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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Actor · 1930 – 2014 · 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). 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.

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  • Movie6.3

    Deep Impact

    1998 · 3.5K votes

  • Movie7.2

    A Bridge Too Far

    1977 · 974 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Vampires

    1998 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Black Hole

    1979 · 569 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Cross of Iron

    1977 · 502 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Judgment at Nuremberg

    1961 · 988 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Julia

    1977 · 173 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Freshman

    1990 · 320 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Brothers Bloom

    2008 · 732 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Young Lions

    1958 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.2

    A Far Off Place

    1993 · 65 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Odessa File

    1974 · 205 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Little Odessa

    1994 · 250 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Topkapi

    1964 · 225 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Erste Liebe

    First Love

    1970 · 8 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Abraham

    1993 · 56 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Telling Lies in America

    1997 · 46 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Heidi

    1968 · 17 votes

  • Movie5.8

    St. Ives

    1976 · 61 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Counterpoint

    1967 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.9
  • Movie5.3

    Stalin

    1992 · 39 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Deadly Affair

    1967 · 96 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Krakatoa, East of Java

    1969 · 42 votes

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  • TV7.4

    Die Harald Schmidt Show

    1995 · 21 votes

  • TV5.5

    Markus Lanz

    2008 · 14 votes

  • TV6.8

    Kölner Treff

    1976 · 4 votes

  • TV6.6

    NDR Talk Show

    1979 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV7.5

    Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

    The Johannes B. Kerner Show

    1998 · 4 votes

  • TV5.9
  • TV4.5

    Beckmann

    1999 · 4 votes

  • TV5.2

    Riverboat

    1992 · 4 votes

  • TV4.7

    Nachtcafé

    1987 · 3 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV4.0
  • TV5.7

    Goldene Kamera

    1984 · 3 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wiseguy

    1987 · 37 votes

  • TV6.0

    Kulturplatz

    2004 · 1 votes

  • TV9.2

    People's Choice Awards

    1975 · 6 votes

  • TV7.0

    Heut' abend

    1980 · 1 votes

  • TV5.3

    Stars in der Manege

    1959 · 3 votes

  • TV6.3