
Maximilian Schell
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Avalanche Express
1979

I Love You, Baby
2000

Judgment at Nuremberg
1961

To Be Hamlet
1985

Abraham
1993

Cross of Iron
1977

Les Îles
1983

Topkapi
1964

A Bridge Too Far
1977

The Odessa File
1974

The Brothers Bloom
2008

Deep Impact
1998

The Shell Seekers
2007

The Chosen
1981

The Black Hole
1979

Vampires
1998

The Eighteenth Angel
1997

The Young Lions
1958

Julia
1977

The Pedestrian
1973

The Deadly Affair
1967

St. Ives
1976

The Man in the Glass Booth
1975

Krakatoa, East of Java
1969

On the Wings of Love
1999

Left Luggage
1998

Return from the Ashes
1965

The Diary of Anne Frank
1980

Stalin
1992

Darkness
2009

Festival in Cannes
2001

The Reluctant Saint
1962

House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006

Die Rosenkönigin
2007

The Fifth Column
1960

The Return of the Dancing Master
2004

Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979

The Condemned of Altona
1962

Counterpoint
1967

Together?
1979

My Sister Maria
2002

The Castle
1968

Man Under Suspicion
1984

Justice
1993

First Love
1970

Simón Bolívar
1969

Why Havel?
1991

Players
1979

The Assisi Underground
1985

Five Finger Exercise
1962

The Rose Garden
1989

Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955

Miss Rose White
1992

Children, Mother, and the General
1955

The Last Ones Shall Be First
1957

Heidi
1968

The Girl from Flanders
1956

Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956

The Vampyre Wars
1996

Black Flowers
2009

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961

Les brigands
2015

The Day That Shook the World
1975

Der seidene Schuh
1965

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956

Die Bernauerin
1958

Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966

Telling Lies in America
1997

Children of the Mountains
1958

Ripening Youth
1955

Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003

A Far Off Place
1993

Die Alpenklinik
2006

The Phantom of the Opera
1983

Candles in the Dark
1993

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966

You Can't Live Like That
1990

Labyrinth
1991

Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957

Pope Joan
1972

Little Odessa
1994

Marlene
1984

The Freshman
1990

Zwischen Rosen
1997

Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959

Die sechste Frau
1959

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996

The Desperate Ones
1967

Der Meisterdieb
1958

Jedermann Remixed
2011

Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004

Paulina 1880
1972

Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010

Coast to Coast
2004

Judgment at Nuremberg
1959

Just Messing About
2000

End of the Game
1978

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996

Showgeschichten
1986

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

Peter the Great
1986

The Oscars
1953

The Three Musketeers
1968

Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003

Stars in the Ring
1959

Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995

Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002

Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003

Imperium der Päpste
2008

Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
2010

Playhouse 90
1956

Joan of Arc
1999

Young Catherine
1991

V.I.P. Schaukel
1971

Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
2007

German Film Award
1951

Romy Award
1990

Goldene Kamera
1984

Bambi
1948

Bambi
1948

Bavarian Film Awards
1979

Wiseguy
1987

Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
2004

Menschen bei Maischberger
2003

The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998

alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994

Markus Lanz
2008

Kölner Treff
1976

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Lebens-Künstler
1995

NDR Talk Show
1979

Beckmann
1999

Kulturplatz
2004

Je später der Abend
1973

Abraham
1994

G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005

Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002

Riverboat
1992

Nachtcafé
1987

Seitenblicke
1987

Kulturzeit
1995

Heut' abend
1980

Semperopernball
2006

Abraham
1994

Der seidene Schuh
1965

People's Choice Awards
1975

Bernstein/Beethoven
1982