Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

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: Acting

Born: Vienna, Austria, 1930-12-08

Died: 2014-02-01

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Children, Mother, and the General	Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht	58
2	1955	The Plot to Assassinate Hitler	Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises	58
3	1955	Ripening Youth	Jürgen Sengebusch	0
4	1956	The Girl from Flanders	Alexander Haller	88
5	1956	Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz	Dr. Oswald Hauser	40
6	1956	Ein Herz kehrt heim	Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn	70
7	1957	Taxichauffeur Bänz	Toni Schellenberg	68
8	1957	The Last Ones Shall Be First	Lorenz Darrandt	0
9	1958	Der Meisterdieb		0
10	1958	The Young Lions	Capt. Hardenberg	68
11	1958	Children of the Mountains	Josef Ospel	0
12	1958	Die Bernauerin	Herzog Albrecht von Bayern	0
13	1959	Die sechste Frau	Henry Howard	0
14	1959	Judgment at Nuremberg	Otto Rolfe	0
15	1959	Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste	Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow	0
16	1960	The Fifth Column		95
17	1961	Judgment at Nuremberg	Hans Rolfe	80
18	1961	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	Hamlet	25
19	1962	Five Finger Exercise	Walter	48
20	1962	The Condemned of Altona	Franz von Gerlach	70
21	1962	The Reluctant Saint	Giuseppe	76
22	1964	Topkapi	Walter Harper	65
23	1965	Der seidene Schuh	Don Rodrigo	0
24	1965	Return from the Ashes	Stanislaw Pilgrin	61
25	1966	John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums	German Narrator	50
26	1966	Die venezianischen Zwillinge	Zanetto und Tonio	0
27	1967	The Desperate Ones	Marek	0
28	1967	The Deadly Affair	Dieter Frey	62
29	1967	Counterpoint	Gen. Schiller	62
30	1968	The Castle	K	62
31	1968	Heidi	Richard Sessemann	61
32	1968	Krakatoa, East of Java	Captain Chris Hanson	59
33	1969	Simon Bolivar	Simón Bolívar	55
34	1970	First Love	Vater	52
35	1972	Paulina 1880	Count Michele Cantarini	80
36	1972	Pope Joan	Adrian	59
37	1973	The Pedestrian	Andreas Giese	64
38	1974	The Odessa File	Eduard Roschmann	66
39	1975	The Man in the Glass Booth	Arthur Goldman	61
40	1975	The Day That Shook the World	Đuro Šarac	59
41	1976	St. Ives	Dr. John Constable	57
42	1977	Cross of Iron	Hauptmann Stransky	71
43	1977	A Bridge Too Far	General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich	72
44	1977	Julia	Johann	65
45	1979	Tales from the Vienna Woods	Theatre Visitor	60
46	1979	Players	Marco	41
47	1979	Avalanche Express	Colonel Nikolai Bunin	48
48	1979	Together?	Giovanni	48
49	1979	The Black Hole	Dr. Hans Reinhardt	58
50	1980	The Diary of Anne Frank	Otto Frank	55
51	1981	The Chosen	Professor David Malter	72
52	1983	The Phantom of the Opera	Sandor Korvin/Phantom	51
53	1983	Les Îles	Fabrice	0
54	1984	Marlene	Himself	70
55	1985	To Be Hamlet	Self	0
56	1985	Man Under Suspicion	Lawyer Landau	50
57	1985	The Assisi Underground	Col. Müller	52
58	1989	The Rose Garden	Aaron	64
59	1990	The Freshman	Larry London	63
60	1990	You Can't Live Like That	German Commentator	30
61	1991	Why Havel?		0
62	1991	Labyrint	The Filmmaker	0
63	1992	Miss Rose White	Mordecai Weiss	52
64	1992	Stalin	Vladimir Lenin	51
65	1993	A Far Off Place	Col. Mopani Theron	61
66	1993	Justice	Isaak Kohler	54
67	1993	Candles in the Dark	Colonel Arkush	30
68	1993	Abraham	Pharao	70
69	1994	Little Odessa	Arkady Shapira	64
70	1996	The Vampyre Wars	Rodan	0
71	1996	The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years	Cardinal Vittorio	70
72	1997	The Eighteenth Angel	Father Simeon	49
73	1997	Zwischen Rosen	Carl Stern	0
74	1997	Telling Lies in America	Dr. Istvan Jonas	58
75	1998	Left Luggage	Mr. Silberschmidt	64
76	1998	Deep Impact	Jason Lerner	62
77	1998	Vampires	Cardinal Alba	63
78	1999	On the Wings of Love	Hochberg	40
79	2000	Just Messing About	Poser	0
80	2000	I Love You, Baby	Walter Ekland	0
81	2001	Festival in Cannes	Viktor Kovner	55
82	2002	My Sister Maria	Himself	60
83	2002	Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch	Karl Steingraf	50
84	2003	Alles Glück dieser Erde	Xaver Schönborn	45
85	2004	Coast to Coast	Casimir	66
86	2004	The Return of the Dancing Master	Fernando Hereira	49
87	2004	In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell	Self	0
88	2005	Die Liebe eines Priesters	Father Christoph	0
89	2006	Die Alpenklinik	Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf	30
90	2006	House of the Sleeping Beauties	Kogi	56
91	2007	Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki	Himself	0
92	2007	Die Rosenkönigin	Karl Friedrich Weidemann	56
93	2007	The Shell Seekers	Lawrence Sterne	69
94	2008	The Brothers Bloom	Diamond Dog	66
95	2009	Darkness		39
96	2009	Black Flowers	Jacob Krinsten	44
97	2010	Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell	Self	0
98	2011	Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War	Self (archive footage)	0
99	2011	Jedermann Remixed	Jedermann (archive footage)	0
100	2015	Les brigands	Mr. Escher	40

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self - Laudation	90
2	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	90
3	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	60
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Rose's Father	86
5	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
6	1956	Playhouse 90	Otto Rolfe	76
7	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		58
8	1959	Stars in the Ring	Self	53
9	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
10	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
11	1968	The Three Musketeers		0
12	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
13	1973	Je später der Abend	Self	0
14	1976	Kölner Treff	Self	60
15	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
16	1979	Bayerischer Filmpreis	Self	0
17	1980	Heut' abend	Self	0
18	1984	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self - Presenter	35
19	1986	Peter the Great	Peter the Great	80
20	1986	Showgeschichten	self	0
21	1987	Nachtcafé	Self	47
22	1987	Wiseguy	Amado Guzman	65
23	1987	Seitenblicke	self	0
24	1990	Romy Award	Self	90
25	1991	Young Catherine	Frederick the Great	62
26	1992	Riverboat	Self	40
27	1994	Abraham	Pharaoh	80
28	1994	Abraham	Pharao	80
29	1994	alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio	Self	50
30	1995	Kulturzeit	self	35
31	1995	Lebens-Künstler	Self	0
32	1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self	70
33	1998	The Johannes B. Kerner Show	Self	40
34	1999	Beckmann	Self	20
35	1999	Joan of Arc	Brother Jean le Maistre	65
36	2002	Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften	Franz Steininger	30
37	2002	Gero von Boehm begegnet...	Self	0
38	2003	Menschen bei Maischberger	Self	63
39	2003	Der Fürst und das Mädchen		0
40	2003	Der Fürst und das Mädchen	Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald	0
41	2004	Kulturplatz	Self	60
42	2004	Servus, Hansi Hinterseer	Self	0
43	2005	G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten	Self	40
44	2006	Semperopernball	Self	0
45	2007	Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz	Self	0
46	2008	Imperium der Päpste	Sprecher	0
47	2008	Markus Lanz	Self	55
48	2010	Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski	Self	0