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.

Фільмографія

• 2015Les brigands — Mr. Escher
• 2011Jedermann Remixed — Jedermann (archive footage)
• 2009Black Flowers — Jacob Krinsten
• 2009Darkness
• Imperium der Päpste — Sprecher, Creator
• 2008The Brothers Bloom — Diamond Dog
• 2007Die Rosenkönigin — Karl Friedrich Weidemann
• 2007The Shell Seekers — Lawrence Sterne
• 2006Die Alpenklinik — Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
• 2006House of the Sleeping Beauties — Kogi
• 2005Die Liebe eines Priesters — Father Christoph
• 2004Coast to Coast — Casimir
• 2004The Return of the Dancing Master — Fernando Hereira
• 2003Alles Glück dieser Erde — Xaver Schönborn
• Der Fürst und das Mädchen — Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
• 2002Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch — Karl Steingraf
• Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften — Franz Steininger
• 2002My Sister Maria — Himself, Director, Executive Producer
• 2001Festival in Cannes — Viktor Kovner
• 2000I Love You, Baby — Walter Ekland
• 2000Just Messing About — Poser
• Joan of Arc — Brother Jean le Maistre
• 1999On the Wings of Love — Hochberg
• 1998Left Luggage — Mr. Silberschmidt
• 1998Вампіри — Cardinal Alba
• 1998Зіткнення з безоднею — Jason Lerner
• Storyville — Director
• 1997Telling Lies in America — Dr. Istvan Jonas
• 1997The Eighteenth Angel — Father Simeon
• 1997Zwischen Rosen — Carl Stern
• 1996The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years — Cardinal Vittorio
• 1996The Vampyre Wars — Rodan
• 1994Маленька Одеса — Arkady Shapira
• 1993A Far Off Place — Col. Mopani Theron
• 1993Abraham — Pharao
• Abraham — Pharaoh
• 1993Candles in the Dark — Colonel Arkush, Director
• 1993Justice — Isaak Kohler
• 1992Miss Rose White — Mordecai Weiss
• 1992Stalin — Vladimir Lenin
• 1991Labyrinth — The Filmmaker
• 1991Why Havel?
• Young Catherine — Frederick the Great
• 1990You Can't Live Like That — German Commentator
• 1990Першокурсник — Larry London
• 1989The Rose Garden — Aaron
• Розумник — Amado Guzman
• Peter the Great — Peter the Great
• 1985Die Föhnforscher — Co-Producer
• 1985The Assisi Underground — Col. Müller
• 1984Man Under Suspicion — Lawyer Landau
• 1984Marlene — Himself, Director
• 1983Les Îles — Fabrice
• 1983The Phantom of the Opera — Sandor Korvin/Phantom
• 1981The Chosen — Professor David Malter
• 1980The Diary of Anne Frank — Otto Frank
• 1979Avalanche Express — Colonel Nikolai Bunin
• 1979Players — Marco
• 1979Tales from the Vienna Woods — Theatre Visitor, Producer, Writer, Director
• 1979Together? — Giovanni
• 1979Чорна діра — Dr. Hans Reinhardt
• 1977Cross of Iron — Hauptmann Stransky
• 1977Julia — Johann
• 1977Міст надто далеко — General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
• 1976St. Ives — Dr. John Constable
• 1976The Clown — Producer
• 1975End of the Game — Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
• 1975The Day That Shook the World — Đuro Šarac
• 1975The Man in the Glass Booth — Arthur Goldman
• 1974The Odessa File — Eduard Roschmann
• 1973The Pedestrian — Andreas Giese, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1972Paulina 1880 — Count Michele Cantarini
• 1972Pope Joan — Adrian
• 1971Trotta — Screenplay
• 1970First Love — Vater, Director, Producer, Writer
• 1969Krakatoa, East of Java — Captain Chris Hanson
• 1969Simón Bolívar — Simón Bolívar
• 1968Heidi — Richard Sessemann
• 1968The Castle — K, Writer
• 1967Alles zum Guten — Director
• 1967Counterpoint — Gen. Schiller
• 1967The Deadly Affair — Dieter Frey
• 1967The Desperate Ones — Marek
• 1966Die venezianischen Zwillinge — Zanetto und Tonio
• 1966John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums — German Narrator
• Der seidene Schuh — Don Rodrigo
• 1965Return from the Ashes — Stanislaw Pilgrin
• 1964Topkapi — Walter Harper
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• 1962Five Finger Exercise — Walter
• 1962The Condemned of Altona — Franz von Gerlach
• 1962The Reluctant Saint — Giuseppe
• 1961Hamlet, Prince of Denmark — Hamlet
• 1961Нюрнберзький процес — Hans Rolfe
• 1960The Fifth Column
• 1959Die sechste Frau — Henry Howard
• 1959Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste — Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
• 1959Judgment at Nuremberg — Otto Rolfe
• 1958Children of the Mountains — Josef Ospel
• 1958Der Meisterdieb
• 1958Die Bernauerin — Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
• 1958The Young Lions — Capt. Hardenberg
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
• 1957Taxichauffeur Bänz — Toni Schellenberg
• 1957The Last Ones Shall Be First — Lorenz Darrandt
• 1956Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz — Dr. Oswald Hauser
• 1956Ein Herz kehrt heim — Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
• Playhouse 90 — Otto Rolfe
• 1956The Girl from Flanders — Alexander Haller
• 1955Children, Mother, and the General — Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
• 1955Ripening Youth — Jürgen Sengebusch
• 1955The Plot to Assassinate Hitler — Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Rose's Father

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (40)

• Das blaue Sofa — Self
• Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski — Self
• 2010Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell — Self
• Markus Lanz — Self
• Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz — Self
• 2007Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki — Himself
• Semperopernball — Self
• G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten — Self
• 2004In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• Servus, Hansi Hinterseer — Self
• Menschen bei Maischberger — Self
• Gero von Boehm begegnet... — Self
• Бекманн — Self
• Sternstunde Kunst — Self
• The Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
• 1996Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music — Self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• Lebens-Künstler — Self
• alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio — Self
• Riverboat — Self
• Romy Award — Self
• Nachtcafé — Self
• Seitenblicke — self
• Showgeschichten — self
• 1985To Be Hamlet — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self - Presenter
• Bernstein/Beethoven — Self (commentary)
• Heut' abend — Self
• Bavarian Film Awards — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• People's Choice Awards — Self
• Je später der Abend — Self
• V.I.P. Schaukel — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• Stars in der Manege — Self
• Оскар — Self
• German Film Award — Self
• Bambi — Self - Laudation