
Known for
Acting
Born
December 8, 1930
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria
Died
February 1, 2014 (aged 83)
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 an...
2015
as Mr. Escher
2011
as Jedermann (archive footage)
2010
2010
2010
2009
as Jacob Krinsten
2009
2008
as Diamond Dog
2008
2008
2007
as Lawrence Sterne
2007
as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
2007
2007
2006
2006
as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
2006
2005
as Father Christoph
2005
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2004
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2004
as Fernando Hereira
2004
as Casimir
2003
as Xaver Schönborn