Maximilian Schell

Flores negras (2009)

Sphinx - Geheimnisse der Geschichte (8 episodes, 2004-2009)

Tma (2009)

Imperium der Päpste (3 episodes, 2008)

Wiener Opernball (1 episode, 2008)

The Brothers Bloom (2008)

Die Rosenkönigin (2007) (TV)

Der Fürst und das Mädchen (30 episodes, 2003-2007)

Giganten (1 episode, 2007)

Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki (2007)

Brando (2007) (TV)

Die Johannes B. Kerner Show (3 episodes, 2003-2006)

Terra X - Expedition ins Unbekannte (1 episode, 2006)

Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen (2006)

Die Alpenklinik (2006) (TV)

The Shell Seekers (2006) (TV)

Die Liebe eines Priesters (2005) (TV)

Tavis Smiley (1 episode, 2005)

Das Bibelrätsel (2005) TV series

Beckmann (2 episodes, 2003-2005)

The Return of the Dancing Master (2004) (TV)
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell (2004)

Ninth November Night (2004)

Hinter den Fassaden - Die Geheimnisse der Wiener Ringstrasse (2004) (TV)

Menschen bei Maischberger (1 episode, 2004)

Alles Glück dieser Erde (2003) (TV)

Coast to Coast (2003) (TV)

The 75th Annual (2003) (TV)

Leute heute (2 episodes, 2002)

Gero von Boehm begegnet... (1 episode, 2002)

Meine Schwester Maria (2002)

Seitenblicke (1 episode, 2002)

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch (2002) (TV)

Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften (1 episode, 2002)

Festival in Cannes (2001)

The Song of the Lark (2001) (TV)

Wetten, dass..? (1 episode, 2001)

Hamlet in Hollywood (2000)

Fisimatenten (2000)

I Love You, Baby (2000)

Joan of Arc (1999) (TV)

Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel... (1999)

Deep Impact (1998)

Vampires (1998)

Left Luggage (1998)

The Eighteenth Angel (1998)

The 70th Annual (1998) (TV) (uncredited)

Telling Lies in America (1997)

(1 episode, 1997)

Through Roses (1997)

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996) (TV)

The Vampyre Wars (1996)

Claudio Abbado: The Silence That Follows the Music (1996) (TV)

Little Odessa (1994)

Abraham (1994) (TV)

Ein Freund, ein guter Freund - Heinz Rühmann 1902-1994 (1994) (TV)

Lara - Meine Jahre mit Boris Pasternak (1994)(Narrator)

Vision 2000 (1993)

Candles in the Dark (1993) (TV)

Justiz (1993)

A Far Off Place (1993)

Stalin (1992) (TV)

Miss Rose White (1992) (TV)

Young Catherine (1991) (TV)

Labyrinth (1991)

Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung in Moskau (1991) (TV)

Wiseguy (1987) TV series (unknown episodes, 1990)

The Freshman (1990)

The Rosegarden (1989)

Peter the Great (1986) TV mini-series

The Assisi Underground (1985)

Morgen in Alabama (1984)

Étoiles et toiles (1 episode, 1984)

Marlene (1984)

Îles, Les (1983)

The Phantom of the Opera (1983) (TV)

Bernstein/Beethoven (1982) TV mini-series

The Chosen (1981)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1980) (TV)

The Black Hole (1979)

Amo non amo (1979)

Avalanche Express (1979)

Players (1979)

The 50th Annual (1978) (TV)

V.I.P.-Schaukel (1 episode, 1978)

Julia (1977)

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Cross of Iron (1977)

St. Ives (1976)

Sarajevski atentat (1975)

Der Richter und sein Henker (1975) (voice) (uncredited)

The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

The Odessa File (1974)

The Rehearsal (1974)

Der Fußgänger (1973)

Paulina 1880 (1972)

Pope Joan (1972)

Erste Liebe (1970)

(1 episode, 1970)

Simón Bolívar (1969)

Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)

Heidi (1968) (TV)

The Desperate Ones (1968)

Das Schloß (1968)

Flash 14 (1968)

The Beautiful Blue and Red Danube (1967) (TV)(Narrator)

Counterpoint (1967)

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1 episode, 1967)

The Deadly Affair (1966)

Return from the Ashes (1965)

Der Seidene Schuh (4 episodes, 1965)

Topkapi (1964)

The 35th Annual (1963) (TV)

Toast of the Town (1 episode, 1962)

The 34th Annual (1962) (TV)

Here's Hollywood (2 episodes, 1961-1962)

The Reluctant Saint (1962)

Sequestrati di Altona, I (1962)

Five Finger Exercise (1962)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark (1961) (TV)

The Three Musketeers (1960) (TV)

Alcoa Theatre (1 episode, 1960)

Sunday Showcase (1 episode, 1960)

The Fifth Column (1960) (TV)

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1 episode, 1959)

Playhouse 90 (2 episodes, 1959)

Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste (1959) (TV)

Die Bernauerin (1958) (TV)

Kinder der Berge (1958)

The Young Lions (1958)

Die Letzten werden die Ersten sein (1957)

Taxichauffeur Bänz (1957)

Ein Herz kehrt heim (1956)

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956)

Ein Mädchen aus Flandern (1956)

Reifende Jugend (1955)

Der 20. Juli (1955)

Kinder, Mütter und ein General (1955)

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Along with Marcello Mastroianni, Maurice Chevalier, and Emil Jannings, Maximilian Schell is one of the most renowned European film actors. The son of actress Margarethe Noe von Nordberg and writer/poet Hermann Ferdinand Schell, Maximilian was born in Vienna in 1930. He was raised during World War II in neutral Zurich, Switzerland, and was a committed anti-Nazi as a teenager. His sister, Maria Schell, was already an international movie star when Schell made his Hollywood film debut in the war drama The Young Lions (1958), opposite Marlon Brando. But he is perhaps best known for his role as defense attorney Hans Rolfe in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), a part he had first played in a live TV broadcast two years earlier. Schell won an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Rolfe, beating his costar Spencer Tracy.

He has a wide range of credits to his name and has appeared in such movies as The Odessa File (1974), Cross of Iron (1977), Julia (1977), Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977), The Chosen (1981), and in the science-fiction thriller Deep Impact (1998). Schell is also an accomplished director; his film Der Fussganger (1973) (The Pedestrian) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film, and his documentary portrait of actress Marlene Dietrich, Marlene (1984), was nominated for the Feature Documentary Oscar. He also directed a documentary film about his sister, Meine Schwester Maria (2002) (My Sister Maria), to much critical acclaim. Since the 1990s he has appeared in many German-language made-for-TV films, such as Alles Gluck dieser Erde (2003) (All the Luck in the World). More recently he appeared onstage in London in Robert Altman's production of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues (2006).