
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.

Les brigands
Mr. Escher

Jedermann Remixed
Jedermann (archive footage)
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Self

Black Flowers
Jacob Krinsten

Darkness

The Brothers Bloom
Diamond Dog

The Shell Seekers
Lawrence Sterne

Die Rosenkönigin
Karl Friedrich Weidemann

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

House of the Sleeping Beauties
Kogi

Die Alpenklinik
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf

Die Liebe eines Priesters
Father Christoph

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Self

The Return of the Dancing Master
Fernando Hereira

Coast to Coast
Casimir

Alles Glück dieser Erde
Xaver Schönborn

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Karl Steingraf

My Sister Maria
Himself

Festival in Cannes
Viktor Kovner
I Love You, Baby
Walter Ekland

Just Messing About
Poser

On the Wings of Love
Hochberg

Vampires
Cardinal Alba

Deep Impact
Jason Lerner

Left Luggage
Mr. Silberschmidt

Telling Lies in America
Dr. Istvan Jonas
Zwischen Rosen
Carl Stern

The Eighteenth Angel
Father Simeon

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Cardinal Vittorio

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Self

The Vampyre Wars
Rodan

Little Odessa
Arkady Shapira

Abraham
Pharao

Candles in the Dark
Colonel Arkush

Justice
Isaak Kohler

A Far Off Place
Col. Mopani Theron

Stalin
Vladimir Lenin

Miss Rose White
Mordecai Weiss

Labyrinth
The Filmmaker

Why Havel?

You Can't Live Like That
German Commentator

The Freshman
Larry London

The Rose Garden
Aaron

The Assisi Underground
Col. Müller

To Be Hamlet
Self

Marlene
Himself

Man Under Suspicion
Lawyer Landau

Les Îles
Fabrice

The Phantom of the Opera
Sandor Korvin/Phantom

The Chosen
Professor David Malter

The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank

The Black Hole
Dr. Hans Reinhardt

Together?
Giovanni

Avalanche Express
Colonel Nikolai Bunin

Players
Marco

Tales from the Vienna Woods
Theatre Visitor

End of the Game
Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)

Julia
Johann

A Bridge Too Far
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich

Cross of Iron
Hauptmann Stransky

St. Ives
Dr. John Constable

The Day That Shook the World
Đuro Šarac

The Man in the Glass Booth
Arthur Goldman

The Odessa File
Eduard Roschmann

The Pedestrian
Andreas Giese

Pope Joan
Adrian

Paulina 1880
Count Michele Cantarini

First Love
Vater

Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar

Krakatoa, East of Java
Captain Chris Hanson

Heidi
Richard Sessemann

The Castle
K

Counterpoint
Gen. Schiller

The Desperate Ones
Marek

The Deadly Affair
Dieter Frey
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Zanetto und Tonio

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

Return from the Ashes
Stanislaw Pilgrin

Der seidene Schuh
Don Rodrigo

Topkapi
Walter Harper

The Reluctant Saint
Giuseppe

The Condemned of Altona
Franz von Gerlach

Five Finger Exercise
Walter

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Hamlet

Judgment at Nuremberg
Hans Rolfe

The Fifth Column
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow

Judgment at Nuremberg
Otto Rolfe
Die sechste Frau
Henry Howard
Die Bernauerin
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern

Children of the Mountains
Josef Ospel

The Young Lions
Capt. Hardenberg
Der Meisterdieb
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Lorenz Darrandt

Taxichauffeur Bänz
Toni Schellenberg
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Dr. Oswald Hauser

The Girl from Flanders
Alexander Haller
Ripening Youth
Jürgen Sengebusch

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises

Children, Mother, and the General
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht







