Maximilian Schell
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.
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Acting (88 movies)
Avalanche Express
1979
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
To Be Hamlet
1985
Abraham
1993
Cross of Iron
1977
Les Îles
1983
Topkapi
1964
A Bridge Too Far
1977
The Odessa File
1974
The Brothers Bloom
2008
Deep Impact
1998
The Shell Seekers
2007
The Chosen
1981
The Black Hole
1979
Vampires
1998
The Eighteenth Angel
1997
The Young Lions
1958
Julia
1977
The Pedestrian
1973
The Deadly Affair
1967
St. Ives
1976
The Man in the Glass Booth
1975
Krakatoa, East of Java
1968
On the Wings of Love
1999
Left Luggage
1998
Return from the Ashes
1965
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
Stalin
1992
Darkness
2009
Festival in Cannes
2001
The Reluctant Saint
1962
House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006
Die Rosenkönigin
2007
The Fifth Column
1960
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
The Condemned of Altona
1962
Counterpoint
1967
Together?
1979
My Sister Maria
2002
Man Under Suspicion
1984
The Castle
1968
First Love
1970
Justice
1993
Simon Bolivar
1969
Why Havel?
1991
Players
1979
The Assisi Underground
1985
Five Finger Exercise
1962
The Rose Garden
1989
Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
Miss Rose White
1992
Children, Mother, and the General
1955
Heidi
1968
The Girl from Flanders
1956
Black Flowers
2009
The Vampyre Wars
1996
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961
Les brigands
2015
The Day That Shook the World
1975
Der seidene Schuh
1965
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
Telling Lies in America
1997
Children of the Mountains
1958
Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003
A Far Off Place
1993
Die Alpenklinik
2006
The Phantom of the Opera
1983
Candles in the Dark
1993
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966
You Can't Live Like That
1990
Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957
Pope Joan
1972
Little Odessa
1994
Marlene
1984
The Freshman
1990
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
The Desperate Ones
1967
Jedermann Remixed
2011
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004
Paulina 1880
1972
Coast to Coast
2004
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959
Just Messing About
2000
End of the Game
1978
Directing (8 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Castle | 1968 | Writer |
| First Love | 1970 | Producer |
| First Love | 1970 | Writer |
| Trotta | 1971 | Screenplay |
| The Pedestrian | 1973 | Writer |
| The Pedestrian | 1973 | Producer |
| The Clown | 1976 | Producer |
| End of the Game | 1978 | Writer |
| End of the Game | 1978 | Producer |
| Tales from the Vienna Woods | 1979 | Writer |
| Tales from the Vienna Woods | 1979 | Producer |
| My Sister Maria | 2002 | Executive Producer |