Maximilian Schell
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.
150 acting credits · 8 directing credits
Acting · 150
Markus Lanz
2008
NDR Talk Show
1979
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Kölner Treff
1976
Bambi
1948
Riverboat
1992
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
The Oscars
1953
Wiseguy
1987
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
People's Choice Awards
1975
Nachtcafé
1987
Beckmann
1999
German Film Award
1951
Playhouse 90
1956
Goldene Kamera
1984
Kulturzeit
1995
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
Kulturplatz
2004
Romy Award
1990
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
Deep Impact
1998
Seitenblicke
1987
Heut' abend
1980
Stars in the Ring
1959
A Bridge Too Far
1977
Showgeschichten
1986
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Vampires
1998
Semperopernball
2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Joan of Arc
1999
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
Peter the Great
1986
Je später der Abend
1973
Cross of Iron
1977
Abraham
1994
The Freshman
1990
Little Odessa
1994
Julia
1977
The Black Hole
1979
Young Catherine
1991
Lebens-Künstler
1995
Topkapi
1964
A Far Off Place
1993
Stalin
1992
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
The Brothers Bloom
2008
The Young Lions
1958
Abraham
1993
The Odessa File
1974
Telling Lies in America
1997
Krakatoa, East of Java
1969
The Chosen
1981
Heidi
1968
St. Ives
1976
The Man in the Glass Booth
1975
The Deadly Affair
1967
Avalanche Express
1979
Sternstunde Kunst
1998
Coast to Coast
2004
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
2004
The Three Musketeers
1968
Pope Joan
1972
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
2007
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
2010
Simón Bolívar
1969
The Reluctant Saint
1962
Counterpoint
1967
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002
Justice
1993
Festival in Cannes
2001
The Phantom of the Opera
1983
The Day That Shook the World
1975
House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006
Together?
1979
The Assisi Underground
1985
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
The Shell Seekers
2007
The Rose Garden
1989
Left Luggage
1998
Black Flowers
2009
Candles in the Dark
1993
The Condemned of Altona
1962
The Eighteenth Angel
1997
To Be Hamlet
1985
Jedermann Remixed
2011
Der seidene Schuh
1965
I Love You, Baby
2000
End of the Game
1978
Players
1979
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959
Darkness
2009
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
The Castle
1968
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
First Love
1970
Return from the Ashes
1965
Bernstein/Beethoven
1982
The Vampyre Wars
1996
The Fifth Column
1960
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959
On the Wings of Love
1999
Paulina 1880
1972
You Can't Live Like That
1990
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961
Les Îles
1983
The Desperate Ones
1967
Imperium der Päpste
2008
Les brigands
2015
Der seidene Schuh
1965
Five Finger Exercise
1962
Marlene
1984
Just Messing About
2000
Die Rosenkönigin
2007
Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005
Man Under Suspicion
1984
Miss Rose White
1992
The Pedestrian
1973
Die Alpenklinik
2006
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
Die Bernauerin
1958
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966
My Sister Maria
2002
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007
Why Havel?
1991
Children of the Mountains
1958
The Girl from Flanders
1956
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
Labyrinth
1991
Die sechste Frau
1959
Children, Mother, and the General
1955
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010
Zwischen Rosen
1997
Der Meisterdieb
1958
The Last Ones Shall Be First
1957
Ripening Youth
1955
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966
Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957
Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003