Maximilian Schell
Known for: 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.
Filmography
Series
Markus Lanz
Self
2008
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Series
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995
Series
Kölner Treff
Self
1976
Series
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Bambi
Self - Laudation
1948
Series
Bambi
Self
1948
Romy Award
Self
1990
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self
1998
Series
Riverboat
Self
1992
Series
People's Choice Awards
Self
1975
Film
Deep Impact
Jason Lerner
1998
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
Self
2005
Series
Wiseguy
Amado Guzman
1987
German Film Award
Self
1951
Series
Nachtcafé
Self
1987
Series
Beckmann
Self
1999
Goldene Kamera
Self - Presenter
1984
Series
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Menschen bei Maischberger
Self
2003
Series
Kulturzeit
self
1995
Series
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Self
1994
Series
Playhouse 90
Otto Rolfe
1956
Series
Kulturplatz
Self
2004
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
1979
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
Film
A Bridge Too Far
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
1977
Series
Stars in the Ring
Self
1959
Series
Heut' abend
Self
1980
Sternstunde Kunst
Self
1998
Series
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
Series
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
2003
Seitenblicke
self
1987
Film
Judgment at Nuremberg
Hans Rolfe
1961
Film
The Black Hole
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
1979
Film
Vampires
Cardinal Alba
1998
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
2002
Semperopernball
Self
2006
Series
Joan of Arc
Brother Jean le Maistre
1999
Lebens-Künstler
Self
1995
Film
Cross of Iron
Hauptmann Stransky
1977
Series
Peter the Great
Peter the Great
1986
Showgeschichten
self
1986
Je später der Abend
Self
1973
Film
The Brothers Bloom
Diamond Dog
2008
Film
The Young Lions
Capt. Hardenberg
1958
Film
Abraham
Pharao
1993
Film
The Freshman
Larry London
1990
Series
Abraham
Pharaoh
1994
Series
Abraham
Pharao
1994
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rose's Father
1951
Film
First Love
Vater
1970
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
Self
2010
Film
Counterpoint
Gen. Schiller
1967
Film
St. Ives
Dr. John Constable
1976
Film
Little Odessa
Arkady Shapira
1994
Film
The Odessa File
Eduard Roschmann
1974
Film
Topkapi
Walter Harper
1964
Film
Julia
Johann
1977
Series
Young Catherine
Frederick the Great
1991
Series
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Franz Steininger
2002
Film
The Man in the Glass Booth
Arthur Goldman
1975
Series
Der seidene Schuh
Don Rodrigo
1965
Film
To Be Hamlet
Self
1985
Film
Heidi
Richard Sessemann
1968
Film
A Far Off Place
Col. Mopani Theron
1993
Film
Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
1992
Film
Krakatoa, East of Java
Captain Chris Hanson
1969
Film
Avalanche Express
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
1979
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
Self
2004
Film
The Deadly Affair
Dieter Frey
1967
Film
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Kogi
2006
Film
The Chosen
Professor David Malter
1981
Film
The Shell Seekers
Lawrence Sterne
2007
Series
Bernstein/Beethoven
Self (commentary)
1982
Film
Telling Lies in America
Dr. Istvan Jonas
1997
Zwischen Rosen
Carl Stern
1997
Film
Pope Joan
Adrian
1972
Film
Just Messing About
Poser
2000
Film
Paulina 1880
Count Michele Cantarini
1972
Film
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Xaver Schönborn
2003
Film
The Condemned of Altona
Franz von Gerlach
1962
Film
Coast to Coast
Casimir
2004
Film
The Phantom of the Opera
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
1983
Film
Left Luggage
Mr. Silberschmidt
1998
Film
Marlene
Himself
1984
Film
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Cardinal Vittorio
1996
Film
Black Flowers
Jacob Krinsten
2009
Film
End of the Game
Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
1975
Film
The Assisi Underground
Col. Müller
1985
Film
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
1980
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
Self
2007
Film
The Return of the Dancing Master
Fernando Hereira
2004
Film
The Eighteenth Angel
Father Simeon
1997
Film
Darkness
2009
Film
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Theatre Visitor
1979
Film
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Karl Steingraf
2002
Der Meisterdieb
1958
Film
On the Wings of Love
Hochberg
1999
Film
Children, Mother, and the General
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
1955
Film
You Can't Live Like That
German Commentator
1990
Film
The Day That Shook the World
Đuro Šarac
1975
Film
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
1969
Film
My Sister Maria
Himself
2002
Film
Players
Marco
1979
Film
Candles in the Dark
Colonel Arkush
1993
Film
The Rose Garden
Aaron
1989
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Zanetto und Tonio
1966
Film
Return from the Ashes
Stanislaw Pilgrin
1965
Film
Five Finger Exercise
Walter
1962
Film
Festival in Cannes
Viktor Kovner
2001
Film
Die Rosenkönigin
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
2007
Film
Judgment at Nuremberg
Otto Rolfe
1959
Film
Justice
Isaak Kohler
1993
Film
Together?
Giovanni
1979
Film
Les brigands
Mr. Escher
2015
Film
The Reluctant Saint
Giuseppe
1962
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Self
2010
Film
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Hamlet
1961
Film
The Castle
K
1968
Film
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
German Narrator
1966
Film
The Fifth Column
1960
Film
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
1955
Film
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Dr. Oswald Hauser
1956
I Love You, Baby
Walter Ekland
2000
Film
Miss Rose White
Mordecai Weiss
1992
Film
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Lorenz Darrandt
1957
Film
Les Îles
Fabrice
1983
Film
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Father Christoph
2005
Film
The Desperate Ones
Marek
1967
Series
Imperium der Päpste
Sprecher
2008
Film
Why Havel?
1991
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
1959
Film
Labyrinth
The Filmmaker
1991
Film
The Vampyre Wars
Rodan
1996
Film
The Pedestrian
Andreas Giese
1973
Film
The Girl from Flanders
Alexander Haller
1956
Film
Jedermann Remixed
Jedermann (archive footage)
2011
Ripening Youth
Jürgen Sengebusch
1955
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
1956
Film
Man Under Suspicion
Lawyer Landau
1984
Film
Die Alpenklinik
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2006
Film
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Self
2004
Film
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Toni Schellenberg
1957
Film
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Self
1996
Film
Children of the Mountains
Josef Ospel
1958
Film
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Himself
2007
Die Bernauerin
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
1958
Die sechste Frau
Henry Howard
1959