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 – 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.

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Biography

Deep Impact

First Love

A Bridge Too Far

Counterpoint

Vampires

Topkapi

Zwischen Rosen

Judgment at Nuremberg

Cross of Iron

The Black Hole

Telling Lies in America

The Condemned of Altona

The Freshman

Stalin

The Young Lions

The Odessa File

Krakatoa, East of Java

The Brothers Bloom

You Can't Live Like That

Little Odessa

The Assisi Underground

Heidi

To Be Hamlet

Festival in Cannes

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Reluctant Saint

Coast to Coast

The Deadly Affair

Return from the Ashes

The Day That Shook the World

The Rose Garden

Abraham

End of the Game

Paulina 1880

Judgment at Nuremberg

Darkness

The Eighteenth Angel

Five Finger Exercise

Julia

Left Luggage

Der Meisterdieb

Children, Mother, and the General

Together?

Black Flowers

Die Rosenkönigin

Marlene

A Far Off Place

Players

House of the Sleeping Beauties

The Chosen

The Man in the Glass Booth

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

Simón Bolívar

Avalanche Express

The Castle

My Sister Maria

Just Messing About

Miss Rose White

On the Wings of Love

St. Ives

Les brigands

The Girl from Flanders

The Return of the Dancing Master

The Fifth Column

Die Liebe eines Priesters

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

The Vampyre Wars

The Shell Seekers

The Last Ones Shall Be First

Die venezianischen Zwillinge

Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell

Candles in the Dark

I Love You, Baby

Man Under Suspicion

Justice

Alles Glück dieser Erde

The Phantom of the Opera