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 BolÃvar (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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Brothers Bloom (2008) | Diamond Dog | 6.8 | |
| 2 | Die Rosenkönigin (2007) | Karl Friedrich Weidemann | 6 | |
| 3 | House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006) | Kogi | - | - |
| 4 | Left Luggage (1998) | Mr. Silberschmidt | 3 | |
| 5 | Deep Impact (1998) | Jason Lerner | 6.4 | |
| 6 | Vampires (1998) | Cardinal Alba | 6.5 | |
| 7 | Telling Lies in America (1997) | Dr. Istvan Jonas | - | - |
| 8 | Little Odessa (1994) | Arkady Shapira | 6 | |
| 9 | A Far Off Place (1993) | Col. Mopani Theron | 6.5 | |
| 10 | Abraham (1993) | Pharao | - | - |
| 11 | Stalin (1992) | Vladimir Lenin | - | - |
| 12 | The Freshman (1990) | Larry London | 6.5 | |
| 13 | The Chosen (1981) | Professor David Malter | 6 | |
| 14 | Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 15 | The Black Hole (1979) | Dr. Hans Reinhardt | 6.1 | |
| 16 | Avalanche Express (1979) | Colonel Nikolai Bunin | 5 | |
| 17 | Cross of Iron (1977) | Hauptmann Stransky | 6 | |
| 18 | A Bridge Too Far (1977) | General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich | 7.9 | |
| 19 | Julia (1977) | Johann | - | - |
| 20 | The Odessa File (1974) | Eduard Roschmann | 6 | |
| 21 | The Pedestrian (1973) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 22 | Trotta (1971) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 23 | First Love (1970) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 24 | Return from the Ashes (1965) | Stanislaw Pilgrin | 6 | |
| 25 | Topkapi (1964) | Walter Harper | 7 | |
| 26 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1961) | Hamlet | 4 | |
| 27 | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) | Hans Rolfe | 7.9 | |
| 28 | The Young Lions (1958) | Capt. Hardenberg | 6 |

