Personal Info
Maximilian Schell
Acting
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Les brigands
as Mr. Escher
Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)
Maximilian Schell - Ein sehnsüchtiger Rebell
as Self
Black Flowers
as Jacob Krinsten
Darkness
The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond Dog
The Shell Seekers
as Lawrence Sterne
Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
as Himself
House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Kogi
TV Shows
Im Gespräch mit Teddy Podgorski
as Self · 1 ep.
Markus Lanz
as Self · 1 ep.
Imperium der Päpste
as Sprecher · 3 ep.
Pilawas großes Geschichts-Quiz
as Self · 1 ep.
Semperopernball
as Self · 1 ep.
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
as Self · 1 ep.
Kulturplatz
as Self · 1 ep.
Servus, Hansi Hinterseer
as Self · 1 ep.
Menschen bei Maischberger
as Self · 1 ep.
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald · 40 ep.