Personal Info
Known Credits
100
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1930-12-08 (95 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Also Known For
Максимилиан Шелл
Maximilian Schell
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 Nurember ...
Known For
Acting
2015 --
Les brigands
| Mr. Escher
2011 --
Jedermann Remixed
| Jedermann (archive footage)
2011 --
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
| Self (archive footage)
2010 --
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
| Self
2009 --
Black Flowers
| Jacob Krinsten
2009 --
Darkness
|
2008 --
The Brothers Bloom
| Diamond Dog
2007 --
The Shell Seekers
| Lawrence Sterne
2007 --
Die Rosenkönigin
| Karl Friedrich Weidemann
2007 --
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
| Himself
2006 --
House of the Sleeping Beauties
| Kogi
2006 --
Die Alpenklinik
| Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2005 --
Die Liebe eines Priesters
| Father Christoph
2004 --
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
| Self
2004 --
The Return of the Dancing Master
| Fernando Hereira
2004 --
Coast to Coast
| Casimir
2003 --
Alles Glück dieser Erde
| Xaver Schönborn
2002 --
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
| Karl Steingraf
2002 --
My Sister Maria
| Himself
2001 --
Festival in Cannes
| Viktor Kovner
2000 --
I Love You, Baby
| Walter Ekland
2000 --
Just Messing About
| Poser
1999 --
On the Wings of Love
| Hochberg
1998 --
Vampires
| Cardinal Alba
1998 --
Deep Impact
| Jason Lerner
1998 --
Left Luggage
| Mr. Silberschmidt
1997 --
Telling Lies in America
| Dr. Istvan Jonas
1997 --
Zwischen Rosen
| Carl Stern
1997 --
The Eighteenth Angel
| Father Simeon
1996 --
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
| Cardinal Vittorio
1996 --
The Vampyre Wars
| Rodan
1994 --
Little Odessa
| Arkady Shapira
1993 --
Abraham
| Pharao
1993 --
Candles in the Dark
| Colonel Arkush
1993 --
Justice
| Isaak Kohler
1993 --
A Far Off Place
| Col. Mopani Theron
1992 --
Stalin
| Vladimir Lenin
1992 --
Miss Rose White
| Mordecai Weiss
1991 --
Labyrint
| The Filmmaker
1991 --
Why Havel?
|
1990 --
You Can't Live Like That
| German Commentator
1990 --
The Freshman
| Larry London
1989 --
The Rose Garden
| Aaron
1985 --
The Assisi Underground
| Col. Müller
1985 --
Man Under Suspicion
| Lawyer Landau
1985 --
To Be Hamlet
| Self
1984 --
Marlene
| Himself
1983 --
Les Îles
| Fabrice
1983 --
The Phantom of the Opera
| Sandor Korvin/Phantom
1981 --
The Chosen
| Professor David Malter
1980 --
The Diary of Anne Frank
| Otto Frank
1979 --
The Black Hole
| Dr. Hans Reinhardt
1979 --
Together?
| Giovanni
1979 --
Avalanche Express
| Colonel Nikolai Bunin
1979 --
Players
| Marco
1979 --
Tales from the Vienna Woods
| Theatre Visitor
1977 --
Julia
| Johann
1977 --
A Bridge Too Far
| General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
1977 --
Cross of Iron
| Hauptmann Stransky
1976 --
St. Ives
| Dr. John Constable
1975 --
The Day That Shook the World
| Đuro Šarac
1975 --
The Man in the Glass Booth
| Arthur Goldman
1974 --
The Odessa File
| Eduard Roschmann
1973 --
The Pedestrian
| Andreas Giese
1972 --
Pope Joan
| Adrian
1972 --
Paulina 1880
| Count Michele Cantarini
1970 --
First Love
| Vater
1969 --
Simon Bolivar
| Simón Bolívar
1968 --
Krakatoa, East of Java
| Captain Chris Hanson
1968 --
Heidi
| Richard Sessemann
1968 --
The Castle
| K
1967 --
Counterpoint
| Gen. Schiller
1967 --
The Deadly Affair
| Dieter Frey
1967 --
The Desperate Ones
| Marek
1966 --
Die venezianischen Zwillinge
| Zanetto und Tonio
1966 --
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
| German Narrator
1965 --
Return from the Ashes
| Stanislaw Pilgrin
1965 --
Der seidene Schuh
| Don Rodrigo
1964 --
Topkapi
| Walter Harper
1962 --
The Reluctant Saint
| Giuseppe
1962 --
The Condemned of Altona
| Franz von Gerlach
1962 --
Five Finger Exercise
| Walter
1961 --
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
| Hamlet
1961 --
Judgment at Nuremberg
| Hans Rolfe
1960 --
The Fifth Column
|
1959 --
Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
| Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
1959 --
Judgment at Nuremberg
| Otto Rolfe
1959 --
Die sechste Frau
| Henry Howard
1958 --
Die Bernauerin
| Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
1958 --
Children of the Mountains
| Josef Ospel
1958 --
The Young Lions
| Capt. Hardenberg
1958 --
Der Meisterdieb
|
1957 --
The Last Ones Shall Be First
| Lorenz Darrandt
1957 --
Taxichauffeur Bänz
| Toni Schellenberg
1956 --
Ein Herz kehrt heim
| Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
1956 --
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
| Dr. Oswald Hauser
1956 --
The Girl from Flanders
| Alexander Haller
1955 --
Ripening Youth
| Jürgen Sengebusch
1955 --
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
| Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
1955 --
Children, Mother, and the General
| Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht