Maximilian Schell

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

147

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-12-08

Day of death

2014-02-01 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

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

    Markus Lanz

  • Die Harald Schmidt Show

    Die Harald Schmidt Show

  • Kulturplatz

    Kulturplatz

  • NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

  • The Johannes B. Kerner Show

    The Johannes B. Kerner Show

  • Riverboat

    Riverboat

  • Bambi

    Bambi

  • Bambi

    Bambi

  • Nachtcafé

    Nachtcafé

  • Kulturzeit

    Kulturzeit

  • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

  • Beckmann

    Beckmann

  • Kölner Treff

    Kölner Treff

  • The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

  • Menschen bei Maischberger

    Menschen bei Maischberger

  • Wiseguy

    Wiseguy

  • alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio

    alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio

  • German Film Award

    German Film Award

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Playhouse 90

    Playhouse 90

  • Deep Impact

    Deep Impact

  • Romy Award

    Romy Award

  • Heut' abend

    Heut' abend

  • Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

  • Goldene Kamera

    Goldene Kamera

  • Seitenblicke

    Seitenblicke

  • Bavarian Film Awards

    Bavarian Film Awards

  • Stars in the Ring

    Stars in the Ring

  • V.I.P. Schaukel

    V.I.P. Schaukel

  • Judgment at Nuremberg

    Judgment at Nuremberg

  • Cross of Iron

    Cross of Iron

  • The Deadly Affair

    The Deadly Affair

  • Man Under Suspicion

    Man Under Suspicion

  • A Bridge Too Far

    A Bridge Too Far

  • G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten

    G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten

  • Showgeschichten

    Showgeschichten

  • Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Tales from the Vienna Woods

  • Gero von Boehm begegnet...

    Gero von Boehm begegnet...

  • Alles Glück dieser Erde

    Alles Glück dieser Erde

  • The Reluctant Saint

    The Reluctant Saint

  • Topkapi

    Topkapi

  • Die Rosenkönigin

    Die Rosenkönigin

  • The Desperate Ones

    The Desperate Ones

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • The Fifth Column

    The Fifth Column

  • Taxichauffeur Bänz

    Taxichauffeur Bänz

  • The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

    The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

  • Ripening Youth

    Ripening Youth

  • The Phantom of the Opera

    The Phantom of the Opera

  • Judgment at Nuremberg

    Judgment at Nuremberg

  • Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

  • Black Flowers

    Black Flowers

  • Children of the Mountains

    Children of the Mountains

  • Together?

    Together?

  • To Be Hamlet

    To Be Hamlet

  • Lebens-Künstler

    Lebens-Künstler

  • Simon Bolivar

    Simon Bolivar

  • Semperopernball

    Semperopernball

  • The Rose Garden

    The Rose Garden

  • Little Odessa

    Little Odessa

  • A Far Off Place

    A Far Off Place

  • Les Îles

    Les Îles

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • The Brothers Bloom

    The Brothers Bloom

  • Stalin

    Stalin

  • Je später der Abend

    Je später der Abend

  • Avalanche Express

    Avalanche Express

  • Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

    Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

  • Darkness

    Darkness

  • Peter the Great

    Peter the Great

  • House of the Sleeping Beauties

    House of the Sleeping Beauties

  • Vampires

    Vampires

  • St. Ives

    St. Ives

  • Marlene

    Marlene

  • Return from the Ashes

    Return from the Ashes

  • Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste

    Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste

  • The Eighteenth Angel

    The Eighteenth Angel

  • Der Fürst und das Mädchen

    Der Fürst und das Mädchen

  • Der Fürst und das Mädchen

    Der Fürst und das Mädchen

  • The Return of the Dancing Master

    The Return of the Dancing Master

  • The Assisi Underground

    The Assisi Underground

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Abraham

    Abraham

  • Miss Rose White

    Miss Rose White

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

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

  • The Odessa File

    The Odessa File

  • The Black Hole

    The Black Hole

  • Telling Lies in America

    Telling Lies in America

  • Die Liebe eines Priesters

    Die Liebe eines Priesters

  • Die sechste Frau

    Die sechste Frau

  • Counterpoint

    Counterpoint

  • Coast to Coast

    Coast to Coast

  • Why Havel?

    Why Havel?

  • Justice

    Justice

  • Der seidene Schuh

    Der seidene Schuh

  • Heidi

    Heidi

  • Five Finger Exercise

    Five Finger Exercise

  • The Freshman

    The Freshman

  • The Man in the Glass Booth

    The Man in the Glass Booth

  • Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski

    Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski

  • Servus, Hansi Hinterseer

    Servus, Hansi Hinterseer

  • Candles in the Dark

    Candles in the Dark

  • Julia

    Julia

  • The Condemned of Altona

    The Condemned of Altona

  • Young Catherine

    Young Catherine

  • Ein Herz kehrt heim

    Ein Herz kehrt heim

  • Players

    Players

  • Left Luggage

    Left Luggage

  • I Love You, Baby

    I Love You, Baby

  • On the Wings of Love

    On the Wings of Love

  • Jedermann Remixed

    Jedermann Remixed

  • The Young Lions

    The Young Lions

  • Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz

    Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz

  • The Pedestrian

    The Pedestrian

  • Die venezianischen Zwillinge

    Die venezianischen Zwillinge

  • The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

  • The Girl from Flanders

    The Girl from Flanders

  • The Day That Shook the World

    The Day That Shook the World

  • The Castle

    The Castle

  • The Chosen

    The Chosen

  • The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

    The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

  • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

  • Children, Mother, and the General

    Children, Mother, and the General

  • The Diary of Anne Frank

    The Diary of Anne Frank

  • Krakatoa, East of Java

    Krakatoa, East of Java

  • Zwischen Rosen

    Zwischen Rosen

  • The Vampyre Wars

    The Vampyre Wars

  • Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften

    Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften

  • In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

    In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

  • Festival in Cannes

    Festival in Cannes

  • Die Alpenklinik

    Die Alpenklinik

  • Der Meisterdieb

    Der Meisterdieb

  • First Love

    First Love

  • The Shell Seekers

    The Shell Seekers

  • Imperium der Päpste

    Imperium der Päpste

  • Just Messing About

    Just Messing About

  • Pope Joan

    Pope Joan

  • My Sister Maria

    My Sister Maria

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

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

  • Paulina 1880

    Paulina 1880

  • Labyrint

    Labyrint

  • You Can't Live Like That

    You Can't Live Like That

  • Les brigands

    Les brigands

  • The Last Ones Shall Be First

    The Last Ones Shall Be First

  • Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell

    Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell

  • Die Bernauerin

    Die Bernauerin

  • Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

    Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch