Maximilian Schell
Born December 08, 1930 (Age: 95)
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Vienna, Austria
Biography
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.
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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Filmography
Jedermann Remixed
2011
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as Jedermann (archive footage)
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Age: 80
No Image
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010
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as Self
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Age: 79
The Brothers Bloom
2008
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as Diamond Dog
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Age: 77
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007
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as Himself
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Age: 76
Die Alpenklinik
2006
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as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
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Age: 75
Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005
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as Father Christoph
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Age: 74
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004
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as Self
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Age: 73
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
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as Fernando Hereira
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Age: 73
Coast to Coast
2004
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as Casimir
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Age: 73
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002
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as Karl Steingraf
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Age: 71
My Sister Maria
2002
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as Himself
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Age: 71
Festival in Cannes
2001
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as Viktor Kovner
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Age: 70
No Image
I Love You, Baby
2000
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as Walter Ekland
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Age: 69
Just Messing About
2000
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as Poser
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Age: 69
Vampires
1998
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as Cardinal Alba
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Age: 67
Deep Impact
1998
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as Jason Lerner
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Age: 67
Left Luggage
1998
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as Mr. Silberschmidt
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Age: 67
Telling Lies in America
1997
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as Dr. Istvan Jonas
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Age: 66
No Image
Zwischen Rosen
1997
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as Carl Stern
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Age: 66
The Eighteenth Angel
1997
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as Father Simeon
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Age: 66
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
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as Cardinal Vittorio
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Age: 65
The Vampyre Wars
1996
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as Rodan
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Age: 65
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996
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as Self
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Age: 65
Abraham
1993
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as Pharao
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Age: 63
Candles in the Dark
1993
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as Colonel Arkush
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Age: 62
Justice
1993
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as Isaak Kohler
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Age: 62
A Far Off Place
1993
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as Col. Mopani Theron
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Age: 62
Stalin
1992
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as Vladimir Lenin
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Age: 61
Miss Rose White
1992
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as Mordecai Weiss
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Age: 61
Labyrinth
1991
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as The Filmmaker
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Age: 60
Why Havel?
1991
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as
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Age: 60
The Freshman
1990
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as Larry London
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Age: 59
The Rose Garden
1989
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as Aaron
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Age: 59
The Assisi Underground
1985
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as Col. Müller
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Age: 54
To Be Hamlet
1985
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as Self
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Age: 54
The Chosen
1981
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as Professor David Malter
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Age: 50
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
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as Otto Frank
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Age: 49
The Black Hole
1979
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as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
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Age: 49
End of the Game
1978
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as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 47
Julia
1977
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as Johann
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Age: 46
A Bridge Too Far
1977
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as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
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Age: 46
Cross of Iron
1977
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as Hauptmann Stransky
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Age: 46
The Odessa File
1974
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as Eduard Roschmann
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Age: 43
The Pedestrian
1973
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as Andreas Giese
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Age: 42
Pope Joan
1972
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as Adrian
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Age: 41
Paulina 1880
1972
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as Count Michele Cantarini
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Age: 41
Simón Bolívar
1969
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as Simón Bolívar
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Age: 38
Krakatoa, East of Java
1969
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as Captain Chris Hanson
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Age: 38
Return from the Ashes
1965
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as Stanislaw Pilgrin
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Age: 34
Der seidene Schuh
1965
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as Don Rodrigo
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Age: 34
Topkapi
1964
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as Walter Harper
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Age: 33
The Reluctant Saint
1962
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as Giuseppe
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Age: 31
The Condemned of Altona
1962
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as Franz von Gerlach
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Age: 31
Five Finger Exercise
1962
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as Walter
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Age: 31
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961
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as Hamlet
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Age: 31
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
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as Hans Rolfe
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Age: 31
The Fifth Column
1960
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as
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Age: 29
No Image
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959
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as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
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Age: 28
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959
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as Otto Rolfe
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Age: 28
No Image
Die sechste Frau
1959
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as Henry Howard
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Age: 28
No Image
Die Bernauerin
1958
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as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
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Age: 28
Children of the Mountains
1958
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as Josef Ospel
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Age: 27
The Young Lions
1958
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as Capt. Hardenberg
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Age: 27
No Image
Der Meisterdieb
1958
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as
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Age: 27
No Image
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956
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as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
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Age: 25
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
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as Dr. Oswald Hauser
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Age: 25
The Girl from Flanders
1956
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as Alexander Haller
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Age: 25
No Image
Ripening Youth
1955
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as Jürgen Sengebusch
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Age: 24
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
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as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
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Age: 24
Children, Mother, and the General
1955
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as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
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Age: 24