Maximilian Schell profile
Actor profile

Maximilian Schell

8th December 1930 Vienna, Austria 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.

101 Movies 49 TV Shows 150 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Vampires poster
Vampires 30th October 1998 as Cardinal Alba
Justice poster
Justice 14th October 1993 as Isaak Kohler
Stalin poster
Stalin 21st November 1992 as Vladimir Lenin
The Chosen poster
The Chosen 20th August 1981 as Professor David Malter
End of the Game poster
End of the Game 5th May 1978 as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
Julia poster
Julia 1st October 1977 as Johann
St. Ives poster
St. Ives 24th February 1976 as Dr. John Constable
Heidi poster
Heidi 1st November 1968 as Richard Sessemann
Topkapi poster
Topkapi 2nd September 1964 as Walter Harper
Wiseguy poster
Wiseguy 16th September 1987 as Amado Guzman
Bambi poster
Bambi 1st January 1948 as Self