Maximilian Schell
Actor
Born December 8, 1930 in Vienna, Austria
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).
Filmography
Les brigands
Mr. Escher
Jedermann Remixed
Jedermann (archive footage)
Black Flowers
Jacob Krinsten
Darkness
The Brothers Bloom
Diamond Dog
Markus Lanz
Self
Imperium der Päpste
Sprecher
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
Kulturplatz
Self
The Return of the Dancing Master
Fernando Hereira
Coast to Coast
Casimir
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Xaver Schönborn
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Karl Steingraf
My Sister Maria
Himself
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Franz Steininger
Festival in Cannes
Viktor Kovner
Just Messing About
Poser
Joan of Arc
Brother Jean le Maistre
On the Wings of Love
Hochberg
Beckmann
Self
Vampires
Cardinal Alba
Deep Impact
Jason Lerner
Left Luggage
Mr. Silberschmidt
Telling Lies in America
Dr. Istvan Jonas
The Eighteenth Angel
Father Simeon
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Cardinal Vittorio
The Vampyre Wars
Rodan
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Kulturzeit
self
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Self
Little Odessa
Arkady Shapira
Abraham
Pharaoh
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
Riverboat
Self
Labyrinth
The Filmmaker
Why Havel?
Young Catherine
Frederick the Great
You Can't Live Like That
German Commentator
The Freshman
Larry London
The Rose Garden
Aaron
Wiseguy
Amado Guzman
Nachtcafé
Self
Peter the Great
Peter the Great
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
Bernstein/Beethoven
Self (commentary)
The Chosen
Professor David Malter
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
Heut' abend
Self
The Black Hole
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Together?
Giovanni
Avalanche Express
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Players
Marco
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Theatre Visitor
NDR Talk Show
Self
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
Kölner Treff
Self
The Clown
The Day That Shook the World
Đuro Šarac
People's Choice Awards
Self
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
Trotta
First Love
Vater
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
Krakatoa, East of Java
Captain Chris Hanson
Heidi
Richard Sessemann
The Castle
K
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Counterpoint
Gen. Schiller
The Desperate Ones
Marek
The Deadly Affair
Dieter Frey
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
German Narrator
Return from the Ashes
Stanislaw Pilgrin
Der seidene Schuh
Don Rodrigo
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
Judgment at Nuremberg
Otto Rolfe
Stars in the Ring
Self
Children of the Mountains
Josef Ospel
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Young Lions
Capt. Hardenberg
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Lorenz Darrandt
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Toni Schellenberg
Playhouse 90
Otto Rolfe
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Dr. Oswald Hauser
The Girl from Flanders
Alexander Haller
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Children, Mother, and the General
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
The Oscars
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rose's Father
Bambi
Self - Laudation