Profile of Maximilian Schell
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Maximilian Schell

Born
1930-12-08
Birthplace
Vienna,
Austria
Born
1930-12-08
Died
2014-02-01
(83 years old)
Birthplace
Vienna
Austria
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 st......

Profile of Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Born
1930-12-08
Died
2014-02-01
(83 years old)
Birthplace
Vienna
Austria
Born
1930-12-08
Died
2014-02-01
(83 years old)
Birthplace
Vienna
Austria
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.

152 titles with 173 credits

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Markus Lanz poster

2008

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Die Harald Schmidt Show poster

1995

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NDR Talk Show poster

1979

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Kölner Treff poster

1976

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The Johannes B. Kerner Show poster

1998

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The Dick Cavett Show poster

1968

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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre poster

1963

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Riverboat poster

1992

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Nachtcafé poster

1987

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Wiseguy poster

1987

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Beckmann poster

1999

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Bambi poster

1948

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The Oscars poster

1953

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People's Choice Awards poster

1975

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Kulturzeit poster

1995

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Menschen bei Maischberger poster

2003

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German Film Award poster

1951

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G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten poster

2005

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Playhouse 90 poster

1956

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alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio poster

1994

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Kulturplatz poster

2004

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse poster

1958

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Deep Impact poster

1998

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Stars in the Ring poster

1959

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V.I.P. Schaukel poster

1971

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Heut' abend poster

1980

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Seitenblicke poster

1987

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Bavarian Film Awards poster

1979

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Vampires poster

1998

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A Bridge Too Far poster

1977

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Gero von Boehm begegnet... poster

2002

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Judgment at Nuremberg poster

1961

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Cross of Iron poster

1977

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Joan of Arc poster

1999

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Peter the Great poster

1986

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Hallmark Hall of Fame poster

1951

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The Brothers Bloom poster

2008

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The Black Hole poster

1979

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The Freshman poster

1990

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Little Odessa poster

1994

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Topkapi poster

1964

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The Odessa File poster

1974

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Julia poster

1977

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The Young Lions poster

1958

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The Deadly Affair poster

1967

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A Far Off Place poster

1993

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St. Ives poster

1976

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Abraham poster

1993

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Avalanche Express poster

1979

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Telling Lies in America poster

1997

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Krakatoa, East of Java poster

1969

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Stalin poster

1992

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The Eighteenth Angel poster

1997

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Return from the Ashes poster

1965

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Left Luggage poster

1998

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The Chosen poster

1981

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The Man in the Glass Booth poster

1975

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End of the Game poster

1978

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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years poster

1996

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Counterpoint poster

1967

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Young Catherine poster

1991

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Abraham poster

1994

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Je später der Abend poster

1973

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Der Fürst und das Mädchen poster

2003

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Semperopernball poster

2006

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Lebens-Künstler poster

1995

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Showgeschichten poster

1986

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House of the Sleeping Beauties poster

2006

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Heidi poster

1968

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The Condemned of Altona poster

1962

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The Diary of Anne Frank poster

1980

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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark poster

1961

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Marlene poster

1984

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The Rose Garden poster

1989

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The Return of the Dancing Master poster

2004

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The Phantom of the Opera poster

1983

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Darkness poster

2009

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Pope Joan poster

1972

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The Assisi Underground poster

1985

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Black Flowers poster

2009

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The Day That Shook the World poster

1975

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Simón Bolívar poster

1969

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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler poster

1955

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Tales from the Vienna Woods poster

1979

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The Shell Seekers poster

2007

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Miss Rose White poster

1992

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Justice poster

1993

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First Love poster

1970

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The Castle poster

1968

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The Clown poster

1976

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Children, Mother, and the General poster

1955

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Coast to Coast poster

2004

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The Reluctant Saint poster

1962

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The Pedestrian poster

1973

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My Sister Maria poster

2002

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Players poster

1979

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Together? poster

1979

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Les brigands poster

2015

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Die Rosenkönigin poster

2007

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The Girl from Flanders poster

1956

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Five Finger Exercise poster

1962

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Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften poster

2002

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Trotta poster

1971

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

1966

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Festival in Cannes poster

2001

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Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch poster

2002

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Paulina 1880 poster

1972

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Taxichauffeur Bänz poster

1957

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Alles Glück dieser Erde poster

2003

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Die Alpenklinik poster

2006

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You Can't Live Like That poster

1990

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Candles in the Dark poster

1993

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Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz poster

1956

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The Fifth Column poster

1960

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Just Messing About poster

2000

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The Last Ones Shall Be First poster

1957

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Man Under Suspicion poster

1984

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Ein Herz kehrt heim poster

1956

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On the Wings of Love poster

1999

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Judgment at Nuremberg poster

1959

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I Love You, Baby poster

2000

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Les Îles poster

1983

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Die Föhnforscher poster

1985

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Labyrinth poster

1991

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Ripening Youth poster

1955

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The Desperate Ones poster

1967

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Bernstein/Beethoven poster

1982

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Der seidene Schuh poster

1965

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Die Liebe eines Priesters poster

2005

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In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell poster

2004

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Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music poster

1996

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Children of the Mountains poster

1958

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Die Bernauerin poster

1958

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Zwischen Rosen poster

1997

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Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski poster

2010

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Sternstunde Kunst poster

1998

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Servus, Hansi Hinterseer poster

2004

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The Three Musketeers poster

1968

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Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz poster

2007

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To Be Hamlet poster

1985

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Der seidene Schuh poster

1965

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Jedermann Remixed poster

2011

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The Vampyre Wars poster

1996

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Why Havel? poster

1991

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Die venezianischen Zwillinge poster

1966

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Alles zum Guten poster

1967

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Imperium der Päpste poster

2008

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Die sechste Frau poster

1959

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Der Meisterdieb poster

1958

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

2007

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Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste poster

1959

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Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell poster

2010

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