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Maximilian Schell

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Known For

83 Years Old

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.

Born

Vienna, Austria on 8th December 1930

Died

1st February 2014

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Die Harald Schmidt Show
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Playhouse 90
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Kölner Treff
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A Bridge Too Far
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Judgment at Nuremberg
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The Black Hole
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The Deadly Affair
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The Man in the Glass Booth
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Heidi
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A Far Off Place
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Counterpoint
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The Chosen
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Avalanche Express
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Coast to Coast
Casimir
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
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Return from the Ashes
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The Shell Seekers
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The Assisi Underground
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The Day That Shook the World
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Candles in the Dark
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The Condemned of Altona
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The Girl from Flanders
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Miss Rose White
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Pope Joan
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Simon Bolivar
Simón Bolívar
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The Return of the Dancing Master
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The Reluctant Saint
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The Vampyre Wars
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Left Luggage
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Black Flowers
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First Love
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
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The Rose Garden
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The Eighteenth Angel
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Judgment at Nuremberg
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Die Alpenklinik
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Five Finger Exercise
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The Pedestrian
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Together?
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Players
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The Phantom of the Opera
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Tales from the Vienna Woods
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Ein Herz kehrt heim
Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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To Be Hamlet
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The Desperate Ones
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Alles Glück dieser Erde
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The Fifth Column
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My Sister Maria
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Die Rosenkönigin
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Man Under Suspicion
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Die Liebe eines Priesters
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The Castle
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The Filmmaker
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You Can't Live Like That
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Children, Mother, and the General
Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
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Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
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Paulina 1880
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Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
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John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
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On the Wings of Love
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Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
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Children of the Mountains
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Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
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The Last Ones Shall Be First
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In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
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Taxichauffeur Bänz
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Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
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Just Messing About
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Why Havel?
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Zwischen Rosen
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Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
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