Maximilian Schell
Acting
- Born:
- 1930-12-08
- Died:
- 2014-02-01
- Place of birth:
- Vienna, Austria
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.
Known For
Filmography
Les brigands
Jedermann Remixed
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
Das blaue Sofa
Black Flowers
Darkness
The Brothers Bloom
Markus Lanz
Imperium der Päpste
The Shell Seekers
Die Rosenkönigin
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Die Alpenklinik
Semperopernball
Die Liebe eines Priesters
G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Kulturplatz
The Return of the Dancing Master
Coast to Coast
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
Menschen bei Maischberger
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
My Sister Maria
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Festival in Cannes
I Love You, Baby
Just Messing About
Joan of Arc
On the Wings of Love
Beckmann
Sternstunde Kunst
Vampires
Deep Impact
Left Luggage
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
Telling Lies in America
Zwischen Rosen
The Eighteenth Angel
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
The Vampyre Wars
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Lebens-Künstler
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Little Odessa
Abraham
Abraham
Candles in the Dark
Justice
A Far Off Place
Stalin
Miss Rose White
Riverboat
Labyrinth
Why Havel?
Young Catherine
You Can't Live Like That
The Freshman
Romy Award
The Rose Garden
Seitenblicke
Wiseguy
Nachtcafé
Showgeschichten
Peter the Great
The Assisi Underground
To Be Hamlet
Marlene
Man Under Suspicion
Goldene Kamera
Les Îles
The Phantom of the Opera
Bernstein/Beethoven
The Chosen
The Diary of Anne Frank
Heut' abend
The Black Hole
Together?
Bavarian Film Awards
Avalanche Express
Players
Tales from the Vienna Woods
NDR Talk Show
Julia
A Bridge Too Far
Cross of Iron
St. Ives
Kölner Treff
The Day That Shook the World
End of the Game
People's Choice Awards
The Man in the Glass Booth
The Odessa File
The Pedestrian
Je später der Abend
Pope Joan
Paulina 1880
V.I.P. Schaukel
First Love
Simón Bolívar
Krakatoa, East of Java
Heidi
The Castle
The Dick Cavett Show
Counterpoint
The Desperate Ones
The Deadly Affair
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
Return from the Ashes
Der seidene Schuh
Topkapi
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Reluctant Saint
The Condemned of Altona
Five Finger Exercise
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Fifth Column
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stars in der Manege
Die sechste Frau
Die Bernauerin
Children of the Mountains
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Young Lions
Der Meisterdieb
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Playhouse 90
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
The Girl from Flanders
Ripening Youth
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Children, Mother, and the General
The Oscars
Hallmark Hall of Fame
German Film Award
Bambi