Maximilian Schell
Acting
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
Acting150
movieLes brigands
2015
Mr. Escher
movieJedermann Remixed
2011
Jedermann (archive footage)
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010
Self
movieBlack Flowers
2009
Jacob Krinsten
movieThe Brothers Bloom
2008
Diamond Dog
tvImperium der Päpste
2008
Sprecher
movieThe Shell Seekers
2007
Lawrence Sterne
movieDie Rosenkönigin
2007
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
movieDie Alpenklinik
2006
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
movieDie Liebe eines Priesters
2005
Father Christoph
movieThe Return of the Dancing Master
2004
Fernando Hereira
movieCoast to Coast
2004
Casimir
movieAlles Glück dieser Erde
2003
Xaver Schönborn
tvDer Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
movieDer Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002
Karl Steingraf
movieMy Sister Maria
2002
Himself
tvLiebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002
Franz Steininger
movieFestival in Cannes
2001
Viktor Kovner
I Love You, Baby
2000
Walter Ekland
tvJoan of Arc
1999
Brother Jean le Maistre
movieOn the Wings of Love
1999
Hochberg
tvBeckmann
1999
Self
movieVampires
1998
Cardinal Alba
movieDeep Impact
1998
Jason Lerner
movieLeft Luggage
1998
Mr. Silberschmidt
movieTelling Lies in America
1997
Dr. Istvan Jonas
Zwischen Rosen
1997
Carl Stern
movieThe Eighteenth Angel
1997
Father Simeon
movieThe Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
Cardinal Vittorio
tvKulturzeit
1995
self
movieLittle Odessa
1994
Arkady Shapira
tvAbraham
1994
Pharaoh / Pharao
movieAbraham
1993
Pharao
movieCandles in the Dark
1993
Colonel Arkush
movieJustice
1993
Isaak Kohler
movieA Far Off Place
1993
Col. Mopani Theron
movieStalin
1992
Vladimir Lenin
movieMiss Rose White
1992
Mordecai Weiss
tvRiverboat
1992
Self
movieLabyrinth
1991
The Filmmaker
tvYoung Catherine
1991
Frederick the Great
movieYou Can't Live Like That
1990
German Commentator
movieThe Freshman
1990
Larry London
tvWiseguy
1987
Amado Guzman
tvNachtcafé
1987
Self
tvPeter the Great
1986
Peter the Great
movieThe Assisi Underground
1985
Col. Müller
movieMarlene
1984
Himself
movieMan Under Suspicion
1984
Lawyer Landau
Goldene Kamera
1984
Self - Presenter
movieLes Îles
1983
Fabrice
movieThe Phantom of the Opera
1983
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
tvBernstein/Beethoven
1982
Self (commentary)
movieThe Chosen
1981
Professor David Malter
movieThe Diary of Anne Frank
1980
Otto Frank
movieThe Black Hole
1979
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
movieTogether?
1979
Giovanni
movieAvalanche Express
1979
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
moviePlayers
1979
Marco
movieTales from the Vienna Woods
1979
Theatre Visitor
movieEnd of the Game
1978
Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
movieJulia
1977
Johann
movieA Bridge Too Far
1977
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
movieCross of Iron
1977
Hauptmann Stransky
movieSt. Ives
1976
Dr. John Constable
movieThe Day That Shook the World
1975
Đuro Šarac
movieThe Man in the Glass Booth
1975
Arthur Goldman
movieThe Odessa File
1974
Eduard Roschmann
movieThe Pedestrian
1973
Andreas Giese
moviePope Joan
1972
Adrian
moviePaulina 1880
1972
Count Michele Cantarini
movieFirst Love
1970
Vater
movieSimón Bolívar
1969
Simón Bolívar
movieKrakatoa, East of Java
1969
Captain Chris Hanson
movieHeidi
1968
Richard Sessemann
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
Self - Guest
movieCounterpoint
1967
Gen. Schiller
movieThe Deadly Affair
1967
Dieter Frey
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966
Zanetto und Tonio
movieJohn F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966
German Narrator
movieReturn from the Ashes
1965
Stanislaw Pilgrin
tvDer seidene Schuh
1965
Don Rodrigo
movieDer seidene Schuh
1965
Don Rodrigo
movieTopkapi
1964
Walter Harper
movieThe Reluctant Saint
1962
Giuseppe
movieThe Condemned of Altona
1962
Franz von Gerlach
movieJudgment at Nuremberg
1961
Hans Rolfe
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
movieJudgment at Nuremberg
1959
Otto Rolfe
Die sechste Frau
1959
Henry Howard
Die Bernauerin
1958
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
movieChildren of the Mountains
1958
Josef Ospel
movieThe Young Lions
1958
Capt. Hardenberg
movieThe Last Ones Shall Be First
1957
Lorenz Darrandt
movieTaxichauffeur Bänz
1957
Toni Schellenberg
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
tvPlayhouse 90
1956
Otto Rolfe
movieDie Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
Dr. Oswald Hauser
movieThe Girl from Flanders
1956
Alexander Haller
Ripening Youth
1955
Jürgen Sengebusch
movieThe Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
movieChildren, Mother, and the General
1955
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Rose's Father
tvBambi
1948
Self - Laudation / Self
Directing8
movieMy Sister Maria
2002
Director
movieCandles in the Dark
1993
Director
movieMarlene
1984
Director
movieEnd of the Game
1978
Director
movieThe Pedestrian
1973
Director
movieFirst Love
1970
Director
Production7
movieMy Sister Maria
2002
Executive Producer
Die Föhnforscher
1985
Co-Producer
movieEnd of the Game
1978
Producer
movieThe Clown
1976
Producer
movieThe Pedestrian
1973
Producer
movieFirst Love
1970
Producer
Writing6
movieEnd of the Game
1978
Writer
movieThe Pedestrian
1973
Writer
movieTrotta
1971
Screenplay
movieFirst Love
1970
Writer
movieThe Castle
1968
Writer
Creator1
tvImperium der Päpste
2008
Creator