Maximilian Schell
Age: N/A | From: Vienna, Austria
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Максимилиан Шелл
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 103
TV Involvements: 24
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Die Harald Schmidt Show
(1995) Self
Deutscher Filmpreis
(1951) Self
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
(1966) Self - Presenter
The Oscars
(1953) Self
Wiseguy
(1987) Amado Guzman
Bambi Awards
(1948) Self Je später der Abend
(1973) Self
Stars in der Manege
(1959) SelfActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Mr. Escher | |
| 2011 | Jedermann (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2010 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2009 | Jacob Krinsten | |
| N/A | ||
| 2008 | Diamond Dog | |
| Self | ||
| Sprecher | ||
| 2007 | Lawrence Sterne | |
| Karl Friedrich Weidemann | ||
| Himself | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Kogi | |
| Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf | ||
| 2005 | Father Christoph | |
| Self | ||
| 2004 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Fernando Hereira | ||
| Casimir | ||
| 2003 | Xaver Schönborn | |
| N/A | ||
| Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald | ||
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Karl Steingraf | |
| Self | ||
| Himself | ||
| Franz Steininger | ||
| 2001 | Viktor Kovner | |
| 2000 | Walter Ekland | |
| 1999 | Brother Jean le Maistre | |
| Hochberg | ||
| Self | ||
| 1998 | Cardinal Alba | |
| Jason Lerner | ||
| Mr. Silberschmidt | ||
| Self | ||
| 1997 | Dr. Istvan Jonas | |
| Carl Stern | ||
| Father Simeon | ||
| 1996 | Rodan | |
| Cardinal Vittorio | ||
| 1995 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| self | ||
| 1994 | Self | |
| Arkady Shapira | ||
| Pharaoh | ||
| 1993 | Pharao | |
| Colonel Arkush | ||
| Isaak Kohler | ||
| Col. Mopani Theron | ||
| 1992 | Vladimir Lenin | |
| Mordecai Weiss | ||
| Self | ||
| 1991 | The FIlmmaker | |
| N/A | ||
| Frederick the Great | ||
| 1990 | German Commentator | |
| Larry London | ||
| Self | ||
| 1989 | Aaron | |
| 1987 | self | |
| Amado Guzman | ||
| 1986 | self | |
| Peter the Great | ||
| 1985 | Col. Müller | |
| Lawyer Landau | ||
| Self | ||
| 1984 | Himself | |
| 1983 | Fabrice | |
| Sandor Korvin/Phantom | ||
| 1981 | Professor David Malter | |
| 1980 | Otto Frank | |
| Self | ||
| 1979 | Dr. Hans Reinhardt | |
| Giovanni | ||
| Self | ||
| Colonel Nikolai Bunin | ||
| Marco | ||
| Self | ||
| Theatre Visitor | ||
| 1977 | Johann | |
| General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich | ||
| Hauptmann Stransky | ||
| 1976 | Dr. John Constable | |
| Self | ||
| 1975 | Đuro Šarac | |
| Arthur Goldman | ||
| 1974 | Eduard Roschmann | |
| 1973 | Andreas Giese | |
| Self | ||
| 1972 | Adrian | |
| N/A | ||
| 1971 | Self | |
| 1970 | Vater | |
| 1969 | Simón Bolívar | |
| 1968 | Captain Chris Hanson | |
| Richard Sessemann | ||
| N/A | ||
| K | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| 1967 | Gen. Schiller | |
| Dieter Frey | ||
| Marek | ||
| 1966 | Zanetto und Tonio | |
| German Narrator | ||
| Self - Presenter | ||
| 1965 | Stanislaw Pilgrin | |
| Don Rodrigo | ||
| 1964 | Walter Harper | |
| 1963 | N/A | |
| 1962 | Giuseppe | |
| Franz von Gerlach | ||
| Walter | ||
| 1961 | Hamlet | |
| Hans Rolfe | ||
| 1960 | N/A | |
| 1959 | Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow | |
| Self | ||
| Henry Howard | ||
| 1958 | Herzog Albrecht von Bayern | |
| Josef Ospel | ||
| N/A | ||
| Capt. Hardenberg | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1957 | Lorenz Darrandt | |
| Toni Schellenberg | ||
| 1956 | Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn | |
| Otto Rolfe | ||
| Dr. Oswald Hauser | ||
| Alexander Haller | ||
| 1955 | Jürgen Sengebusch | |
| Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises | ||
| Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht | ||
| 1953 | Self | |
| 1951 | Rose's Father | |
| Self | ||
| 1948 | Hans Rolfe (archive footage) | |
| Self - Laudation | ||
| Self | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Creator
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Creator | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Director | |
| 1993 | Director | |
| 1984 | Director | |
| 1979 | Director | |
| 1975 | Director | |
| 1973 | Director | |
| 1970 | Director | |
| 1967 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Executive Producer | |
| 1985 | Co-Producer | |
| 1979 | Producer | |
| 1976 | Producer | |
| 1975 | Producer | |
| 1973 | Producer | |
| 1970 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Writer | |
| 1975 | Writer | |
| 1973 | Writer | |
| 1971 | Screenplay | |
| 1970 | Writer | |
| 1968 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
