Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Known For:Acting
Gender:Male
Birthday:1930-12-08
Place of Birth:Vienna, Austria
Also Known As: Максимилиан Шелл /
Known For: Acting Gender: Male Birthday: 1930-12-08 More

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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 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.
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Darkness
Horror Thriller
The Brothers Bloom
Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Die Rosenkönigin
Romance Family Drama
Kulturplatz
News Documentary
Coast to Coast
Drama TV Movie
I Love You, Baby
Drama Comedy Thriller Romance
Vampires
Action Fantasy Horror
Deep Impact
Action Drama Science Fiction
The Eighteenth Angel
Horror Mystery Thriller
Abraham
Adventure Drama TV Movie
A Far Off Place
Drama Adventure
Stalin
Drama History War TV Movie
Miss Rose White
Drama TV Movie
Why Havel?
Documentary
Young Catherine
Drama War & Politics
Wiseguy
Crime Drama Action & Adventure
Peter the Great
War & Politics Drama
Marlene
Documentary
The Phantom of the Opera
Drama Horror TV Movie
The Black Hole
Adventure Science Fiction Action
Players
Drama Romance
Julia
Drama Romance Thriller
A Bridge Too Far
Drama History War
Cross of Iron
Drama Action History War
St. Ives
Action Crime Thriller
Pope Joan
Drama History
Paulina 1880
Drama Romance
V.I.P. Schaukel
Talk Documentary
First Love
Drama Romance
Krakatoa, East of Java
Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Heidi
Drama Family TV Movie
The Castle
Mystery Drama
Counterpoint
War Drama Thriller
The Deadly Affair
Thriller Mystery Drama
Topkapi
Comedy Crime Adventure
The Reluctant Saint
Drama History Comedy
Die Bernauerin
Drama TV Movie
The Young Lions
War Drama Action
  • name:Maximilian Schell
  • Known For:Acting
  • Gender:Male
  • Birthday:1930-12-08
  • Place of Birth:Vienna, Austria
  • Also Known As: Максимилиан Шелл ·
  • Biography: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.
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