Maximilian Schell
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 Nurem
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.
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Born
Dec 08, 1930
Vienna, Austria
Died
Feb 01, 2014
Known For
Acting
Movies
101 acting
21 crew
Popularity
1.2
Known For
Deep Impact
1998
as Jason Lerner
A Bridge Too Far
1977
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Vampires
1998
as Cardinal Alba
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
as Hans Rolfe
Cross of Iron
1977
as Hauptmann Stransky
The Black Hole
1979
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Julia
1977
as Johann
Little Odessa
1994
as Arkady Shapira
The Brothers Bloom
2008
as Diamond Dog
Topkapi
1964
as Walter Harper
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