Acting credits
119
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Maximilian Schell
Acting
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Movies: 91Series: 30Crew credits: 11
TMDB ID: 12150
IMDb ID: nm0001703
Known for: Acting
Born: December 8, 1930
Died: February 1, 2014
Age: 83
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2015
Years active: 68
Average TMDB rating: 6.28
Wikidata: Q153018
Other jobs
Director (5)Writer (2)Creator (1)Executive Producer (1)Producer (1)Screenplay (1)
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Maximilian Schell.
3.4
Les brigands
as Mr. Escher
2015 Movie
Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)
2011 Movie
4.4
Black Flowers
as Jacob Krinsten
2009 Movie
3.6
Darkness
2009 Movie
6.6
The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond Dog
2008 Movie
6.9
The Shell Seekers
as Lawrence Sterne
2007 Movie
5.6
Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
2007 Movie
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
as Himself
2007 Movie
5.4
House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Kogi
2006 Movie
2.3
Die Alpenklinik
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2006 Movie
Die Liebe eines Priesters
as Father Christoph
2005 Movie
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
as Self
2004 Movie
4.8
The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando Hereira
2004 Movie
6.6
Coast to Coast
as Casimir
2004 Movie
4.5
Alles Glück dieser Erde
as Xaver Schönborn
2003 Movie
5.0
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Karl Steingraf
2002 Movie
6.0
My Sister Maria
as Himself
2002 Movie
5.5
Festival in Cannes
as Viktor Kovner
2001 Movie
2.0
Just Messing About
as Poser
2000 Movie
4.0
On the Wings of Love
as Hochberg
1999 Movie
6.3
Vampires
as Cardinal Alba
1998 Movie
6.2
Deep Impact
as Jason Lerner
1998 Movie
6.2
Left Luggage
as Mr. Silberschmidt
1998 Movie
5.7
Telling Lies in America
as Dr. Istvan Jonas
1997 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Maximilian Schell.
5.5
Markus Lanz
as Self • 1 eps
2008 Series
Imperium der Päpste
as Sprecher • 3 eps
2008 Series
6.0
Kulturplatz
as Self • 1 eps
2004 Series
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003 Series
2.3
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
as Franz Steininger • 1 eps
2002 Series
6.6
Joan of Arc
as Brother Jean le Maistre • 2 eps
1999 Series
2.0
Beckmann
as Self • 3 eps
1999 Series
7.1
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self • 2 eps
1995 Series
3.5
Kulturzeit
as self • 1 eps
1995 Series
5.0
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
as Self • 1 eps
1994 Series
8.0
Abraham
as Pharaoh • 2 eps
1994 Series
4.0
Riverboat
as Self • 1 eps
1992 Series
5.7
Young Catherine
as Frederick the Great • 2 eps
1991 Series
6.5
Wiseguy
as Amado Guzman • 9 eps
1987 Series
4.7
Nachtcafé
as Self • 1 eps
1987 Series
7.9
Peter the Great
as Peter the Great • 4 eps
1986 Series
Bernstein/Beethoven
as Self (commentary) • 11 eps
1982 Series
Heut' abend
as Self • 1 eps
1980 Series
6.5
NDR Talk Show
as Self • 1 eps
1979 Series
6.0
Kölner Treff
as Self • 2 eps
1976 Series
9.2
People's Choice Awards
as Self • 1 eps
1975 Series
7.5
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self • 1 eps
1971 Series
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1968 Series
Der seidene Schuh
as Don Rodrigo • 4 eps
1965 Series