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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Highest Rated: 100% Marlene (1984)

Lowest Rated: 0% Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)

Birthday: Dec 8, 1930

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria

Though he spent a great part of his career playing a variety of roles, actor Maximilian Schell made his name in a number of World War II-themed film and television projects. After taking his first Hollywood bow with a turn as a Nazi officer in "The Young Lions" (1958), Schell won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a dogged defense attorney in the courtroom classic "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961). Not content with being strictly an actor, he also developed a second career as an award-winning director, starting with "First Love" (1970), which earned a foreign picture nomination at the Academy Awards. Over the next few decades, Schell amassed an impressive array of screen credits that included a compelling performance in the title role of "Peter the Great" (NBC, 1986). He earned several awards, including a Golden Globe, for portraying another prominent Russian leader in "Stalin" (HBO, 1992). By that time in his career, Schell was doing his most prominent work on the small screen, while occasionally appearing in niche features and independents. At his death at the age of 83, Schell was long remembered for being perhaps the most famous and accomplished actor to emerge from his native Austria.

Highest rated movies

95% Topkapi
92% Judgment at Nuremberg
80% The Man in the Glass Booth
75% The Chosen
73% Julia
71% Cross of Iron
71% The Young Lions
68% The Brothers Bloom

Photos

COUNTERPOINT, Maximilian Schell, (right), 1968 TOPKAPI, from left: Maximillian Schell, Gilles Segal (back), Peter Ustinov, 1964 COUNTERPOINT, Maximilian Schell, 1968 CROSS OF IRON, Maximilian Schell, James Coburn, 1977 THE ASSISI UNDERGROUND, from left: Ben Cross, Maximilian Schell, 1985. ©Cannon Films TOPKAPI, from left, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Melina Mercouri, 1964 TOPKAPI, from left: Maximillian Schell, Melina Mercouri, 1964 THE CONDEMNED OF ALTONA, (aka I SEQUESTRATI DI ALTONA), from left, Maximilian Schell, Sophia Loren, 1962, TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved. TOPKAPI, Maximilian Schell, Melina Mercouri, 1964 THE CONDEMNED OF ALTONA, (aka I SEQUESTRATI DI ALTONA), Maximilian Schell, 1962, TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved. THE CONDEMNED OF ALTONA, (aka I SEQUESTRATI DI ALTONA), from left, Maximilian Schell, (in photo), Fredric March, Robert Wagner, 1962, TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved. THE DEADLY AFFAIR, Maximilian Schell, 1966 TOPKAPI, from left: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov (back), Gilles Segal, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Maximillian Schell, 1964 TOPKAPI, from left: Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, 1964 TOPKAPI, Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, 1964 A FAR OFF PLACE, from left: Reese Witherspoon, Maxilian Schell, 1993, © Buena Vista CROSS OF IRON, Maxilian Schell, James Coburn, 1977 AVALANCHE EXPRESS, from left: Maximilan Schell, Robert Shaw, 1979. ©20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, TM & Copyright / THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH, first, second and third center left from booth: Maximilian Schell, Berry Kroeger, Lois Nettleton, 1975 THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH, Maximilian Schell, 1975

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Darkness Unknown (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Flores Negras Jacob Krinsten (Character) - 2009
68% 64% The Brothers Bloom Diamond Dog (Character) $3.5M 2008
28% 17% House of the Sleeping Beauties Kogi (Character) $4.5K 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Shell Seekers Unknown (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Shell Seekers Unknown (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 40% The Shell Seekers Unknown (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 21% Coast to Coast Casimir (Character) - 2004
58% 60% My Sister Maria Unknown (Character),
Director,
Writer,
Executive Producer
- 2002
65% 34% Festival in Cannes Viktor Kovner (Character) $299.0K 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Song of the Lark Wunsch (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Love You, Baby Walter Ekland (Character) - 2000
10% 57% Joan of Arc Brother Jean le Maistre (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fisimatenten Unknown (Character) - 1999
43% 47% John Carpenter's Vampires Cardinal Alba (Character) $20.2M 1998
45% 43% Deep Impact Jason Lerner (Character) $140.4M 1998
46% 88% Left Luggage Chaya's Father (Character) $1.3M 1998
61% 45% Telling Lies in America Dr. Istvan Jonas (Character) $275.2K 1997
No Score Yet 42% The Eighteenth Angel Father Simeon (Character) - 1997
53% 69% Little Odessa Arkady Shapira (Character) $989.9K 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Candles in the Dark Colonel Arkush (Character),
Director
- 1993
42% 69% A Far Off Place Col. Mopani Theron (Character) $12.9M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Justiz Isaak Kohler (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 61% Miss Rose White Unknown (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 72% Stalin Vladimir Lenin (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Labyrinth The Filmmaker (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 89% The Rose Garden Aaron (Character) $5.2K 1989
No Score Yet 50% The Assisi Underground Col. Müller (Character) - 1985
100% 95% Marlene Director - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Man Under Suspicion Lawyer Landau (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 47% The Phantom of the Opera Sándor Korvin/The Phantom of the Opera (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Islands Fabrice (Character) - 1983
75% 79% The Chosen Professor David Malter (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 57% The Diary of Anne Frank Otto Frank (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales From the Vienna Woods Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1979
20% 12% Avalanche Express Bunin (Character) - 1979
41% 45% The Black Hole Dr. Hans Reinhardt (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Love You, I Love You Not Giovanni (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Together? Giovanni (Character) - 1979
14% 33% Players Marco (Character) - 1979
59% 85% A Bridge Too Far Lieutenant General Bittrich (Character) - 1977
71% 87% Cross of Iron Hauptmann Stransky (Character) - 1977
73% 70% Julia Johann (Character) - 1977
33% 41% St. Ives Dr. John Constable (Character) - 1976
43% 29% End of the Game Director - 1976
80% 73% The Man in the Glass Booth Arthur Goldman (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Day That Shook the World Djuro Sarac (Character) - 1975
67% 64% The Odessa File Eduard Roschmann (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 17% The Pedestrian Andreas Giese (Character),
Director
- 1974
No Score Yet 33% Pope Joan Adrian (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Simon Bolivar Simón Bolívar (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 67% First Love Father (Character),
Director,
Producer,
Screenwriter
- 1970
0% 26% Krakatoa, East of Java Capt. Chris Hanson (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bolívar Unknown (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Castle "K" (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Counterpoint Gen. Schiller (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 86% Heidi Herr Sessemann (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Desperate Ones Marek (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 65% The Deadly Affair Dieter Frey (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 73% Return From the Ashes Stanislaus Pilgrin (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums Narrator - 1965
95% 68% Topkapi Walter Harper (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 86% The Condemned of Altona Franz von Gerlach (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 85% The Reluctant Saint Giuseppe (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Five Finger Exercise Walter (Character) - 1962
92% 93% Judgment at Nuremberg Hans Rolfe (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 0% Hamlet Hamlet (Character) - 1960
71% 77% The Young Lions Capt. Hardenberg (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Girl From Flanders Lt. Alexander "Alex" Haller (Character) - 1956

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years Cardinal Vittorio (Character) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wiseguy Amado Guzman (Guest Star) 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Peter the Great Peter the Great (Character) 1986