Deep Impact1998
As Jason Lerner
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Maximilian Schell
Born
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 (100)
A Bridge Too Far1977
As General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Black Hole1979
As Dr. Hans Reinhardt
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Vampires1998
As Cardinal Alba
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Judgment at Nuremberg1961
As Hans Rolfe
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Brothers Bloom2008
As Diamond Dog
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Julia1977
As Johann
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Young Lions1958
As Capt. Hardenberg
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Freshman1990
As Larry London
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Cross of Iron1977
As Hauptmann Stransky
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Odessa File1974
As Eduard Roschmann
TMDb 6.6 / 10
A Far Off Place1993
As Col. Mopani Theron
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Little Odessa1994
As Arkady Shapira
TMDb 6.5 / 10
First Love1970
As Vater
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Abraham1993
As Pharao
TMDb 7.1 / 10
St. Ives1976
As Dr. John Constable
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Topkapi1964
As Walter Harper
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Deadly Affair1967
As Dieter Frey
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Stalin1992
As Vladimir Lenin
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Counterpoint1967
As Gen. Schiller
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Telling Lies in America1997
As Dr. Istvan Jonas
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Pope Joan1972
As Adrian
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Heidi1968
As Richard Sessemann
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Chosen1981
As Professor David Malter
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Krakatoa, East of Java1969
As Captain Chris Hanson
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Man in the Glass Booth1975
As Arthur Goldman
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Day That Shook the World1975
As Đuro Šarac
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Left Luggage1998
As Mr. Silberschmidt
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years1996
As Cardinal Vittorio
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Avalanche Express1979
As Colonel Nikolai Bunin
TMDb 4.8 / 10
The Eighteenth Angel1997
As Father Simeon
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Condemned of Altona1962
As Franz von Gerlach
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Just Messing About2000
As Poser
TMDb 4.5 / 10
The Diary of Anne Frank1980
As Otto Frank
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Phantom of the Opera1983
As Sandor Korvin/Phantom
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Children, Mother, and the General1955
As Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Paulina 18801972
As Count Michele Cantarini
TMDb 8.7 / 10
Alles Glück dieser Erde2003
As Xaver Schönborn
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Candles in the Dark1993
As Colonel Arkush
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Die Rosenkönigin2007
As Karl Friedrich Weidemann
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Miss Rose White1992
As Mordecai Weiss
TMDb 5.0 / 10
End of the Game1975
As Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Zwischen Rosen
Zwischen Rosen1997
As Carl Stern
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Coast to Coast2004
As Casimir
TMDb 7.0 / 10
To Be Hamlet1985
As Self
The Reluctant Saint1962
As Giuseppe
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Festival in Cannes2001
As Viktor Kovner
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Shell Seekers2007
As Lawrence Sterne
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Return of the Dancing Master2004
As Fernando Hereira
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Together?1979
As Giovanni
TMDb 4.7 / 10
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler1955
As Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Assisi Underground1985
As Col. Müller
TMDb 4.8 / 10
On the Wings of Love1999
As Hochberg
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Return from the Ashes1965
As Stanislaw Pilgrin
TMDb 6.2 / 10
House of the Sleeping Beauties2006
As Kogi
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Marlene1984
As Himself
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch2002
As Karl Steingraf
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Fifth Column1960
TMDb 8.3 / 10
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz1956
As Dr. Oswald Hauser
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Rose Garden1989
As Aaron
TMDb 6.7 / 10
I Love You, Baby2000
As Walter Ekland
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Darkness2009
TMDb 4.1 / 10
The Vampyre Wars1996
As Rodan
Players1979
As Marco
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Der Meisterdieb
Der Meisterdieb1958
Black Flowers2009
As Jacob Krinsten
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Die Liebe eines Priesters2005
As Father Christoph
TMDb 9.5 / 10
Justice1993
As Isaak Kohler
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Simón Bolívar1969
As Simón Bolívar
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Pedestrian1973
As Andreas Giese
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Tales from the Vienna Woods1979
As Theatre Visitor
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Jedermann Remixed2011
As Jedermann (archive footage)
The Castle1968
As K
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Desperate Ones1967
As Marek
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Taxichauffeur Bänz1957
As Toni Schellenberg
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Man Under Suspicion1984
As Lawyer Landau
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark1961
As Hamlet
TMDb 2.8 / 10
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell2004
As Self
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Labyrinth1991
As The Filmmaker
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Why Havel?1991
Judgment at Nuremberg1959
As Otto Rolfe
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Die venezianischen Zwillinge1966
As Zanetto und Tonio
Five Finger Exercise1962
As Walter
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Girl from Flanders1956
As Alexander Haller
TMDb 8.6 / 10
The Last Ones Shall Be First1957
As Lorenz Darrandt
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Ein Herz kehrt heim1956
As Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music1996
As Self
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Children of the Mountains1958
As Josef Ospel
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Die Alpenklinik2006
As Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
TMDb 2.3 / 10
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums1966
As German Narrator
TMDb 5.8 / 10
You Can't Live Like That1990
As German Commentator
TMDb 5.0 / 10
My Sister Maria2002
As Himself
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Les brigands2015
As Mr. Escher
TMDb 3.4 / 10
Les Îles1983
As Fabrice
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell2010
As Self
Ripening Youth
Ripening Youth1955
As Jürgen Sengebusch
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste1959
As Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Die sechste Frau
Die sechste Frau1959
As Henry Howard
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki2007
As Himself
Die Bernauerin
Die Bernauerin1958
As Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
TMDb 10.0 / 10
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