Maximilian Schell
Born in Vienna, Austria — Dec 08 1930• Died Feb 01 2014
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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 wit…
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Bambi
Self - Laudation
The Oscars
Self
People's Choice Awards
Self
Wiseguy
Amado Guzman
German Film Award
Self
Playhouse 90
Otto Rolfe
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
Stars in the Ring
Self
Deep Impact
Jason Lerner
Seitenblicke
self
Joan of Arc
Brother Jean le Maistre
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rose's Father
Semperopernball
Self
Judgment at Nuremberg
Hans Rolfe
A Bridge Too Far
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Cross of Iron
Hauptmann Stransky
Peter the Great
Peter the Great
The Black Hole
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Je später der Abend
Self
The Freshman
Larry London
Julia
Johann
The Brothers Bloom
Diamond Dog
Abraham
Pharaoh
Vampires
Cardinal Alba
A Far Off Place
Col. Mopani Theron
The Young Lions
Capt. Hardenberg
Abraham
Pharao
The Deadly Affair
Dieter Frey
The Odessa File
Eduard Roschmann
Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Young Catherine
Frederick the Great
Little Odessa
Arkady Shapira
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
Self
To Be Hamlet
Self
Heidi
Richard Sessemann
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
Pope Joan
Adrian
I Love You, Baby
Walter Ekland
Avalanche Express
Colonel Nikolai Bunin
The Chosen
Professor David Malter
Topkapi
Walter Harper
St. Ives
Dr. John Constable
First Love
Vater
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Cardinal Vittorio
Coast to Coast
Casimir
The Eighteenth Angel
Father Simeon
The Phantom of the Opera
Sandor Korvin/Phantom
The Shell Seekers
Lawrence Sterne
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
Krakatoa, East of Java
Captain Chris Hanson
Telling Lies in America
Dr. Istvan Jonas
Marlene
Himself
The Three Musketeers
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Franz Steininger
Festival in Cannes
Viktor Kovner
The Condemned of Altona
Franz von Gerlach
The Man in the Glass Booth
Arthur Goldman
The Return of the Dancing Master
Fernando Hereira
End of the Game
Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
The Rose Garden
Aaron
Der seidene Schuh
Don Rodrigo
Children, Mother, and the General
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
Black Flowers
Jacob Krinsten
The Reluctant Saint
Giuseppe
The Pedestrian
Andreas Giese
The Assisi Underground
Col. Müller
The Clown
Production
Why Havel?
Players
Marco
Counterpoint
Gen. Schiller
The Day That Shook the World
Đuro Šarac
Together?
Giovanni
Jedermann Remixed
Jedermann (archive footage)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Otto Rolfe
Les brigands
Mr. Escher
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Kogi
Die Föhnforscher
Production
Left Luggage
Mr. Silberschmidt
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Father Christoph
The Girl from Flanders
Alexander Haller
Les Îles
Fabrice
Return from the Ashes
Stanislaw Pilgrin
Justice
Isaak Kohler
Five Finger Exercise
Walter
Darkness
The Desperate Ones
Marek
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Dr. Oswald Hauser
Die Rosenkönigin
Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Miss Rose White
Mordecai Weiss
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Candles in the Dark
Colonel Arkush
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Hamlet
Bernstein/Beethoven
Self (commentary)
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
German Narrator
Paulina 1880
Count Michele Cantarini
Trotta
Writing
On the Wings of Love
Hochberg
Zwischen Rosen
Carl Stern
Children of the Mountains
Josef Ospel
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Karl Steingraf
Just Messing About
Poser
The Castle
K
The Fifth Column
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Theatre Visitor
The Vampyre Wars
Rodan
Der seidene Schuh
Don Rodrigo
Labyrinth
The Filmmaker
Ripening Youth
Jürgen Sengebusch
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Lorenz Darrandt
Der Meisterdieb
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
Zanetto und Tonio
Imperium der Päpste
Sprecher
Alles zum Guten
Directing
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Xaver Schönborn
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Toni Schellenberg
You Can't Live Like That
German Commentator
Ein Herz kehrt heim
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Man Under Suspicion
Lawyer Landau
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
Self
Die Alpenklinik
Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Self
Die Bernauerin
Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
My Sister Maria
Himself
Die sechste Frau
Henry Howard
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
Himself
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
Self