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.
100 movies · 49 shows
Les brigands
2015·3.4
Jedermann Remixed
2011·0.0
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010·0.0
Black Flowers
2009·4.4
Darkness
2009·4.1
The Brothers Bloom
2008·6.6
The Shell Seekers
2007·6.9
Die Rosenkönigin
2007·5.6
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007·0.0
House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006·5.3
Die Alpenklinik
2006·2.3
Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005·10.0
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004·9.0
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004·5.3
Coast to Coast
2004·7.0
Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003·6.3
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002·7.0
My Sister Maria
2002·6.7
Festival in Cannes
2001·5.3
I Love You, Baby
2000·9.0
Just Messing About
2000·4.5
On the Wings of Love
1999·6.5
Vampires
1998·6.3
Deep Impact
1998·6.2
Left Luggage
1998·6.3
Telling Lies in America
1997·5.8
Zwischen Rosen
1997·9.0
The Eighteenth Angel
1997·5.1
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996·6.9
The Vampyre Wars
1996·0.0
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1996·10.0
Little Odessa
1994·6.5
Abraham
1993·7.1
Candles in the Dark
1993·6.0
Justice
1993·5.6
A Far Off Place
1993·6.2
Stalin
1992·5.3
Miss Rose White
1992·5.0
Labyrinth
1991·8.5
Why Havel?
1991·0.0
You Can't Live Like That
1990·5.0
The Freshman
1990·6.3
The Rose Garden
1989·6.7
The Assisi Underground
1985·5.1
To Be Hamlet
1985·0.0
Marlene
1984·7.0
Man Under Suspicion
1984·6.5
Les Îles
1983·9.0
The Phantom of the Opera
1983·5.9
The Chosen
1981·7.1
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980·5.8
The Black Hole
1979·5.8
Together?
1979·5.2
Avalanche Express
1979·4.8
Players
1979·4.9
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979·6.1
Julia
1977·6.5
A Bridge Too Far
1977·7.2
Cross of Iron
1977·7.1
St. Ives
1976·5.8
The Day That Shook the World
1975·6.1
End of the Game
1975·5.0
The Man in the Glass Booth
1975·6.1
The Odessa File
1974·6.6
The Pedestrian
1973·7.0
Pope Joan
1972·6.1
Paulina 1880
1972·8.7
First Love
1970·5.7
Simón Bolívar
1969·5.1
Krakatoa, East of Java
1969·5.8
Heidi
1968·6.3
The Castle
1968·6.6
Counterpoint
1967·6.2
The Desperate Ones
1967·8.0
The Deadly Affair
1967·6.3
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966·0.0
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966·5.8
Return from the Ashes
1965·6.2
Topkapi
1964·6.5
The Reluctant Saint
1962·7.8
The Condemned of Altona
1962·7.1
Five Finger Exercise
1962·5.6
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961·2.8
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961·8.0
The Fifth Column
1960·8.3
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959·0.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959·6.0
Die sechste Frau
1959·0.0
Die Bernauerin
1958·10.0
Children of the Mountains
1958·10.0
The Young Lions
1958·6.8
Der Meisterdieb
1958·0.0
The Last Ones Shall Be First
1957·7.0
Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957·7.2
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956·7.0
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956·7.0
The Girl from Flanders
1956·8.6
Ripening Youth
1955·7.0
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955·6.1
Children, Mother, and the General
1955·6.4