaker
- 1991
- 1991
- 1990 You Can't Live Like That
as German Commentator
- 1990 The Freshman
as Larry London
- 1989 The Rose Garden
as Aaron
- 1987
- 1986
- 1985 The Assisi Underground
as Col. Müller
- 1984 Man Under Suspicion
as Lawyer Landau
- 1983 Les Îles
as Fabrice
- 1983 The Phantom of the Opera
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
- 1981 The Chosen
as Professor David Malter
- 1980 The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
- 1979 The Black Hole
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
- 1979 Together?
as Giovanni
- 1979 Avalanche Express
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
- 1979 Players
as Marco
- 1979 Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Theatre Visitor
- 1977 Julia
as Johann
- 1977 A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
- 1977 Cross of Iron
as Hauptmann Stransky
- 1976 St. Ives
as Dr. John Constable
- 1975 The Day That Shook the World
as Đuro Šarac
- 1975 End of the Game
as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
- 1975 The Man in the Glass Booth
as Arthur Goldman
- 1974 The Odessa File
as Eduard Roschmann
- 1973 The Pedestrian
as Andreas Giese
- 1972 Pope Joan
as Adrian
- 1972 Paulina 1880
as Count Michele Cantarini
- 1970 First Love
as Vater
- 1969 Simón Bolívar
as Simón Bolívar
- 1969 Krakatoa, East of Java
as Captain Chris Hanson
- 1968 Heidi
as Richard Sessemann
- 1968 The Castle
as K
- 1967 Counterpoint
as Gen. Schiller
- 1967 The Desperate Ones
as Marek
- 1967 The Deadly Affair
as Dieter Frey
- 1966 Die venezianischen Zwillinge
as Zanetto und Tonio
- 1966 John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as German Narrator
- 1965 Return from the Ashes
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
- 1965
- 1964 Topkapi
as Walter Harper
- 1962 The Reluctant Saint
as Giuseppe
- 1962 The Condemned of Altona
as Franz von Gerlach
- 1962 Five Finger Exercise
as Walter
- 1961 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
as Hamlet
- 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg
as Hans Rolfe
- 1960
- 1959 Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
- 1959 Judgment at Nuremberg
as Otto Rolfe
- 1959 Die sechste Frau
as Henry Howard
- 1958 Die Bernauerin
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
- 1958 Children of the Mountains
as Josef Ospel
- 1958
- 1958 The Young Lions
as Capt. Hardenberg
- 1958
- 1957 The Last Ones Shall Be First
as Lorenz Darrandt
- 1957 Taxichauffeur Bänz
as Toni Schellenberg
- 1956 Ein Herz kehrt heim
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
- 1956
- 1956 Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
- 1956 The Girl from Flanders
as Alexander Haller
- 1955 Ripening Youth
as Jürgen Sengebusch
- 1955 The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
- 1955 Children, Mother, and the General
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
- 1951
Behind the camera (14)
- 2008
- 2002 My Sister Maria
Director, Executive Producer
- 1997
- 1993 Candles in the Dark
Director
- 1985 Die Föhnforscher
Co-Producer
- 1984 Marlene
Director
- 1979 Tales from the Vienna Woods
Producer, Writer, Director
- 1976 The Clown
Producer
- 1975 End of the Game
Director, Writer, Producer
- 1973 The Pedestrian
Director, Writer, Producer
- 1971 Trotta
Screenplay
- 1970 First Love
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1968 The Castle
Writer
- 1967 Alles zum Guten
Director
Talk shows and appearances (41)
- 2010
- 2010 Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
1 episode
- 2010 Das blaue Sofa
1 episode
- 2008 Markus Lanz
1 episode
- 2007
- 2007 Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
1 episode
- 2006 Semperopernball
1 episode
- 2005 G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten
1 episode
- 2004 Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
1 episode
- 2004
- 2004 Kulturplatz
1 episode
- 2003 Menschen bei Maischberger
1 episode
- 2002 Gero von Boehm begegnet...
1 episode
- 1999 Beckmann
3 episodes
- 1998 Sternstunde Kunst
1 episode
- 1998 The Johannes B. Kerner Show
3 episodes
- 1996
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show
2 episodes
- 1995 Lebens-Künstler
1 episode
- 1994 alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1 episode
- 1992 Riverboat
1 episode
- 1990 Romy Award
1 episode
- 1987 Seitenblicke
1 episode
- 1987 Nachtcafé
1 episode
- 1986 Showgeschichten
1 episode
- 1985
- 1984 Goldene Kamera
1 episode
- 1982 Bernstein/Beethoven
11 episodes
- 1980 Heut' abend
1 episode
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards
1 episode
- 1979 NDR Talk Show
1 episode
- 1976 Kölner Treff
2 episodes
- 1975 People's Choice Awards
1 episode
- 1973 Je später der Abend
1 episode
- 1971 V.I.P. Schaukel
1 episode
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show
1 episode
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode
- 1959 Stars in der Manege
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
4 episodes
- 1951 German Film Award
3 episodes
- 1948 Bambi
3 episodes