Maximilian Schell
Swiss and Austrian film and stage actor (1930-2014) · Switzerland · Actors · Died at 83
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Something wrong?He won an Oscar for prosecuting Nazis on screen, then spent a career circling the wreckage of mid-century Europe - lawyer, resistor, emperor, father in an attic - always in the shadow of the war that drove his family out of Vienna when he was seven.
A life in dates
The Brothers BloomFilm, Diamond Dog2008
Markus LanzSeries2004
KulturplatzSeries
The Return of the Dancing MasterFilm, 2004Fernando Hereira1998The Johannes B. Kerner ShowSeries1997
Telling Lies in AmericaFilm, Dr. Istvan Jonas1995
Die Harald Schmidt ShowSeries1994
Little OdessaFilm, Arkady Shapira1993Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television FilmAward1990
The FreshmanFilm, Larry London1987
NachtcaféSeries1985
The Assisi UndergroundFilm, Col. Müller1983
The Phantom of the OperaFilm, Sandor Korvin/Phantom1980
Heut' abendSeries
The Diary of Anne FrankFilm, 1980Otto Frank1977
A Bridge Too FarFilm, General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich1975
People's Choice AwardsSeries
End of the GameFilm, 1975Director, Writer1968
HeidiFilm, Richard Sessemann1965
Return from the AshesFilm, Stanislaw Pilgrin1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler TheatreSeries1962Academy Award for Best ActorAwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture DramaAward
The Condemned of AltonaFilm, 1962Franz von Gerlach1958
The Young LionsFilm, Capt. Hardenberg1953
The OscarsSeries1948
BambiSeries1930Born8 December 1930Also in Deutsch
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TBThe Brothers Bloom
HBHouse of the Sleeping BeautiesTMThe Return of the Dancing Master
DIDeep Impact
VAVampires
LLLeft LuggageTATelling Lies in America
TAThe Eighteenth Angel
TYThe Thorn Birds: The Missing YearsLOLittle Odessa
APA Far Off Place
ABAbraham
STStalinTFThe Freshman
TGThe Rose GardenTUThe Assisi Underground
MAMarleneTOThe Phantom of the Opera
TCThe ChosenTFThe Diary of Anne Frank
THThe Black Hole
AEAvalanche ExpressAFA Bridge Too Far
CICross of Iron
JUJulia
SISt. Ives
TBThe Man in the Glass BoothEGEnd of the Game
TWThe Day That Shook the World
TFThe Odessa File
KJKrakatoa, East of JavaHEHeidi
TAThe Deadly Affair
COCounterpointRAReturn from the Ashes
TOTopkapiTAThe Condemned of Altona
JNJudgment at Nuremberg
HDHamlet, Prince of DenmarkTLThe Young Lions174 credits on file
Television 24
MLMarkus LanzKUKulturplatz
BEBeckmann
STStoryvilleDSDie Harald Schmidt Show
ABalfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
RIRiverboatNANachtcafé
WIWiseguyHAHeut' abend
NSNDR Talk Show
KTKölner TreffPAPeople's Choice Awards
TSThe Dick Cavett Show
WPWestinghouse Desilu Playhouse
PLPlayhouse 90TOThe OscarsBABambiAwards
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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.
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