# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maximilian-schell
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:03:27.642Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Vienna in 1930 to parents in the arts, Maximilian Schell fled to Zürich with his family in 1938 after the Nazi annexation of Austria. He took up acting after the war and won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1961 for playing a lawyer in Judgment at Nuremberg, then earned two more Oscar nominations for The Man in the Glass Booth and Julia. Fluent in English and German, he anchored films like Topkapi, The Odessa File, and A Bridge Too Far, and directed First Love in 1970. On television he won a Golden Globe for playing Stalin and portrayed Otto Frank, Peter the Great, and Frederick the Great across multiple productions. An accomplished pianist and conductor who performed with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, he also directed stage plays and operas; in 2002 he made a documentary about his elder sister, actress Maria Schell. He died in February 2014.