Maximilian Schell

Personal Info

Birthday

December 8, 1930

Day of Death

2014-02-01

(83 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Also Known As

Максимилиан Шелл

Maximilian Schell

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).

Known For

Playhouse 90

Wiseguy

Deep Impact

Hallmark Hall of Fame

A Bridge Too Far

Joan of Arc

Vampires

Judgment at Nuremberg

Filmography

2015
Les brigands
as Mr. Escher
2011
Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)
2010
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
as Self
2009
Black Flowers
as Jacob Krinsten
2008
The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond Dog
2007
The Shell Seekers
as Lawrence Sterne
Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
as Himself
2006
House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Kogi
Die Alpenklinik
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2005
Die Liebe eines Priesters
as Father Christoph
2004
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
as Self
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando Hereira
Coast to Coast
as Casimir
2003
Alles Glück dieser Erde
as Xaver Schönborn
2002
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Karl Steingraf
My Sister Maria
as Himself
2001
Festival in Cannes
as Viktor Kovner
2000
I Love You, Baby
as Walter Ekland
Just Messing About
as Poser
1999
On the Wings of Love
as Hochberg
1998
Vampires
as Cardinal Alba
Deep Impact
as Jason Lerner
Left Luggage
as Mr. Silberschmidt
1997
Telling Lies in America
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
Zwischen Rosen
as Carl Stern
The Eighteenth Angel
as Father Simeon
1996
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
as Cardinal Vittorio
The Vampyre Wars
as Rodan
1994
Little Odessa
as Arkady Shapira
1993
Abraham
as Pharao
Candles in the Dark
as Colonel Arkush
Justice
as Isaak Kohler
A Far Off Place
as Col. Mopani Theron
1992
Stalin
as Vladimir Lenin
Miss Rose White
as Mordecai Weiss
1991
Labyrint
as The Filmmaker
1990
You Can't Live Like That
as German Commentator
The Freshman
as Larry London
1989
The Rose Garden
as Aaron
1985
The Assisi Underground
as Col. Müller
Man Under Suspicion
as Lawyer Landau
To Be Hamlet
as Self
1984
Marlene
as Himself
1983
Les Îles
as Fabrice
The Phantom of the Opera
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
1981
The Chosen
as Professor David Malter
1980
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
1979
The Black Hole
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Together?
as Giovanni
Avalanche Express
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Players
as Marco
Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Theatre Visitor
1977
Julia
as Johann
A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Cross of Iron
as Hauptmann Stransky
1976
St. Ives
as Dr. John Constable
1975
The Day That Shook the World
as Đuro Šarac
The Man in the Glass Booth
as Arthur Goldman
1974
The Odessa File
as Eduard Roschmann
1973
The Pedestrian
as Andreas Giese
1972
Pope Joan
as Adrian
Paulina 1880
as Count Michele Cantarini
1970
First Love
as Vater
1969
Simon Bolivar
as Simón Bolívar
1968
Krakatoa, East of Java
as Captain Chris Hanson
Heidi
as Richard Sessemann
The Castle
as K
1967
Counterpoint
as Gen. Schiller
The Deadly Affair
as Dieter Frey
The Desperate Ones
as Marek
1966
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
as Zanetto und Tonio
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as German Narrator
1965
Return from the Ashes
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
Der seidene Schuh
as Don Rodrigo
1964
Topkapi
as Walter Harper
1962
The Reluctant Saint
as Giuseppe
The Condemned of Altona
as Franz von Gerlach
Five Finger Exercise
as Walter
1961
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
as Hamlet
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Hans Rolfe
1959
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Die sechste Frau
as Henry Howard
1958
Die Bernauerin
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Children of the Mountains
as Josef Ospel
The Young Lions
as Capt. Hardenberg
1957
The Last Ones Shall Be First
as Lorenz Darrandt
Taxichauffeur Bänz
as Toni Schellenberg
1956
Ein Herz kehrt heim
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
The Girl from Flanders
as Alexander Haller
1955
Ripening Youth
as Jürgen Sengebusch
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Children, Mother, and the General
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht