Maximilian Schell
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.
A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Age 46 (now 83)
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
as Self
Age 79 (now 83)
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
as Himself
Age 76 (now 83)
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
as Self
Age 73 (now 83)
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando Hereira
Age 73 (now 83)
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Karl Steingraf
Age 71 (now 83)
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
as Cardinal Vittorio
Age 65 (now 83)
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
as Self
Age 65 (now 83)
End of the Game
as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
Age 47 (now 83) A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Age 46 (now 83)
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
as Zanetto und Tonio
Age 36 (now 83)
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as German Narrator
Age 35 (now 83)
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Age 28 (now 83)
The Last Ones Shall Be First
as Lorenz Darrandt
Age 26 (now 83)
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
Age 25 (now 83)
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Age 24 (now 83)
Children, Mother, and the General
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
Age 24 (now 83)Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
as Self
Age 79 (now 83)
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
as Self
Age 74 (now 83)
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
Age 72 (now 83)
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
as Franz Steininger
Age 71 (now 83)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
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