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Regular directing credits.
Director
Maximilian Schell
Acting
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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 0All crew 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
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Director (6)Producer (2)Creator (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maximilian Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies directed by Maximilian Schell.
Movies
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Highest rated movies linked with Maximilian Schell.
8.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Hans Rolfe
1961 Movie
7.2
A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
1977 Movie
7.1
Cross of Iron
as Hauptmann Stransky
1977 Movie
6.8
The Young Lions
as Capt. Hardenberg
1958 Movie
6.6
The Odessa File
as Eduard Roschmann
1974 Movie
6.6
The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond Dog
2008 Movie
6.5
Julia
as Johann
1977 Movie
6.5
Topkapi
as Walter Harper
1964 Movie
6.4
Little Odessa
as Arkady Shapira
1994 Movie
6.3
Vampires
as Cardinal Alba
1998 Movie
6.3
The Freshman
as Larry London
1990 Movie
6.2
Deep Impact
as Jason Lerner
1998 Movie
Series
Top Rated Series
Highest rated series linked with Maximilian Schell.
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Maximilian Schell.
6.2
Deep Impact
as Jason Lerner
1998 Movie
6.0
Counterpoint
as Gen. Schiller
1967 Movie
7.2
A Bridge Too Far
as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
1977 Movie
7.0
Marlene
Director
1984 Movie
6.3
Vampires
as Cardinal Alba
1998 Movie
6.2
Heidi
as Richard Sessemann
1968 Movie
5.8
The Black Hole
as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
1979 Movie
8.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Hans Rolfe
1961 Movie
3.6
Darkness
2009 Movie
6.5
Julia
as Johann
1977 Movie
7.1
Cross of Iron
as Hauptmann Stransky
1977 Movie
6.3
The Freshman
as Larry London
1990 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Maximilian Schell.
5.5
Markus Lanz
as Self • 1 eps
2008 Series
9.0
Bambi
as Self - Laudation • 1 eps
1948 Series
7.1
The Oscars
as Self • 4 eps
1953 Series
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1968 Series
7.1
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self • 2 eps
1995 Series
6.5
NDR Talk Show
as Self • 1 eps
1979 Series
6.5
Wiseguy
as Amado Guzman • 9 eps
1987 Series
4.7
Nachtcafé
as Self • 1 eps
1987 Series
6.0
Kölner Treff
as Self • 2 eps
1976 Series
3.5
Kulturzeit
as self • 1 eps
1995 Series
9.2
People's Choice Awards
as Self • 1 eps
1975 Series
2.0
Beckmann
as Self • 3 eps
1999 Series
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Maximilian Schell.
Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Maximilian Schell.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for 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
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for 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