Maximilian Schell

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 136

Gender Male

Birthday 1930-12-08

Day of Death 2014-02-01 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Vienna, Austria

Also Known As

Максимилиан Шелл

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Maximilian Schell

Biography

Was an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961. He is also a writer, director and producer of several films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maximilian Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

2015

as Mr. Escher

2011

2010

as as himself

2009		Black Flowers as Jacob Krinsten
2009		Darkness

2008		The Brothers Bloom as Diamond Dog
2008		Markus Lanz (1 episode) as Self
2008		Imperium der Päpste (3 episodes) as Sprecher

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		Alles Glück dieser Erde as Xaver Schönborn
2003		Der Fürst und das Mädchen (40 episodes) as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald (0 episodes)
2003		Menschen bei Maischberger (1 episode) as Self

2002		Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch as Karl Steingraf
2002		Gero von Boehm begegnet... (1 episode) as Self
2002		My Sister Maria as Himself
2002		Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften (1 episode) as Franz Steininger

2001

as Viktor Kovner

2000

as Walter Ekland

1999		Joan of Arc (2 episodes) as Brother Jean le Maistre
1999		On the Wings of Love as Hochberg
1999		Beckmann (3 episodes) as Self

1998		Vampires as Kardinal Alba
1998		Deep Impact as Jason Lerner
1998		Left Luggage as Mr. Silberschmidt
1998		Die Johannes B. Kerner Show (3 episodes) as Self

1997		Telling Lies in America as Dr. Istvan Jonas
1997		Leute heute (1 episode) as self
1997		Zwischen Rosen as Carl Stern
1997		The Eighteenth Angel as Father Simeon

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

1995		Die Harald Schmidt Show (2 episodes) as Self
1995		Kulturzeit (1 episode) as self

1994		Alfredissimo! - Kochen mit Bio (1 episode) as Self
1994		Little Odessa 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
1992		Riverboat (1 episode) as Self

1991		Why Havel?
1991		Young Catherine (2 episodes) as Frederick the Great

1990		You Can't Live Like That as German Commentator
1990		The Freshman as Larry London
1990		Romy Award (1 episode) as himself

1989

as Aaron

1987		Seitenblicke (1 episode) as self
1987		Wiseguy (75 episodes)

1986		Showgeschichten (1 episode) as self
1986		Peter the Great (4 episodes) as Peter the Great

1985		The Assisi Underground as Col. Müller
1985		Man Under Suspicion as Lawyer Landau

1984

as Himself

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

1981

as Professor David Malter

1980		The Diary of Anne Frank as Otto Frank
1980		Heut' abend (1 episode) as Self

1979		The Black Hole as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
1979		Together? as Giovanni
1979		Bayerischer Filmpreis (1 episode) as Self
1979		Avalanche Express as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
1979		Players as Marco
1979		NDR Talk Show (1 episode) as Self
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		St. Ives as Dr. John Constable
1976		Kölner Treff (2 episodes) as Self

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		The Pedestrian as Andreas Giese
1973		Je später der Abend (1 episode) as Self

1972		Pope Joan as Adrian
1972		Paulina 1880

1971

(1 episode) as Self

1970

as Vater

1969

as Simón Bolívar

1968		Krakatoa, East of Java as Captain Chris Hanson
1968		Heidi as Richard Sessemann
1968		The Three Musketeers (19 episodes)
1968		The Castle as K
1968		The Dick Cavett Show (1 episode) as Self - Guest

1967		Counterpoint as Gen. Schiller
1967		The Desperate Ones as Marek

1966		Die venezianischen Zwillinge as Zanetto und Tonio
1966		The Deadly Affair as Dieter Frey
1966		John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums as German Narrator
1966		Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1 episode) as Self - Presenter

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

1964

as Walter Harper

1963

(1 episode)

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

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

1960

1959		Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
1959		Stars in der Manege (1 episode) as Self
1959		Die sechste Frau as Henry Howard

1958		Die Bernauerin as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
1958		Kinder der Berge as Josef Ospel
1958		Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1 episode)
1958		The Young Lions as Capt. Hardenberg
1958		Der Meisterdieb

1957		Die Letzten werden die Ersten sein 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		Reifende Jugend 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

1953

(4 episodes) as Self

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 episode) as Rose's Father
1951		German Film Awards (3 episodes) as Self

1948		The Ed Sullivan Show (1 episode) as Hans Rolfe (archive footage)
1948		Bambi Awards (2 episodes) as Self (1 episode) as Self - Laudatio

Directing

2002

… Director

1993

… Director

1984

… Director

1979

… Director

1975

… Director

1973

… Director

1970

… Director

1967

… Director

Writing

1979

… Writer

1975

… Screenplay

1973

… Writer

1971

… Screenplay

1970

… Writer

1968

… Writer

Production

2002

… Executive Producer

1979

… Producer

1976

… Producer

1975

… Producer

Creator

2008

… Creator

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