Maximilian Schell [12150] Gender: Male Popularity: 1.0443 Birthplace: Vienna, Austria Birthday: 1930-12-08 Deathday: 2014-02-01 Age: 83 years Movies: 100 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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 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 BolÃvar (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. Les brigands2015-02-26 Jedermann Remixe2011-07-31 Passion & Poetry2011-06-06 Maximilian Schel2010-12-03 Black Flowers2009-09-18 Darkness2009-07-07 The Brothers Blo2008-09-09 Die Rosenkönigi2007-10-05 Verstörung - un2007-06-11 The Shell Seeker2007-10-18 House of the Sle2006-11-02 Die Alpenklinik2006-05-01 Die Liebe eines 2005-05-20 In Conversation:2004-09-07 The Return of th2004-04-08 Coast to Coast2004-04-03 Der Bestseller -2002-11-08 Alles Glück die2003-12-21 My Sister Maria2002-03-01 Festival in Cann2001-11-03 I Love You, Baby2000-04-20 Just Messing Abo2000-01-06 On the Wings of 1999-04-08 Vampires1998-10-30 Deep Impact1998-05-08 Left Luggage1998-03-30 Telling Lies in 1997-08-02 Zwischen Rosen1997-02-18 The Eighteenth A1997-01-01 The Vampyre Wars1996-01-01 The Thorn Birds:1996-01-01 Little Odessa1994-10-28 Abraham1993-12-12 Candles in the D1993-12-03 Justice1993-10-14 A Far Off Place1993-03-12 Stalin1992-11-21 Miss Rose White1992-04-26 Labyrint1991-11-27 Why Havel?1991-10-01 You Can't Live L1990-09-01 The Freshman1990-07-20 The Rose Garden1989-12-22 The Assisi Under1985-05-03 Man Under Suspic1985-02-01 To Be Hamlet1985-01-19 Marlene1984-10-01 Les ÃŽles1983-03-16 The Phantom of t1983-01-29 The Chosen1981-08-20 The Diary of Ann1980-11-17 The Black Hole1979-12-18 Together?1979-12-14 Avalanche Expres1979-09-27 Players1979-06-08 Tales from the V1979-01-01 Julia1977-10-01 A Bridge Too Far1977-06-15 Cross of Iron1977-01-29 St. Ives1976-02-24 The Day That Sho1975-10-31 The Man in the G1975-01-27 The Odessa File1974-10-17 The Pedestrian1973-09-05 Pope Joan1972-08-16 Paulina 18801972-06-09 First Love1970-10-07 Simon Bolivar1969-09-12 Krakatoa, East o1968-12-26 Heidi1968-11-01 The Castle1968-08-30 Counterpoint1967-12-22 The Deadly Affai1967-01-26 The Desperate On1967-01-01 Die venezianisch1966-12-26 John F. Kennedy:1966-04-10 Return from the 1965-11-16 Der seidene Schu1965-04-10 Topkapi1964-09-02 The Reluctant Sa1962-11-02 The Condemned of1962-10-30 Five Finger Exer1962-04-19 Hamlet, Prince o1961-12-25 Judgment at Nure1961-12-18 The Fifth Column1960-01-29 Eine Dummheit ma1959-06-29 Judgment at Nure1959-04-16 Die sechste Frau1959-01-22 Die Bernauerin1958-12-11 Children of the 1958-10-15 The Young Lions1958-04-02 Der Meisterdieb1958-01-15 The Last Ones Sh1957-06-26 Taxichauffeur BÃ1957-06-25 Ein Herz kehrt h1956-10-25 Die Ehe des Dr. 1956-03-28 The Girl from Fl1956-02-16 Ripening Youth1955-09-14 The Plot to Assa1955-06-21 Children, Mother1955-03-04