Maria Schell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-01-15 (79 years old)

Deathday

2005-04-26

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Maria Schell

Biography

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926, Vienna – 26 April 2005, Preitenegg, Carinthia) was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise. The daughter of a Swiss author and an Austrian actress, she was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell, and lesser-known actors Carl Schell and Immy (Immaculata) Schell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1956

Liebe

as Anna Ballard

1978

Superman

as Vond-Ah

1982

The Passerby

as Anna Helwig

1978

Just a Gigolo

as Pauls Mutti Frau von Przygodski

1969

99 Women

as Leonie Caroll

1970

The Bloody Judge

as Mother Rosa

1959

The Hanging Tree

as Elizabeth Mahler

1955

Napoleon

as Marie-Louise d'Autriche

1958

1957

1960

Cimarron

as Sabra Cravat

1952

The Magic Box

as Helena Friese-Greene

1956

Gervaise

as Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse

1954

The Last Bridge

as Dr. Helga Reinbeck

1963

L'assassin connaît la musique

as Agnès Duvillard, la première veuve

1976

The Twist

as Gretel

1969

The Devil by the Tail

as La comtesse Diane

1961

The Mark

as Ruth Leighton

1958

1984

1955

The Rats

as Pauline Karka

1953

2002

My Sister Maria

as Herself

1957

Rose Bernd

as Rose Bernd

1961

Das Riesenrad

as Elisabeth von Hill

1952

1950

1948

1974

The Odessa File

as Frau Miller

1952

So Little Time

as Nicole de Malvines

1942

Steibruch

as Meiti / Gretl

1951

Dr. Holl

as Angelika Alberti

1979

Die erste Polka

as Valeska Piontek

1950

Es kommt ein Tag

as Madeleine

1953

1963

1980

1972

Dust in the Sun

as Gertie Bradford

1962

Only a Woman

as Lilli König

1982

Frau Jenny Treibel

as Jenny Treibel

1969

Die ungarische Hochzeit

as Kaiserin Maria Theresia

1955

Master Over Life and Death

as Barbara Bertram

1958

End of Desire

as Jeanne Dandieu

1950

Maresi

as Blanka von Steinville

1973

Immobilien

as Louise Strothmann

1972

1984

1982

1975

Change

as Mama

1983

Der Trauschein

as Ella Brozowsky

1974

Die Kurpfuscherin

as Amalie Hohenstern

1980

Der Thronfolger

as Königin Sophia Dorothea

1988

1978

Teerosen

as Bella

1976

Die Heiratsvermittlerin

as Mrs. Dolly Levi

1979

Der Wald

as Gurmyszkaja

1972

Marie

as Mutter

1953

Tagebuch einer Verliebten

as Barbara Holzmann

1953

Dreaming Lips

as Elisabeth

1959

1976

Voyage of the Damned

as Frau Miriam Hauser

1985

Nineteen Nineteen

as Sophie Rubin

1982

Der Besuch der alten Dame

as Claire Zachanassian

1978

Spiel der Verlierer

as Anna Friedrichs

1979

Moral

as Lina Beermann

1976

So oder so ist das Leben

as Katja Crohnen

1970

2021

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

as Herself (archive footage)

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