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