Maximilian Schell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-12-08 (84 years old)

Deathday

2014-02-01

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

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). 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...

Acting

1979

Avalanche Express

as Colonel Nikolai Bunin

2000

I Love You, Baby

as Walter Ekland

1961

1985

1993

Abraham

as Pharao

1977

Cross of Iron

as Hauptmann Stransky

1983

Les Îles

as Fabrice

1964

Topkapi

as Walter Harper

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich

1974

The Odessa File

as Eduard Roschmann

2008

The Brothers Bloom

as Diamond Dog

1998

Deep Impact

as Jason Lerner

2007

The Shell Seekers

as Lawrence Sterne

1981

The Chosen

as Professor David Malter

1979

The Black Hole

as Dr. Hans Reinhardt

1998

Vampires

as Cardinal Alba

1997

The Eighteenth Angel

as Father Simeon

1958

The Young Lions

as Capt. Hardenberg

1977

Julia

as Johann

1973

The Pedestrian

as Andreas Giese

1967

The Deadly Affair

as Dieter Frey

1976

St. Ives

as Dr. John Constable

1975

1968

Krakatoa, East of Java

as Captain Chris Hanson

1999

1998

Left Luggage

as Mr. Silberschmidt

1965

Return from the Ashes

as Stanislaw Pilgrin

1980

1992

Stalin

as Vladimir Lenin

2001

Festival in Cannes

as Viktor Kovner

1962

2007

Die Rosenkönigin

as Karl Friedrich Weidemann

2004

1979

Tales from the Vienna Woods

as Theatre Visitor

1962

The Condemned of Altona

as Franz von Gerlach

1967

Counterpoint

as Gen. Schiller

1979

Together?

as Giovanni

2002

My Sister Maria

as Himself

1968

1970

First Love

as Vater

1985

Man Under Suspicion

as Lawyer Landau

1993

Justice

as Isaak Kohler

1969

Simon Bolivar

as Simón Bolívar

1979

Players

as Marco

1985

The Assisi Underground

as Col. Müller

1989

2005

Die Liebe eines Priesters

as Father Christoph

1955

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises

1992

Miss Rose White

as Mordecai Weiss

1955

Children, Mother, and the General

as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht

1957

1968

Heidi

as Richard Sessemann

1956

The Girl from Flanders

as Alexander Haller

1956

Ein Herz kehrt heim

as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn

1996

2009

Black Flowers

as Jacob Krinsten

2015

Les brigands

as Mr. Escher

1975

1965

Der seidene Schuh

as Don Rodrigo

1956

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

as Dr. Oswald Hauser

1958

Die Bernauerin

as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern

1966

Die venezianischen Zwillinge

as Zanetto und Tonio

1997

Telling Lies in America

as Dr. Istvan Jonas

1958

1955

Ripening Youth

as Jürgen Sengebusch

2003

Alles Glück dieser Erde

as Xaver Schönborn

1993

A Far Off Place

as Col. Mopani Theron

2006

Die Alpenklinik

as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf

1983

The Phantom of the Opera

as Sandor Korvin/Phantom

2011

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

as Self (archive footage)

1993

Candles in the Dark

as Colonel Arkush

1990

You Can't Live Like That

as German Commentator

1991

Labyrint

as The Filmmaker

1957

Taxichauffeur Bänz

as Toni Schellenberg

1972

Pope Joan

as Adrian

1994

Little Odessa

as Arkady Shapira

1984

Marlene

as Himself

1990

The Freshman

as Larry London

1997

Zwischen Rosen

as Carl Stern

1959

1959

Die sechste Frau

as Henry Howard

1996

1967

2011

Jedermann Remixed

as Jedermann (archive footage)

1972

Paulina 1880

as Count Michele Cantarini

2004

Coast to Coast

as Casimir

1959

2000

Production

1984

Marlene

as Director

1973

The Pedestrian

as Director

1973

1978

End of the Game

as Director

2002

My Sister Maria

as Director

2002

My Sister Maria

as Executive Producer

1970

First Love

as Director

1993

1971

Trotta

as Screenplay

1985

Die Föhnforscher

as Co-Producer

1978

1968

The Castle

as Writer

1967

Alles zum Guten

as Director

1970

First Love

as Producer

1973

The Pedestrian

as Producer

1978

End of the Game

as Producer

1976

The Clown

as Producer

1970

First Love

as Writer

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