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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	1.1662
Birthday	1930-12-08
Place of Birth	Vienna, Austria
Also Known As

Avalanche Express

I Love You, Baby

Judgment at Nuremberg

To Be Hamlet

Abraham

Cross of Iron

Les Îles

Topkapi

A Bridge Too Far

The Odessa File

The Brothers Bloom

Deep Impact

The Shell Seekers

The Chosen

The Black Hole

Vampires

The Eighteenth Angel

The Young Lions

Julia

The Pedestrian

The Deadly Affair

St. Ives

The Man in the Glass Booth

Krakatoa, East of Java

On the Wings of Love

Left Luggage

Return from the Ashes

The Diary of Anne Frank

Stalin

Darkness

Festival in Cannes

The Reluctant Saint

House of the Sleeping Beauties

Die Rosenkönigin

The Fifth Column

The Return of the Dancing Master

Tales from the Vienna Woods

The Condemned of Altona

Counterpoint

Together?

My Sister Maria

Man Under Suspicion

The Castle

First Love

Justice

Simón Bolívar

Why Havel?

Players

The Assisi Underground

Five Finger Exercise

The Rose Garden

Die Liebe eines Priesters

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

Miss Rose White

Children, Mother, and the General

The Last Ones Shall Be First

Heidi

The Girl from Flanders

Ein Herz kehrt heim

Black Flowers

The Vampyre Wars

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Les brigands

The Day That Shook the World

Der seidene Schuh

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

Die Bernauerin

Die venezianischen Zwillinge

Telling Lies in America

Children of the Mountains

Ripening Youth

Alles Glück dieser Erde

A Far Off Place

Die Alpenklinik

The Phantom of the Opera

Candles in the Dark

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

You Can't Live Like That

Labyrinth