Maximilian Schell

Known for ActingBorn 1930-12-08Died 2014-02-01Vienna, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Die Liebe eines Priesters

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music

Labyrinth

Die Bernauerin

Children of the Mountains

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

I Love You, Baby

Zwischen Rosen

People's Choice Awards

Romy Award

Les Îles

Bambi

Paulina 1880

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Girl from Flanders

Der Fürst und das Mädchen

Abraham

Seitenblicke

Peter the Great

The Fifth Column

Die Föhnforscher

Bernstein/Beethoven

The Desperate Ones

Der seidene Schuh

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

Judgment at Nuremberg

The Reluctant Saint

V.I.P. Schaukel

Menschen bei Maischberger

Playhouse 90

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Coast to Coast

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

A Bridge Too Far

Abraham

The Shell Seekers

Cross of Iron

Marlene

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

Heut' abend

The Chosen

Taxichauffeur Bänz

The Pedestrian

Je später der Abend

My Sister Maria

The Condemned of Altona

The Brothers Bloom

The Rose Garden