Maximilian Schell
Acting • Born 1930-12-08 – Died 2014-02-01
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.
Filmography
152 credits
Avalanche Express
Movie • 1979
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
I Love You, Baby
Movie • 2000
Walter Ekland
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie • 1961
Hans Rolfe
To Be Hamlet
Movie • 1985
Self
Abraham
Movie • 1993
Pharao
Cross of Iron
Movie • 1977
Hauptmann Stransky
Les Îles
Movie • 1983
Fabrice
Topkapi
Movie • 1964
Walter Harper
A Bridge Too Far
Movie • 1977
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
The Odessa File
Movie • 1974
Eduard Roschmann
The Brothers Bloom
Movie • 2008
Diamond Dog
Deep Impact
Movie • 1998
Jason Lerner
The Shell Seekers
Movie • 2007
Lawrence Sterne
The Chosen
Movie • 1981
Professor David Malter
The Black Hole
Movie • 1979
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Vampires
Movie • 1998
Cardinal Alba
The Eighteenth Angel
Movie • 1997
Father Simeon
The Young Lions
Movie • 1958
Capt. Hardenberg
Julia
Movie • 1977
Johann
The Pedestrian
Movie • 1973
Andreas Giese
The Deadly Affair
Movie • 1967
Dieter Frey
St. Ives
Movie • 1976
Dr. John Constable
The Man in the Glass Booth
Movie • 1975
Arthur Goldman
Krakatoa, East of Java
Movie • 1969
Captain Chris Hanson
On the Wings of Love
Movie • 1999
Hochberg
Left Luggage
Movie • 1998
Mr. Silberschmidt
Return from the Ashes
Movie • 1965
Stanislaw Pilgrin
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie • 1980
Otto Frank
Stalin
Movie • 1992
Vladimir Lenin
Darkness
Movie • 2009
Festival in Cannes
Movie • 2001
Viktor Kovner
The Reluctant Saint
Movie • 1962
Giuseppe
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Movie • 2006
Kogi
Die Rosenkönigin
Movie • 2007
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
The Fifth Column
Movie • 1960
The Return of the Dancing Master
Movie • 2004
Fernando Hereira
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Movie • 1979
Theatre Visitor
The Condemned of Altona
Movie • 1962
Franz von Gerlach
Counterpoint
Movie • 1967
Gen. Schiller
Together?
Movie • 1979
Giovanni
My Sister Maria
Movie • 2002
Himself
Man Under Suspicion
Movie • 1984
Lawyer Landau
The Castle
Movie • 1968
K
First Love
Movie • 1970
Vater
Justice
Movie • 1993
Isaak Kohler
Simón Bolívar
Movie • 1969
Simón Bolívar
Why Havel?
Movie • 1991
Players
Movie • 1979
Marco
The Assisi Underground
Movie • 1985
Col. Müller
Five Finger Exercise
Movie • 1962
Walter
The Rose Garden
Movie • 1989
Aaron
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Movie • 2005
Father Christoph
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Movie • 2002
Karl Steingraf
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Movie • 1955
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Miss Rose White
Movie • 1992
Mordecai Weiss
Children, Mother, and the General
Movie • 1955
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Movie • 1957
Lorenz Darrandt
Heidi
Movie • 1968
Richard Sessemann
The Girl from Flanders
Movie • 1956
Alexander Haller
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Movie • 1956
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Black Flowers
Movie • 2009
Jacob Krinsten
The Vampyre Wars
Movie • 1996
Rodan
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Movie • 1961
Hamlet
Les brigands
Movie • 2015
Mr. Escher
The Day That Shook the World
Movie • 1975
Đuro Šarac
Der seidene Schuh
Movie • 1965
Don Rodrigo
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Movie • 1956
Dr. Oswald Hauser
Die Bernauerin
Movie • 1958
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Movie • 1966
Zanetto und Tonio
Telling Lies in America
Movie • 1997
Dr. Istvan Jonas
Children of the Mountains
Movie • 1958
Josef Ospel
Ripening Youth
Movie • 1955
Jürgen Sengebusch
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Movie • 2003
Xaver Schönborn
A Far Off Place
Movie • 1993
Col. Mopani Theron
Die Alpenklinik
Movie • 2006
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie • 1983
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
Candles in the Dark
Movie • 1993
Colonel Arkush
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
Movie • 1966
German Narrator
You Can't Live Like That
Movie • 1990
German Commentator
Labyrinth
Movie • 1991
The Filmmaker
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Movie • 1957
Toni Schellenberg
Pope Joan
Movie • 1972
Adrian
Little Odessa
Movie • 1994
Arkady Shapira
Marlene
Movie • 1984
Himself
The Freshman
Movie • 1990
Larry London
Zwischen Rosen
Movie • 1997
Carl Stern
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Movie • 1959
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Die sechste Frau
Movie • 1959
Henry Howard
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Movie • 1996
Cardinal Vittorio
The Desperate Ones
Movie • 1967
Marek
Der Meisterdieb
Movie • 1958
Jedermann Remixed
Movie • 2011
Jedermann (archive footage)
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Movie • 2007
Himself
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Movie • 2004
Self
Paulina 1880
Movie • 1972
Count Michele Cantarini
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Movie • 2010
Self
Coast to Coast
Movie • 2004
Casimir
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie • 1959
Otto Rolfe
Just Messing About
Movie • 2000
Poser
End of the Game
Movie • 1978
Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Movie • 1996
Self
Showgeschichten
TV • 1986
self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Rose's Father
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Peter the Great
TV • 1986
Peter the Great
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Three Musketeers
TV • 1968
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
TV • 2003
Stars in the Ring
TV • 1959
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
TV • 2002
Franz Steininger
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
TV • 2003
Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
Imperium der Päpste
TV • 2008
Sprecher
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
TV • 2010
Self
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Otto Rolfe
Joan of Arc
TV • 1999
Brother Jean le Maistre
Young Catherine
TV • 1991
Frederick the Great
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
TV • 2007
Self
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Romy Award
TV • 1990
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self - Presenter
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self - Laudation
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
Wiseguy
TV • 1987
Amado Guzman
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
TV • 2004
Self
Menschen bei Maischberger
TV • 2003
Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
TV • 1998
Self
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
TV • 1994
Self
Markus Lanz
TV • 2008
Self
Kölner Treff
TV • 1976
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Lebens-Künstler
TV • 1995
Self
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Beckmann
TV • 1999
Self
Kulturplatz
TV • 2004
Self
Je später der Abend
TV • 1973
Self
Abraham
TV • 1994
Pharaoh
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
TV • 2005
Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV • 2002
Self
Riverboat
TV • 1992
Self
Nachtcafé
TV • 1987
Self
Seitenblicke
TV • 1987
self
Kulturzeit
TV • 1995
self
Heut' abend
TV • 1980
Self
Semperopernball
TV • 2006
Self
Abraham
TV • 1994
Pharao
Der seidene Schuh
TV • 1965
Don Rodrigo
People's Choice Awards
TV • 1975
Self
Bernstein/Beethoven
TV • 1982
Self (commentary)