Maximilian Schell
Born: 1930-12-08 in Vienna, Austria
Died: 2014-02-01
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2015
- Les brigands as Mr. Escher
2011
- Jedermann Remixed as Jedermann (archive footage)
2010
2009
- Black Flowers as Jacob Krinsten
- Darkness
2008
- Markus Lanz as Self
- The Brothers Bloom as Diamond Dog
- Imperium der Päpste as Sprecher
2007
- Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz as Self
- The Shell Seekers as Lawrence Sterne
- Die Rosenkönigin as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
- Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki as Himself
2006
- Semperopernball as Self
- House of the Sleeping Beauties as Kogi
- Die Alpenklinik as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2005
- G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten as Self
- Die Liebe eines Priesters as Father Christoph
2004
- Kulturplatz as Self
- Servus, Hansi Hinterseer as Self
- Coast to Coast as Casimir
- The Return of the Dancing Master as Fernando Hereira
- In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell as Self
2003
- Menschen bei Maischberger as Self
- Der Fürst und das Mädchen
- Alles Glück dieser Erde as Xaver Schönborn
2002
- Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften as Franz Steininger
- Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch as Karl Steingraf
- My Sister Maria as Himself
2001
- Festival in Cannes as Viktor Kovner
2000
- Just Messing About as Poser
- I Love You, Baby as Walter Ekland
1999
- Beckmann as Self
- Joan of Arc as Brother Jean le Maistre
- On the Wings of Love as Hochberg
1998
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
- Sternstunde Kunst as Self
- Deep Impact as Jason Lerner
- Vampires as Cardinal Alba
- Left Luggage as Mr. Silberschmidt
1997
- Telling Lies in America as Dr. Istvan Jonas
- The Eighteenth Angel as Father Simeon
- Zwischen Rosen as Carl Stern
1996
- The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years as Cardinal Vittorio
- The Vampyre Wars as Rodan
- Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music as Self
1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- Kulturzeit as self
- Lebens-Künstler as Self
1994
- alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio as Self
- Abraham as Pharaoh
- Little Odessa as Arkady Shapira
1993
- Abraham as Pharao
- A Far Off Place as Col. Mopani Theron
- Candles in the Dark as Colonel Arkush
- Justice as Isaak Kohler
1992
- Riverboat as Self
- Stalin as Vladimir Lenin
- Miss Rose White as Mordecai Weiss
1991
- Young Catherine as Frederick the Great
- Why Havel?
- Labyrinth as The Filmmaker
1990
- Romy Award as Self
- The Freshman as Larry London
- You Can't Live Like That as German Commentator
1989
- The Rose Garden as Aaron
1987
- Nachtcafé as Self
- Wiseguy as Amado Guzman
- Seitenblicke as self
1986
- Showgeschichten as self
- Peter the Great as Peter the Great
1985
- To Be Hamlet as Self
- Die Föhnforscher ... (Co-Producer)
- The Assisi Underground as Col. Müller
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self - Presenter
- Marlene as Himself
- Man Under Suspicion as Lawyer Landau
1983
- The Phantom of the Opera as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
- Les Îles as Fabrice
1982
- Bernstein/Beethoven as Self (commentary)
1981
- The Chosen as Professor David Malter
1980
- Heut' abend as Self
- The Diary of Anne Frank as Otto Frank
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
- Bavarian Film Awards as Self
- The Black Hole as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
- Avalanche Express as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
- Tales from the Vienna Woods as Theatre Visitor
- Together? as Giovanni
- Players as Marco
1977
- A Bridge Too Far as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
- Cross of Iron as Hauptmann Stransky
- Julia as Johann
1976
- Kölner Treff as Self
- St. Ives as Dr. John Constable
- The Clown ... (Producer)
1975
- People's Choice Awards as Self
- The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman
- End of the Game as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
- The Day That Shook the World as Đuro Šarac
1974
- The Odessa File as Eduard Roschmann
1973
- Je später der Abend as Self
- The Pedestrian as Andreas Giese
1972
- Pope Joan as Adrian
- Paulina 1880 as Count Michele Cantarini
1971
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- Trotta ... (Screenplay)
1970
- First Love as Vater
1969
- Krakatoa, East of Java as Captain Chris Hanson
- Simón Bolívar as Simón Bolívar
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Heidi as Richard Sessemann
- The Castle as K
1967
- Counterpoint as Gen. Schiller
- The Deadly Affair as Dieter Frey
- The Desperate Ones as Marek
- Alles zum Guten ... (Director)
1966
- Die venezianischen Zwillinge as Zanetto und Tonio
- John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums as German Narrator
1965
- Der seidene Schuh as Don Rodrigo
- Return from the Ashes as Stanislaw Pilgrin
1964
- Topkapi as Walter Harper
1962
- The Condemned of Altona as Franz von Gerlach
- The Reluctant Saint as Giuseppe
- Five Finger Exercise as Walter
1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark as Hamlet
1960
1959
- Stars in the Ring as Self
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Otto Rolfe
- Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
- Die sechste Frau as Henry Howard
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- The Young Lions as Capt. Hardenberg
- Der Meisterdieb
- Die Bernauerin as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
- Children of the Mountains as Josef Ospel
1957
- The Last Ones Shall Be First as Lorenz Darrandt
- Taxichauffeur Bänz as Toni Schellenberg
1956
- Playhouse 90 as Otto Rolfe
- Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz as Dr. Oswald Hauser
- The Girl from Flanders as Alexander Haller
- Ein Herz kehrt heim as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
1955
- The Plot to Assassinate Hitler as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
- Children, Mother, and the General as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
- Ripening Youth as Jürgen Sengebusch
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1951
- German Film Award as Self
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Rose's Father
1948
- Bambi as Self - Laudation