Maximilian Schell

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.

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Deep Impact

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Vampires

6.3

A Bridge Too Far

7.2

Judgment at Nuremberg

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The Brothers Bloom

6.6

The Black Hole

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Cross of Iron

7.1

The Freshman

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Little Odessa

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The Odessa File

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Topkapi

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Julia

6.5

The Young Lions

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The Deadly Affair

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Joan of Arc

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The Oscars

6.9

A Far Off Place

6.2

St. Ives

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Avalanche Express

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Abraham

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Krakatoa, East of Java

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Telling Lies in America

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Stalin

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The Eighteenth Angel

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Wiseguy

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Left Luggage

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The Chosen

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Return from the Ashes

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The Man in the Glass Booth

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The Dick Cavett Show

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Counterpoint

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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

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Young Catherine

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House of the Sleeping Beauties

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Die Harald Schmidt Show

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The Condemned of Altona

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Heidi

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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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The Diary of Anne Frank

5.5

Marlene

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Markus Lanz

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The Rose Garden

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The Return of the Dancing Master

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Black Flowers

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Darkness

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Tales from the Vienna Woods

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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

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The Day That Shook the World

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The Phantom of the Opera

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Pope Joan

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The Shell Seekers

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First Love

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Simon Bolivar

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The Assisi Underground

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Children, Mother, and the General

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

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Playhouse 90

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The Pedestrian

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The Reluctant Saint

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Die Rosenkönigin

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My Sister Maria

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The Castle

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Justice

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Peter the Great

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Together?

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Players

4.1

Miss Rose White

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The Girl from Flanders

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Les brigands

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Coast to Coast

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

5.3

NDR Talk Show

6.5

Five Finger Exercise

4.8

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

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Stars in the Ring

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Riverboat

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Nachtcafé

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Alles Glück dieser Erde

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Die Alpenklinik

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Taxichauffeur Bänz

6.8

Paulina 1880

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Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften

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Golden Camera Awards

3.5

Menschen bei Maischberger

4.5

Kölner Treff

6.0

Beckmann

2.0

Kulturzeit

3.5

On the Wings of Love

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Festival in Cannes

6.0

The Fifth Column

9.5

Man Under Suspicion

5.0

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

5.0

Ein Herz kehrt heim

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Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

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Candles in the Dark

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You Can't Live Like That

3.0

V.I.P. Schaukel

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Deutscher Filmpreis

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Romy Award

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BAMBI Awards

9.0

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

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alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio

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Kulturplatz

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Abraham

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G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten

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I Love You, Baby

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To Be Hamlet

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Les Îles

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Why Havel?

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Die Liebe eines Priesters

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The Last Ones Shall Be First

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The Vampyre Wars

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Der seidene Schuh

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Die Bernauerin

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Die venezianischen Zwillinge

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Children of the Mountains

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Ripening Youth

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Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

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Labyrint

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Zwischen Rosen

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Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste

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Die sechste Frau

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The Desperate Ones

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Der Meisterdieb

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Jedermann Remixed

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

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In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

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Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell

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Show Stories

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The Three Musketeers

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Der Fürst und das Mädchen

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Imperium der Päpste

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Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski

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Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz

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Bavarian Film Award

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Servus, Hansi Hinterseer

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Lebens-Künstler

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Je später der Abend

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Gero von Boehm begegnet...

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Seitenblicke

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Tonight

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Semperopernball

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