
Actor · Director · Writer · 36 credits
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 Brothers Bloom
2008
Diamond Dog

The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
Fernando Hereira

Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002
Franz Steininger
Brother Jean le Maistre

Vampires
1998
Cardinal Alba

Deep Impact
1998
Jason Lerner

Telling Lies in America
1997
Dr. Istvan Jonas

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
Cardinal Vittorio

Little Odessa
1994
Arkady Shapira

Abraham
1993
Pharaoh

Abraham
1993
Pharao

A Far Off Place
1993
Col. Mopani Theron

Stalin
1992
Vladimir Lenin

Young Catherine
1991
Frederick the Great

The Freshman
1990
Larry London

Wiseguy
1987
Amado Guzman

Peter the Great
1986
Peter the Great

The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
Otto Frank

The Black Hole
1979
Dr. Hans Reinhardt

Avalanche Express
1979
Colonel Nikolai Bunin

Julia
1977
Johann

A Bridge Too Far
1977
General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich

Cross of Iron
1977
Hauptmann Stransky

End of the Game
1975
Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)

The Man in the Glass Booth
1975
Arthur Goldman

The Odessa File
1974
Eduard Roschmann

Krakatoa, East of Java
1969
Captain Chris Hanson

Counterpoint
1967
Gen. Schiller

The Deadly Affair
1967
Dieter Frey

The Condemned of Altona
1962
Franz von Gerlach

Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Hans Rolfe

The Young Lions
1958
Capt. Hardenberg

Playhouse 90
1956
Otto Rolfe

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Rose's Father