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
Also known As
Максимилиан Шелл
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
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
2000
as Walter Ekland
1961
as Hans Rolfe
1985
as Self
1993
as Pharao
1977
as Hauptmann Stransky
1983
as Fabrice
1964
as Walter Harper
1977
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
1974
as Eduard Roschmann
2008
as Diamond Dog
1998
as Jason Lerner
2007
as Lawrence Sterne
1981
as Professor David Malter
1979
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
1998
as Cardinal Alba
1997
as Father Simeon
1958
as Capt. Hardenberg
1977
as Johann
1973
as Andreas Giese
1967
as Dieter Frey
1976
as Dr. John Constable
1975
as Arthur Goldman
1968
as Captain Chris Hanson
1999
as Hochberg
1998
as Mr. Silberschmidt
1965
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
1980
as Otto Frank
1992
as Vladimir Lenin
2009
2001
as Viktor Kovner
1962
as Giuseppe
2006
2007
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
1960
2004
as Fernando Hereira
1979
as Theatre Visitor
1962
as Franz von Gerlach
1967
as Gen. Schiller
1979
as Giovanni
2002
as Himself
1968
as K
1970
as Vater
1985
as Lawyer Landau
1993
as Isaak Kohler
1969
as Simón Bolívar
1991
1979
as Marco
1985
as Col. Müller
1962
as Walter
1989
as Aaron
2005
as Father Christoph
2002
as Karl Steingraf
1955
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
1992
as Mordecai Weiss
1955
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
1957
as Lorenz Darrandt
1968
as Richard Sessemann
1956
as Alexander Haller
1956
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
1996
as Rodan
2009
as Jacob Krinsten
1961
as Hamlet
2015
as Mr. Escher
1975
as Đuro Šarac
1965
as Don Rodrigo
1956
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
1958
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
1966
as Zanetto und Tonio
1997
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
1958
as Josef Ospel
1955
as Jürgen Sengebusch
2003
as Xaver Schönborn
1993
as Col. Mopani Theron
2006
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
1983
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
2011
as Self (archive footage)
1993
as Colonel Arkush
1966
as German Narrator
1990
as German Commentator
1991
as The Filmmaker
1957
as Toni Schellenberg
1972
as Adrian
1994
as Arkady Shapira
1984
as Himself
1990
as Larry London
1997
as Carl Stern
1959
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
1959
as Henry Howard
1996
as Cardinal Vittorio
1967
as Marek
1958
2011
as Jedermann (archive footage)
1972
as Count Michele Cantarini
2010
2004
as Casimir
1959
as Otto Rolfe
2000
as Poser
Production
1984
as Director
1973
as Director
1973
as Writer
1978
as Director
2002
as Director
2002
as Executive Producer
1979
as Producer
1979
as Writer
1979
as Director
1970
as Director
1993
as Director
1971
as Screenplay
1985
as Co-Producer
1978
as Writer
1968
as Writer
1967
as Director
1970
as Producer
1973
as Producer
1978
as Producer
1976
as Producer
1970
as Writer
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