Maximilian Schell
Birthday
1930/12/08
Day of death
2014/02/01 (83 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Also know as
Максимилиан Шелл
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 Nurember...Read more
Acting
(1979) Avalanche Express
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
(2000) I Love You, Baby
as Walter Ekland
(1961) Judgment at Nuremberg
as Hans Rolfe
(1985) To Be Hamlet
as Self
(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) The Man in the Glass Booth
as Arthur Goldman
(1968) Krakatoa, East of Java
as Captain Chris Hanson
(1999) On the Wings of Love
as Hochberg
(1998) Left Luggage
as Mr. Silberschmidt
(1965) Return from the Ashes
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
(1980) The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
(1992) Stalin
as Vladimir Lenin
(2009) Darkness
as ---
(2001) Festival in Cannes
as Viktor Kovner
(1962) The Reluctant Saint
as Giuseppe
(2006) House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Kogi
(2007) Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
(1960) The Fifth Column
as ---
(2004) The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando Hereira
(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
(1985) Man Under Suspicion
as Lawyer Landau
(1968) The Castle
as K
(1970) First Love
as Vater
(1993) Justice
as Isaak Kohler
(1969) Simon Bolivar
as Simón Bolívar
(1991) Why Havel?
as ---
(1979) Players
as Marco
(1985) The Assisi Underground
as Col. Müller
(1962) Five Finger Exercise
as Walter
(1989) The Rose Garden
as Aaron
(2005) Die Liebe eines Priesters
as Father Christoph
(2002) Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Karl Steingraf
(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) The Last Ones Shall Be First
as Lorenz Darrandt
(1968) Heidi
as Richard Sessemann
(1956) The Girl from Flanders
as Alexander Haller
(1956) Ein Herz kehrt heim
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
(2009) Black Flowers
as Jacob Krinsten
(1996) The Vampyre Wars
as Rodan
(1961) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
as Hamlet
(2015) Les brigands
as Mr. Escher
(1975) The Day That Shook the World
as Đuro Šarac
(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) Children of the Mountains
as Josef Ospel
(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
(1966) John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as German Narrator
(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) Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
(1959) Die sechste Frau
as Henry Howard
(1996) The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
as Cardinal Vittorio
(1967) The Desperate Ones
as Marek
(1958) Der Meisterdieb
as ---
(2011) Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)
(2007) Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
as Himself
(2004) In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
as Self
(1972) Paulina 1880
as Count Michele Cantarini
(2010) Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
as Self
(2004) Coast to Coast
as Casimir
(1959) Judgment at Nuremberg
as Otto Rolfe
(1986) Show Stories
as self
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rose's Father
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as ---
(1986) Peter the Great
as Peter the Great
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1968) The Three Musketeers
as ---
(2003) Der Fürst und das Mädchen
as ---
(1959) Stars in the Ring
as Self
(1995) Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
(2002) Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
as Franz Steininger
(2003) Der Fürst und das Mädchen
as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
(2008) Imperium der Päpste
as Sprecher
(2010) Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
as Self
(1956) Playhouse 90
as Otto Rolfe
(1999) Joan of Arc
as Brother Jean le Maistre
(1991) Young Catherine
as Frederick the Great
(1971) V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
(2007) Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
as Self
(1951) Deutscher Filmpreis
as Self
(1990) Romy Award
as Self
(1966) Golden Camera Awards
as Self - Presenter
(1948) BAMBI Awards
as Self - Laudation
(1948) BAMBI Awards
as Self
(1979) Bavarian Film Award
as Self
(1987) Wiseguy
as Amado Guzman
(2004) Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
as Self
(2003) Menschen bei Maischberger
as Self
(1998) The Johannes B. Kerner Show
as Self
(1994) alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
as Self
(2008) Markus Lanz
as Self
(1976) Kölner Treff
as Self
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1995) Lebens-Künstler
as Self
(1979) NDR Talk Show
as Self
(1999) Beckmann
as Self
(2004) Kulturplatz
as Self
(1973) Je später der Abend
as Self
(1994) Abraham
as Pharaoh
(2005) G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
as Self
(2002) Gero von Boehm begegnet...
as Self
(1992) Riverboat
as Self
(1987) Nachtcafé
as Self
(1987) Seitenblicke
as self
(1995) Kulturzeit
as self
(1980) Tonight
as Self
(2006) Semperopernball
as Self