Acting
Maximilian Schell
FR, DE, EN, CS cinema · 104 credits
Born
8 December 1930
Died
1 February 2014 (aged 83)
Birthplace
Vienna, 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.
Known for
Filmography
Les brigands
as Mr. Escher
Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)
The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond Dog
Darkness
Actor
Black Flowers
as Jacob Krinsten
The Shell Seekers
as Lawrence Sterne
Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Die Alpenklinik
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Die Liebe eines Priesters
as Father Christoph
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando Hereira
Coast to Coast
as Casimir
Alles Glück dieser Erde
as Xaver Schönborn
My Sister Maria
as Himself, Director, Executive Producer
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Karl Steingraf
Festival in Cannes
as Viktor Kovner
I Love You, Baby
as Walter Ekland
Just Messing About
as Poser
On the Wings of Love
as Hochberg
Deep Impact
as Jason Lerner
Vampires
as Cardinal Alba
Left Luggage
as Mr. Silberschmidt
The Eighteenth Angel
as Father Simeon
Telling Lies in America
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
Zwischen Rosen
1997
Zwischen Rosen
as Carl Stern
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
as Cardinal Vittorio
Little Odessa
as Arkady Shapira
Abraham
as Pharao
Justice
as Isaak Kohler
A Far Off Place
as Col. Mopani Theron
Candles in the Dark
as Colonel Arkush, Director
Stalin
as Vladimir Lenin
Miss Rose White
as Mordecai Weiss
Labyrinth
as The Filmmaker
You Can't Live Like That
as German Commentator
The Freshman
as Larry London
The Rose Garden
as Aaron
The Assisi Underground
as Col. Müller
Man Under Suspicion
as Lawyer Landau
Marlene
as Himself, Director
Les Îles
as Fabrice
The Phantom of the Opera
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
The Chosen
as Professor David Malter
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
Avalanche Express
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
The Black Hole
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Theatre Visitor, Producer, Writer, Director
Together?
as Giovanni
Players
as Marco
Cross of Iron
as Hauptmann Stransky
A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Julia
as Johann
St. Ives
as Dr. John Constable
The Clown
Producer
The Man in the Glass Booth
as Arthur Goldman
The Day That Shook the World
as Đuro Šarac
End of the Game
as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
The Odessa File
as Eduard Roschmann
The Pedestrian
as Andreas Giese, Director, Writer, Producer
Pope Joan
as Adrian
Paulina 1880
as Count Michele Cantarini
Trotta
Screenplay
First Love
as Vater, Director, Producer, Writer
Krakatoa, East of Java
as Captain Chris Hanson
Simón Bolívar
as Simón Bolívar
The Castle
as K, Writer
Heidi
as Richard Sessemann
The Deadly Affair
as Dieter Frey
Counterpoint
as Gen. Schiller
The Desperate Ones
as Marek
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
as Zanetto und Tonio
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as German Narrator
Return from the Ashes
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
Topkapi
as Walter Harper
The Reluctant Saint
as Giuseppe
The Condemned of Altona
as Franz von Gerlach
Five Finger Exercise
as Walter
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Hans Rolfe
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Die sechste Frau
1959
Die sechste Frau
as Henry Howard
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Otto Rolfe
The Young Lions
as Capt. Hardenberg
Die Bernauerin
1958
Die Bernauerin
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Children of the Mountains
as Josef Ospel
The Last Ones Shall Be First
as Lorenz Darrandt
Taxichauffeur Bänz
as Toni Schellenberg
The Girl from Flanders
as Alexander Haller
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956
Ein Herz kehrt heim
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Children, Mother, and the General
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
Reifende Jugend
1955
Ripening Youth
as Jürgen Sengebusch