1930-12-08 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.
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Les brigands | Mr. Escher | 2015-02-26 |
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Jedermann Remixed | Jedermann (archive footage) | 2011-07-31 |
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Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell | Self | 2010-12-03 |
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T.M.A. | 2009-07-07 | |
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Flores Negras | Jacob Krinsten | 2009-09-18 |
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The Brothers Bloom | Diamond Dog | 2008-09-09 |
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Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki | Himself | 2007-06-11 |
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Die Rosenkönigin | Karl Friedrich Weidemann | 2007-10-05 |
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The Shell Seekers | Lawrence Sterne | 2007-10-18 |
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Die Alpenklinik | Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf | 2006-05-01 |
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Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen | Kogi | 2006-11-02 |
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Die Liebe eines Priesters | Father Christoph | 2005-05-20 |
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In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell | Self | 2004-09-07 |
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Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers | Fernando Hereira | 2004-04-08 |
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Coast to Coast | Casimir | 2004-04-03 |
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Alles Glück dieser Erde | Xaver Schönborn | 2003-12-21 |
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Meine Schwester Maria | Himself | 2002-03-01 |
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Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch | Karl Steingraf | 2002-11-08 |
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Festival in Cannes | Viktor Kovner | 2001-11-03 |
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Fisimatenten | Poser | 2000-01-06 |
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I Love You, Baby | Walter Ekland | 2000-04-20 |
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Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel... | Hochberg | 1999-04-08 |
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Left Luggage | Mr. Silberschmidt | 1998-03-30 |
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Vampires | Cardinal Alba | 1998-10-30 |
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Deep Impact | Jason Lerner | 1998-05-08 |
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The Eighteenth Angel | Father Simeon | 1997-01-01 |
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Telling Lies in America | Dr. Istvan Jonas | 1997-08-02 |
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Zwischen Rosen | Carl Stern | 1997-02-18 |
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Claudio Abbado: Die Stille nach der Musik | Self | 1996-01-01 |
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The Vampyre Wars | Rodan | 1996-01-01 |
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years | Cardinal Vittorio | 1996-02-11 |
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Little Odessa | Arkady Shapira | 1994-10-28 |
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Abraham | Pharao | 1993-12-12 |
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Justiz | Isaak Kohler | 1993-10-14 |
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Candles in the Dark | Colonel Arkush | 1993-12-03 |
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A Far Off Place | Col. Mopani Theron | 1993-03-12 |
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Miss Rose White | Mordecai Weiss | 1992-04-26 |
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Stalin | Vladimir Lenin | 1992-11-21 |
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Labyrint | The Filmmaker | 1991-11-27 |
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Proč Havel? | 1991-10-01 | |
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Так жить нельзя | German Commentator | 1990-09-01 |
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The Freshman | Larry London | 1990-07-20 |
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The Rose Garden | Aaron | 1989-12-22 |
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The Assisi Underground | Col. Müller | 1985-05-03 |
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To Be Hamlet | Self | 1985-01-19 |
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Marlene | Himself | 1984-10-01 |
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Morgen in Alabama | Lawyer Landau | 1984-04-06 |
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Les Îles | Fabrice | 1983-03-16 |
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The Phantom of the Opera | Sandor Korvin/Phantom | 1983-01-29 |
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The Chosen | Professor David Malter | 1981-08-20 |
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The Diary of Anne Frank | Otto Frank | 1980-11-17 |
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Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald | Theatre Visitor | 1979-05-08 |
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Avalanche Express | Colonel Nikolai Bunin | 1979-09-27 |
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Amo non amo | Giovanni | 1979-12-14 |
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The Black Hole | Dr. Hans Reinhardt | 1979-12-18 |
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Players | Marco | 1979-06-08 |
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Der Richter und sein Henker | Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited) | 1978-05-05 |
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Cross of Iron | Hauptmann Stransky | 1977-01-29 |
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A Bridge Too Far | General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich | 1977-06-15 |
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Julia | Johann | 1977-10-01 |
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St. Ives | Dr. John Constable | 1976-02-24 |
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Sarajevski atentat | Đuro Šarac | 1975-10-31 |
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The Man in the Glass Booth | Arthur Goldman | 1975-01-27 |
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The Odessa File | Eduard Roschmann | 1974-10-17 |
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Der Fußgänger | Andreas Giese | 1973-09-05 |
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Pope Joan | Adrian | 1972-08-16 |
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Paulina 1880 | Count Michele Cantarini | 1972-06-09 |
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Erste Liebe | Vater | 1970-10-07 |
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Krakatoa, East of Java | Captain Chris Hanson | 1969-03-17 |
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Simón Bolívar | Simón Bolívar | 1969-09-12 |
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Heidi | Richard Sessemann | 1968-11-01 |
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Das Schloß | K | 1968-08-30 |
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The Desperate Ones | Marek | 1967-07-26 |
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Counterpoint | Gen. Schiller | 1967-12-22 |
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The Deadly Affair | Dieter Frey | 1967-01-26 |
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John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums | German Narrator | 1966-04-10 |
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Die venezianischen Zwillinge | Zanetto und Tonio | 1966-12-26 |
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Der seidene Schuh | Don Rodrigo | 1965-04-10 |
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Return from the Ashes | Stanislaw Pilgrin | 1965-11-16 |
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Topkapi | Walter Harper | 1964-09-02 |
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Five Finger Exercise | Walter | 1962-04-19 |
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The Reluctant Saint | Giuseppe | 1962-11-02 |
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I sequestrati di Altona | Franz von Gerlach | 1962-10-30 |
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Judgment at Nuremberg | Hans Rolfe | 1961-12-18 |
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Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark | Hamlet | 1961-12-25 |
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The Fifth Column | 1960-01-29 | |
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Die sechste Frau | Henry Howard | 1959-01-22 |
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Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste | Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow | 1959-06-29 |
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Judgment at Nuremberg | Otto Rolfe | 1959-04-16 |
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Der Meisterdieb | 1958-01-15 | |
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Kinder der Berge | Josef Ospel | 1958-10-15 |
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The Young Lions | Capt. Hardenberg | 1958-04-02 |
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Die Bernauerin | Herzog Albrecht von Bayern | 1958-12-11 |
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Die Letzten werden die Ersten sein | Lorenz Darrandt | 1957-07-03 |
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Taxichauffeur Bänz | Toni Schellenberg | 1957-06-25 |
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Ein Mädchen aus Flandern | Alexander Haller | 1956-02-16 |
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Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz | Dr. Oswald Hauser | 1956-03-28 |
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Ein Herz kehrt heim | Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn | 1956-10-25 |
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Reifende Jugend | Jürgen Sengebusch | 1955-09-14 |
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Der 20. Juli | Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises | 1955-06-21 |
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Kinder, Mütter und ein General | Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht | 1955-03-04 |
