Cast
Maximilian Schell
Acting
Cast
Maximilian Schell
Known for
Acting
Born
1930-12-08
From
Vienna, Austria
Died
2014-02-01
Biography
Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 â 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 ZĂŒrich. 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), SimĂłn BolĂvar (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 â 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.
Deep Impact
as Jason Lerner
A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Vampires
as Cardinal Alba
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Hans Rolfe
Cross of Iron
as Hauptmann Stransky
Little Odessa
as Arkady Shapira
Pope Joan
as Adrian
The Freshman
as Larry London
The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond Dog
St. Ives
as Dr. John Constable
The Black Hole
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
A Far Off Place
as Col. Mopani Theron
The Odessa File
as Eduard Roschmann
The Day That Shook the World
as Äuro Ć arac
Black Flowers
as Jacob Krinsten
Julia
as Johann
Krakatoa, East of Java
as Captain Chris Hanson
The Young Lions
as Capt. Hardenberg
Counterpoint
as Gen. Schiller
Abraham
as Pharao
Topkapi
as Walter Harper
Stalin
as Vladimir Lenin
Telling Lies in America
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
Avalanche Express
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
as Cardinal Vittorio
The Chosen
as Professor David Malter
Heidi
as Richard Sessemann
The Deadly Affair
as Dieter Frey
Paulina 1880
as Count Michele Cantarini
The Desperate Ones
as Marek
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
The Reluctant Saint
as Giuseppe
Return from the Ashes
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
End of the Game
as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
The Condemned of Altona
as Franz von Gerlach
Festival in Cannes
as Viktor Kovner
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando Hereira
To Be Hamlet
as Self
The Eighteenth Angel
as Father Simeon
Just Messing About
as Poser
The Rose Garden
as Aaron
SimĂłn BolĂvar
as SimĂłn BolĂvar
I Love You, Baby
as Walter Ekland
The Phantom of the Opera
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
Players
as Marco
The Man in the Glass Booth
as Arthur Goldman
The Shell Seekers
as Lawrence Sterne
Left Luggage
as Mr. Silberschmidt
Justice
as Isaak Kohler
The Fifth Column
First Love
as Vater
Coast to Coast
as Casimir
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Otto Rolfe
House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Kogi
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
as Himself
Die Bernauerin
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
The Castle
as K
Children, Mother, and the General
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
as Zanetto und Tonio
The Assisi Underground
as Col. MĂŒller
The Pedestrian
as Andreas Giese
Miss Rose White
as Mordecai Weiss
Les brigands
as Mr. Escher
Zwischen Rosen
as Carl Stern
Marlene
as Himself
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Karl Steingraf
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
The Girl from Flanders
as Alexander Haller
Labyrinth
as The Filmmaker
Les Ăles
as Fabrice
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
as Hamlet
Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)
On the Wings of Love
as Hochberg
Ein Herz kehrt heim
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Theatre Visitor
Die Liebe eines Priesters
as Father Christoph
Five Finger Exercise
as Walter
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
Together?
as Giovanni
Candles in the Dark
as Colonel Arkush
Die Alpenklinik
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
You Can't Live Like That
as German Commentator
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
as Self
The Vampyre Wars
as Rodan
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as German Narrator
Der seidene Schuh
as Don Rodrigo
The Last Ones Shall Be First
as Lorenz Darrandt
Darkness
Why Havel?
Man Under Suspicion
as Lawyer Landau
Die sechste Frau
as Henry Howard
Ripening Youth
as JĂŒrgen Sengebusch
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsĂŒchtiger Rebell
as Self
Taxichauffeur BĂ€nz
as Toni Schellenberg
Children of the Mountains
as Josef Ospel
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
as Self
Alles GlĂŒck dieser Erde
as Xaver Schönborn
Der Meisterdieb
My Sister Maria
as Himself