9.5
9.5
The Fifth Column
1960
Maximilian Schell
Acting
Born:December 8, 1930
Died:February 1, 2014(aged 83)
Birthplace:Vienna, Austria
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (102 movies)
8.8
8.8
The Girl from Flanders
1956
as Alexander Haller
8.0
8.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
as Hans Rolfe
8.0
8.0
Paulina 1880
1972
as Count Michele Cantarini
7.6
7.6
The Reluctant Saint
1962
as Giuseppe
7.2
7.2
A Bridge Too Far
1977
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
7.2
7.2
The Chosen
1981
as Professor David Malter
7.1
7.1
Cross of Iron
1977
as Hauptmann Stransky
7.0
7.0
Marlene
1984
Director
7.0
7.0
The Condemned of Altona
1962
as Franz von Gerlach
7.0
7.0
Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956
as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
7.0
7.0
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
as Cardinal Vittorio
6.9
6.9
The Shell Seekers
2007
as Lawrence Sterne
6.8
6.8
Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957
as Toni Schellenberg
6.8
6.8
The Young Lions
1958
as Capt. Hardenberg
6.6
6.6
Coast to Coast
2004
as Casimir
6.6
6.6
The Odessa File
1974
as Eduard Roschmann
6.6
6.6
The Brothers Bloom
2008
as Diamond Dog
6.5
6.5
Topkapi
1964
as Walter Harper
6.4
6.4
Julia
1977
as Johann
6.4
6.4
The Rose Garden
1989
as Aaron
6.4
6.4
The Pedestrian
1973
Producer
6.4
6.4
Little Odessa
1994
as Arkady Shapira
6.3
6.3
Vampires
1998
as Cardinal Alba
6.3
6.3
The Freshman
1990
as Larry London
6.3
6.3
Trotta
1971
Screenplay
6.2
6.2
Left Luggage
1998
as Mr. Silberschmidt
6.2
6.2
Deep Impact
1998
as Jason Lerner
6.2
6.2
The Deadly Affair
1967
as Dieter Frey
6.1
6.1
Return from the Ashes
1965
as Stanislaw Pilgrin
6.1
6.1
The Man in the Glass Booth
1975
as Arthur Goldman
6.1
6.1
A Far Off Place
1993
as Col. Mopani Theron
6.1
6.1
Heidi
1968
as Richard Sessemann
6.1
6.1
Counterpoint
1967
as Gen. Schiller
6.0
6.0
The Castle
1968
Writer
6.0
6.0
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
Director
6.0
6.0
My Sister Maria
2002
Director
5.9
5.9
The Day That Shook the World
1975
as Đuro Šarac
5.9
5.9
Pope Joan
1972
as Adrian
5.9
5.9
Krakatoa, East of Java
1968
as Captain Chris Hanson
5.8
5.8
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
5.8
5.8
Children, Mother, and the General
1955
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
5.8
5.8
The Black Hole
1979
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
5.7
5.7
Telling Lies in America
1997
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
5.7
5.7
The Clown
1976
Producer
5.6
5.6
St. Ives
1976
as Dr. John Constable
5.6
5.6
Die Rosenkönigin
2007
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
5.5
5.5
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
as Otto Frank
5.5
5.5
Festival in Cannes
2001
as Viktor Kovner
5.4
5.4
House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006
as Kogi
5.2
5.2
The Assisi Underground
1985
as Col. Müller
5.2
5.2
First Love
1970
Producer
5.2
5.2
Miss Rose White
1992
as Mordecai Weiss
5.1
5.1
Stalin
1992
as Vladimir Lenin
5.1
5.1
The Phantom of the Opera
1983
as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
5.0
5.0
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966
as German Narrator
5.0
5.0
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002
as Karl Steingraf
5.0
5.0
Man Under Suspicion
1984
as Lawyer Landau
4.9
4.9
The Eighteenth Angel
1997
as Father Simeon
4.9
4.9
End of the Game
1978
Director
4.9
4.9
Simon Bolivar
1969
as Simón Bolívar
4.8
4.8
Justice
1993
as Isaak Kohler
4.8
4.8
Together?
1979
as Giovanni
4.8
4.8
Avalanche Express
1979
as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
4.8
4.8
Five Finger Exercise
1962
as Walter
4.8
4.8
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
as Fernando Hereira
4.5
4.5
Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003
as Xaver Schönborn
4.4
4.4
Black Flowers
2009
as Jacob Krinsten
4.1
4.1
Players
1979
as Marco
4.0
4.0
On the Wings of Love
1999
as Hochberg
4.0
4.0
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
as Dr. Oswald Hauser
3.6
3.6
Darkness
2009
3.4
3.4
Les brigands
2015
as Mr. Escher
3.0
3.0
Candles in the Dark
1993
Director
3.0
3.0
You Can't Live Like That
1990
as German Commentator
2.5
2.5
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961
as Hamlet
2.3
2.3
Die Alpenklinik
2006
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2.0
2.0
Just Messing About
2000
as Poser
Der seidene Schuh
1965
as Don Rodrigo
Die Bernauerin
1958
as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966
as Zanetto und Tonio
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
2010
as Self
Les Îles
1983
as Fabrice
Children of the Mountains
1958
as Josef Ospel
Ripening Youth
1955
as Jürgen Sengebusch
The Vampyre Wars
1996
as Rodan
Zwischen Rosen
1997
as Carl Stern
Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005
as Father Christoph
I Love You, Baby
2000
as Walter Ekland
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959
as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
The Desperate Ones
1967
as Marek
Der Meisterdieb
1958
Die sechste Frau
1959
as Henry Howard
Jedermann Remixed
2011
as Jedermann (archive footage)
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
2007
as Himself
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004
as Self
Why Havel?
1991
To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
Labyrint
1991
as The Filmmaker
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959
as Otto Rolfe
The Last Ones Shall Be First
1957
as Lorenz Darrandt
Alles zum Guten
1967
Director
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