Maximilian Schell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 8, 1930
- Died
- February 1, 2014
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
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
Les brigands 2015
as Mr. Escher
Jedermann Remixed 2011
as Jedermann (archive footage)
- Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell 2010
as Self
Black Flowers 2009
as Jacob Krinsten
Darkness 2009
Actor
The Brothers Bloom 2009
as Diamond Dog
The Shell Seekers 2007
as Lawrence Sterne
Die Rosenkönigin 2007
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki 2007
as Himself
House of the Sleeping Beauties 2006
as Kogi
Die Alpenklinik 2006
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Die Liebe eines Priesters 2005
as Father Christoph
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell 2004
as Self
The Return of the Dancing Master 2004
as Fernando Hereira
Coast to Coast 2004
as Casimir
Alles Glück dieser Erde 2003
as Xaver Schönborn
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch 2002
as Karl Steingraf
My Sister Maria 2002
as Himself, Director, Executive Producer
Festival in Cannes 2001
as Viktor Kovner
I Love You, Baby 2000
as Walter Ekland
Just Messing About 2000
as Poser
On the Wings of Love 1999
as Hochberg
Vampires 1998
as Cardinal Alba
Deep Impact 1998
as Jason Lerner
Left Luggage 1998
as Mr. Silberschmidt
Telling Lies in America 1997
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
- Zwischen Rosen
Zwischen Rosen 1997
as Carl Stern
The Eighteenth Angel 1997
as Father Simeon
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years 1996
as Cardinal Vittorio
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music 1996
as Self
The Vampyre Wars 1996
as Rodan
Little Odessa 1994
as Arkady Shapira
Abraham 1993
as Pharao
Candles in the Dark 1993
as Colonel Arkush, Director
Justice 1993
as Isaak Kohler
A Far Off Place 1993
as Col. Mopani Theron
Stalin 1992
as Vladimir Lenin
Miss Rose White 1992
as Mordecai Weiss
Labyrinth 1991
as The Filmmaker
Why Havel? 1991
Actor
You Can't Live Like That 1990
as German Commentator
The Freshman 1990
as Larry London
The Rose Garden 1989
as Aaron
- Die Föhnforscher
Die Föhnforscher 1985
Co-Producer
The Assisi Underground 1985
as Col. Müller
To Be Hamlet 1985
as Self
Marlene 1984
as Himself, Director
Man Under Suspicion 1984
as Lawyer Landau
Les Îles 1983
as Fabrice
The Phantom of the Opera 1983
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
The Chosen 1981
as Professor David Malter
The Diary of Anne Frank 1980
as Otto Frank
The Black Hole 1979
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Together? 1979
as Giovanni
Avalanche Express 1979
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Players 1979
as Marco
Tales from the Vienna Woods 1979
as Theatre Visitor, Producer, Writer, Director
Julia 1977
as Johann
A Bridge Too Far 1977
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Cross of Iron 1977
as Hauptmann Stransky
St. Ives 1976
as Dr. John Constable
The Clown 1976
Producer
The Day That Shook the World 1975
as Đuro Šarac
End of the Game 1975
as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
The Man in the Glass Booth 1975
as Arthur Goldman
The Odessa File 1974
as Eduard Roschmann
The Pedestrian 1973
as Andreas Giese, Director, Writer, Producer
Pope Joan 1972
as Adrian
Paulina 1880 1972
as Count Michele Cantarini
Trotta 1971
Screenplay
First Love 1970
as Vater, Director, Producer, Writer
Simón Bolívar 1969
as Simón Bolívar
Krakatoa, East of Java 1969
as Captain Chris Hanson
Heidi 1968
as Richard Sessemann
The Castle 1968
as K, Writer
Counterpoint 1967
as Gen. Schiller
The Desperate Ones 1967
as Marek
- Alles zum Guten
Alles zum Guten 1967
Director
The Deadly Affair 1967
as Dieter Frey
- Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Die venezianischen Zwillinge 1966
as Zanetto und Tonio
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums 1966
as German Narrator
Return from the Ashes 1965
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
Topkapi 1964
as Walter Harper
The Reluctant Saint 1962
as Giuseppe
The Condemned of Altona 1962
as Franz von Gerlach
Five Finger Exercise 1962
as Walter
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1961
as Hamlet
Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
as Hans Rolfe
The Fifth Column 1960
Actor
- Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste 1959
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Judgment at Nuremberg 1959
as Otto Rolfe
- Die sechste Frau
Die sechste Frau 1959
as Henry Howard
- Die Bernauerin
Die Bernauerin 1958
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Children of the Mountains 1958
as Josef Ospel
The Young Lions 1958
as Capt. Hardenberg
- Der Meisterdieb
Der Meisterdieb 1958
Actor
The Last Ones Shall Be First 1957
as Lorenz Darrandt
Taxichauffeur Bänz 1957
as Toni Schellenberg
- Ein Herz kehrt heim
Ein Herz kehrt heim 1956
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz 1956
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
The Girl from Flanders 1956
as Alexander Haller
- Ripening Youth
Ripening Youth 1955
as Jürgen Sengebusch
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler 1955
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Children, Mother, and the General 1955
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
Credits from TMDB.