Birth Day: 1930-12-08
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
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.
Credits
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As Mr. Escher -
As Jedermann (archive footage) -
As Self
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As Jacob Krinsten -
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As Diamond Dog -
As Lawrence Sterne -
As Karl Friedrich Weidemann -
As Himself -
As Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf -
As Kogi -
As Father Christoph -
As Self -
As Fernando Hereira -
As Casimir -
As Xaver Schönborn -
As Himself -
As Karl Steingraf -
As Viktor Kovner -
As Poser -
As Walter Ekland
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As Hochberg -
As Cardinal Alba -
As Mr. Silberschmidt -
As Jason Lerner -
As Carl Stern
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As Father Simeon -
As Dr. Istvan Jonas -
As Rodan -
As Self -
As Cardinal Vittorio -
As Arkady Shapira -
As Col. Mopani Theron -
As Isaak Kohler -
As Colonel Arkush -
As Pharao -
As Vladimir Lenin -
As Mordecai Weiss -
As The Filmmaker -
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As German Commentator -
As Larry London -
As Aaron -
As Self -
As Col. Müller -
As Lawyer Landau -
As Himself -
As Fabrice -
As Sandor Korvin/Phantom -
As Professor David Malter -
As Otto Frank -
As Theatre Visitor -
As Dr. Hans Reinhardt -
As Colonel Nikolai Bunin -
As Giovanni -
As Marco -
As Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited) -
As General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich -
As Johann -
As Hauptmann Stransky -
As Dr. John Constable -
As Arthur Goldman -
As Đuro Šarac -
As Eduard Roschmann -
As Andreas Giese -
As Count Michele Cantarini -
As Adrian -
As Vater -
As Simón Bolívar -
As Captain Chris Hanson -
As K -
As Richard Sessemann -
As Marek -
As Gen. Schiller -
As Dieter Frey -
As German Narrator -
As Zanetto und Tonio
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As Don Rodrigo -
As Stanislaw Pilgrin -
As Walter Harper -
As Giuseppe -
As Walter -
As Franz von Gerlach -
As Hans Rolfe -
As Hamlet -
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As Henry Howard
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As Otto Rolfe -
As Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
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As Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
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As Capt. Hardenberg -
As Josef Ospel -
As Lorenz Darrandt
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As Toni Schellenberg -
As Dr. Oswald Hauser -
As Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
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As Alexander Haller -
As Jürgen Sengebusch
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As Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht -
As Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises