
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.

The Fifth Column

People's Choice Awards

Bambi

Ein Mädchen aus Flandern

Hallmark Hall of Fame

ニュールンベルグ裁判

Paulina 1880

Abraham

Peter the Great

The Reluctant Saint

Playhouse 90

遠すぎた橋

戦争のはらわた

Die Harald Schmidt Show

I sequestrati di Altona

Marlene

アカデミー賞

Abraham

The Shell Seekers

The Chosen

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

The Dick Cavett Show

The Young Lions

Taxichauffeur Bänz

Joan of Arc

オデッサ・ファイル

Coast to Coast

ブラザーズ・ブルーム

Topkapi

Julia

Wiseguy

NDR Talk Show

Little Odessa

Der Fußgänger

The Rose Garden

The Freshman

ヴァンパイア/最期の聖戦

ディープ・インパクト

The Deadly Affair

Left Luggage

Heidi

A Far Off Place

The Man in the Glass Booth

Return from the Ashes

Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald

Counterpoint

Meine Schwester Maria

Das Schloß

Kölner Treff

Kulturplatz

Sarajevski atentat

Pope Joan

The Black Hole

Krakatoa, East of Java

Der 20. Juli

Kinder, Mütter und ein General

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Young Catherine

Telling Lies in America

St. Ives

The Diary of Anne Frank

Die Rosenkönigin

Festival in Cannes

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

Markus Lanz

Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen

The Phantom of the Opera

Stars in der Manege

初恋

The Assisi Underground

Miss Rose White

Stalin

The Eighteenth Angel

Morgen in Alabama

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio

Der Richter und sein Henker

Simón Bolívar

Justiz

Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers

Amo non amo

Five Finger Exercise

Avalanche Express

Nachtcafé

Alles Glück dieser Erde

Flores Negras

Players

Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel...

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

Riverboat

T.M.A.

Kulturzeit

Les brigands

Candles in the Dark

Так жить нельзя

Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark

Die Alpenklinik

Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften

Fisimatenten

Beckmann

To Be Hamlet

Les Îles

Proč Havel?

Die Liebe eines Priesters

The Vampyre Wars

Der seidene Schuh

Kinder der Berge

Labyrint

The Desperate Ones

Jedermann Remixed

Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

Judgment at Nuremberg

Claudio Abbado: Die Stille nach der Musik

Der Fürst und das Mädchen

Imperium der Päpste

Heut' abend

Der seidene Schuh

Bernstein/Beethoven