Acting

2015

as Mr. Escher

2011		Jedermann Remixed as Jedermann (archive footage)
2011		Passion & Poetry: Sam's War as Self (archive footage)

2010

as Self

2009		Black Flowers as Jacob Krinsten
2009		Darkness

2008

as Diamond Dog

2007		The Shell Seekers as Lawrence Sterne
2007		Die Rosenkönigin as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
2007		Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki as Himself

2006		House of the Sleeping Beauties as Kogi
2006		Die Alpenklinik as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf

2005

as Father Christoph

2004		In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell as Self
2004		The Return of the Dancing Master as Fernando Hereira
2004		Coast to Coast as Casimir

2003

as Xaver Schönborn

2002		Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch as Karl Steingraf
2002		My Sister Maria as Himself

2001

as Viktor Kovner

2000

as Walter Ekland

1999

as Hochberg

1998		Vampires as Cardinal Alba
1998		Deep Impact as Jason Lerner
1998		Left Luggage as Mr. Silberschmidt

1997		Telling Lies in America as Dr. Istvan Jonas
1997		Zwischen Rosen as Carl Stern
1997		The Eighteenth Angel as Father Simeon

1996		The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years as Cardinal Vittorio
1996		The Vampyre Wars as Rodan

1994

as Arkady Shapira

1993		Abraham as Pharao
1993		Candles in the Dark as Colonel Arkush
1993		Justice as Isaak Kohler
1993		A Far Off Place as Col. Mopani Theron

1992		Stalin as Vladimir Lenin
1992		Miss Rose White as Mordecai Weiss

1991

1990		You Can't Live Like That as German Commentator
1990		The Freshman as Larry London

1989

as Aaron

1985		The Assisi Underground as Col. Müller
1985		Man Under Suspicion as Lawyer Landau
1985		To Be Hamlet as Maximilian Schell

1984

as Himself

1983		Les Îles as Fabrice
1983		The Phantom of the Opera as Sandor Korvin/Phantom

1981

as Professor David Malter

1980

as Otto Frank

1979		The Black Hole as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
1979		Together? as Giovanni
1979		Avalanche Express as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
1979		Players as Marco
1979		Tales from the Vienna Woods as Theatre Visitor

1977		Julia as Johann
1977		A Bridge Too Far as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
1977		Cross of Iron as Hauptmann Stransky

1976

as Dr. John Constable

1975		The Day That Shook the World as Đuro Šarac
1975		The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman

1974

as Eduard Roschmann

1973

as Andreas Giese

1972		Pope Joan as Adrian
1972		Paulina 1880

1970

as Vater

1969

as Simón Bolívar

1968		Krakatoa, East of Java as Captain Chris Hanson
1968		Heidi as Richard Sessemann
1968		The Castle as K

1967		Counterpoint as Gen. Schiller
1967		The Deadly Affair as Dieter Frey
1967		The Desperate Ones as Marek

1966		Die venezianischen Zwillinge as Zanetto und Tonio
1966		John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums as German Narrator

1965		Return from the Ashes as Stanislaw Pilgrin
1965		Der seidene Schuh as Don Rodrigo

1964

as Walter Harper

1962		The Reluctant Saint as Giuseppe
1962		The Condemned of Altona as Franz von Gerlach
1962		Five Finger Exercise as Walter

1961		Hamlet, Prince of Denmark as Hamlet
1961		Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe

1960

1959		Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
1959		Die sechste Frau as Henry Howard

1958		Die Bernauerin as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
1958		Kinder der Berge as Josef Ospel
1958		The Young Lions as Capt. Hardenberg
1958		Der Meisterdieb

1957		The Last Ones Shall Be First as Lorenz Darrandt
1957		Taxichauffeur Bänz as Toni Schellenberg

1956		Ein Herz kehrt heim as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
1956		Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz as Dr. Oswald Hauser
1956		The Girl from Flanders as Alexander Haller

1955		Ripening Youth as Jürgen Sengebusch
1955		The Plot to Assassinate Hitler as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
1955		Children, Mother, and the General as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht

Directing

2002

… Director

1993

… Director

1984

… Director

1979

… Director

1975

… Director

1973

… Director

1970

… Director

1967

… Director

Writing

1979

… Writer

1975

… Writer

1973

… Writer

1971

… Screenplay

1970

… Writer

1968

… Writer

Production

2002

… Executive Producer

1979

… Producer

1976

… Producer

1975

… Producer

1973

… Producer