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

Judgment at Nuremberg

Abraham

Cross of Iron

A Bridge Too Far

The Chosen

The Reluctant Saint

The Fifth Column

The Girl from Flanders

Paulina 1880

Acting

1979

Avalanche Express

as

Colonel Nikolai Bunin

2000

I Love You, Baby

as

Walter Ekland

1961

Judgment at Nuremberg

as

Hans Rolfe

1985

To Be Hamlet

as

Self

1993

Abraham

as

Pharao

1977

Cross of Iron

as

Hauptmann Stransky

1983

Les Îles

as

Fabrice

1964

Topkapi

as

Walter Harper

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as

General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich

1974

The Odessa File

as

Eduard Roschmann

2008

The Brothers Bloom

as

Diamond Dog

1998

Deep Impact

as

Jason Lerner

2007

The Shell Seekers

as

Lawrence Sterne

1981

The Chosen

as

Professor David Malter

1979

The Black Hole

as

Dr. Hans Reinhardt

1998

Vampires

as

Cardinal Alba

1997

The Eighteenth Angel

as

Father Simeon

1958

The Young Lions

as

Capt. Hardenberg

1977

Julia

as

Johann

1973

The Pedestrian

as

Andreas Giese

1967

The Deadly Affair

as

Dieter Frey

1976

St. Ives

as

Dr. John Constable

1975

The Man in the Glass Booth

as

Arthur Goldman

1968

Krakatoa, East of Java

as

Captain Chris Hanson

1999

On the Wings of Love

as

Hochberg

1998

Left Luggage

as

Mr. Silberschmidt

1965

Return from the Ashes

as

Stanislaw Pilgrin

1980

The Diary of Anne Frank

as

Otto Frank

1992

Stalin

as

Vladimir Lenin

2009

Darkness

as

2001

Festival in Cannes

as

Viktor Kovner

1962

The Reluctant Saint

as

Giuseppe

2006

House of the Sleeping Beauties

as

Kogi

2007

Die Rosenkönigin

as

Karl Friedrich Weidemann

1960

The Fifth Column

as

2004

The Return of the Dancing Master

as

Fernando Hereira

1979

Tales from the Vienna Woods

as

Theatre Visitor

1962

The Condemned of Altona

as

Franz von Gerlach

1967

Counterpoint

as

Gen. Schiller

1979

Together?

as

Giovanni

2002

My Sister Maria

as

Himself

1968

The Castle

as

K

1970

First Love

as

Vater

1984

Man Under Suspicion

as

Lawyer Landau

1993

Justice

as

Isaak Kohler

1969

Simon Bolivar

as

Simón Bolívar

1991

Why Havel?

as

1979

Players

as

Marco

1985

The Assisi Underground

as

Col. Müller

1962

Five Finger Exercise

as

Walter

1989

The Rose Garden

as

Aaron

2005

Die Liebe eines Priesters

as

Father Christoph

2002

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

as

Karl Steingraf

1955

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

as

Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises

1992

Miss Rose White

as

Mordecai Weiss

1955

Children, Mother, and the General

as

Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht

1957

The Last Ones Shall Be First

as

Lorenz Darrandt

1968

Heidi

as

Richard Sessemann

1956

The Girl from Flanders

as

Alexander Haller

1956

Ein Herz kehrt heim

as

Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn

1996

The Vampyre Wars

as

Rodan

2009

Black Flowers

as

Jacob Krinsten

1961

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

as

Hamlet

2015

Les brigands

as

Mr. Escher

1975

The Day That Shook the World

as

Đuro Šarac

1965

Der seidene Schuh

as

Don Rodrigo

1956

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

as

Dr. Oswald Hauser

1958

Die Bernauerin

as

Herzog Albrecht von Bayern

1966

Die venezianischen Zwillinge

as

Zanetto und Tonio

1997

Telling Lies in America

as

Dr. Istvan Jonas

1958

Children of the Mountains

as

Josef Ospel

1955

Ripening Youth

as

Jürgen Sengebusch

2003

Alles Glück dieser Erde

as

Xaver Schönborn

1993

A Far Off Place

as

Col. Mopani Theron

2006

Die Alpenklinik

as

Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf

1983

The Phantom of the Opera

as

Sandor Korvin/Phantom

1993

Candles in the Dark

as

Colonel Arkush

1966

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

as

German Narrator

1990

You Can't Live Like That

as

German Commentator

1991

Labyrint

as

The Filmmaker

1957

Taxichauffeur Bänz

as

Toni Schellenberg

1972

Pope Joan

as

Adrian

1994

Little Odessa

as

Arkady Shapira

1984

Marlene

as

Himself

1990

The Freshman

as

Larry London

1997

Zwischen Rosen

as

Carl Stern

1959

Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste

as

Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow

1959

Die sechste Frau

as

Henry Howard

1996

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

as

Cardinal Vittorio

1967

The Desperate Ones

as

Marek

1958

Der Meisterdieb

as

2011

Jedermann Remixed

as

Jedermann (archive footage)

2007

Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki

as

Himself

2004

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

as

Self

1972

Paulina 1880

as

Count Michele Cantarini

2010

Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell

as

Self

2004

Coast to Coast

as

Casimir

1959

Judgment at Nuremberg

as

Otto Rolfe

2000

Just Messing About

as

Poser

Showgeschichten

as

self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as

Rose's Father

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as

Peter the Great

as

Peter the Great

The Oscars

as

Self

The Three Musketeers

as

Der Fürst und das Mädchen

as

Stars in the Ring

as

Self

Die Harald Schmidt Show

as

Self

Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften

as

Franz Steininger

Der Fürst und das Mädchen

as

Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald

Imperium der Päpste

as

Sprecher

Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski

as

Self

Playhouse 90

as

Otto Rolfe

Joan of Arc

as

Brother Jean le Maistre

Young Catherine

as

Frederick the Great

V.I.P. Schaukel

as

Self

Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz

as

Self

German Film Award

as

Self

Romy Award

as

Self

Goldene Kamera

as

Self - Presenter

Bambi

as

Self - Laudation

Bambi

as

Self

Bavarian Film Awards

as

Self

Wiseguy

as

Amado Guzman

Servus, Hansi Hinterseer

as

Self

Menschen bei Maischberger

as

Self

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

as

Self

alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio

as

Self

Markus Lanz

as

Self

Kölner Treff

as

Self

The Dick Cavett Show

as

Self - Guest

Lebens-Künstler

as

Self

NDR Talk Show

as

Self

Beckmann

as

Self

Kulturplatz

as

Self

Je später der Abend

as

Self

G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten

as

Self

Abraham

as

Pharaoh

Gero von Boehm begegnet...

as

Self

Riverboat

as

Self

Nachtcafé

as

Self

Seitenblicke

as

self

Kulturzeit

as

self

Heut' abend

as

Self

Semperopernball

as

Self

Abraham

as

Pharao

Production

2002

My Sister Maria

as

1979

Tales from the Vienna Woods

as

1985

Die Föhnforscher

as

1970

First Love

as

1973

The Pedestrian

as

1978

End of the Game

as

1976

The Clown

as

Crew

Directing

1984

Marlene

as

1973

The Pedestrian

as

1978

End of the Game

as

2002

My Sister Maria

as

1979

Tales from the Vienna Woods

as

1970

First Love

as

1993

Candles in the Dark

as

1967

Alles zum Guten

as