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General	Awards and nominations: 1978 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Julia 1976 - Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Man in the Glass Booth 1961 - Won Best Actor in a Leading Role - Judgment at Nuremberg Akira Kurosawa Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Entertainment Industry 1999 CableACE Award Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries "Stalin" 1993 Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie "Stalin" 1992 Golden Globe Award Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film "The Pedestrian" 1973 Stage Appearances: Leonce, Berlin Theatre am Kurfurstendamn, Berlin, Germany, 1957 Philotas, Berlin Theatre am Kurfurstendamn, 1957 Paul, Interlock, American National Theatre and Academy, New York City, 1958 Der Turn, Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria, 1959 Sappho, Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany), 1959 Hamlet, 1961 A Patriot for Me, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1965, then Bremen,West Germany (now Germany), 1966 (p> Herostrat, Bochum, West Germany (now Germany), 1966 The Venetian Twins, Josefstadt, Vienna, Austria, 1966 Title role, Hamlet, Munich, West Germany (now Germany), 1968 Alfred Redl, A Patriot for Me, Imperial Theatre, New York City, 1969 Old Times, Vienna, Austria, 1973 Everyman, Salzburg Festival, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 Der seidene Schuh, 1982 Poor Murderer, Berlin, Germany, 1982 Ernst Janning, Judgment at Nuremberg, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 2001 Appeared in productions of Don Carlos, Mannerhouse, and The Prince of Homburg.
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Movies	CREDITS Film Appearances: Deserter, Kinder, Muetter und ein General (also known as Children, Mother, and the General), 1955 Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises, Der 20. Juli (also known as ThePlot to Assassinate Hitler), 1955 Reifende Jugend (also known as Ripening Youth), 1955 Dr. Hauser, Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (also known as Marriage of Dr. Danwitz), 1956 Wolfgang Thomas, Ein Herz kehrt heim, 1956 Herzog Albrecht von Bayern, Die Bernauerin, 1958 The Fifth Column, 1959 Lieutenant Alexander "Alex" Haller, Ein Maedchen aus Flandern (also known as The Girl from Flanders), 1956, released in United States, 1963 Lorenz Darrandt, Die Letzten werden die Ersten sein (also known asThe Last Ones Shall Be First), 1957 Toni Schellenberg, Taxichauffeur Baenz (also known as Taxi Driver Baenz), 1957 Der Meisterdieb, 1957 Captain Hardenberg, The Young Lions, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958 Josef Ospel, Kinder der Berge (also known as Ein Wunderbarer Sommer), 1958 Die Sechste Frau, 1958 Eine Dummheit macht Auch der Gescheiteste, 1959 Hans Rolfe, Judgment at Nuremberg, United Artists, 1961 Walter, Five Finger Exercise, Columbia, 1961 Giuseppe Desa, The Reluctant Saint (also known as Joseph Desa and Cronache di un convento), Columbia, 1962 Franz, I sequestrati di Altona (also known as The Condemned ofAltona and Les sequestres d'Altona), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963 Walter Harper, Topkapi, United Artists, 1964 Letters of Mozart, 1964 Stanislaus Pilgrin, Return from the Ashes, United Artists, 1965 Dieter Frey, The Deadly Affair, Columbia, 1967 Herr Sesseman, Heidi, 1968 General Schiller, Counterpoint, Universal, 1968 Himself, Flash 14 (short documentary film), Television Espanola, 1968 Captain Chris Hanson, Krakatoa, East of Java (also known as Volcano), Cinerama, 1969 "K," Das Schloss (also known as The Castle), Continental, 1969 Marek, The Desperate Ones (also known as Beyond the Mountains and Mas alla de las montanas), Commonwealth United, 1969 L'assoluto naturale, 1969 Simon Bolivar (also known as La epopeya de Bolivar), 1969 Father, Erste Liebe (also known as First Love and FirstLove--Die Geschichte einer Liebe), UMC Pictures, 1970 Brother Adrian, Pope Joan (also known as The Devil's Imposter), Columbia, 1972 Count Michel Cantarini, Paulina 1880, 1972 Trotta (also known as Trotta--Die Kapuzinergruft), 1972 Andreas Giese, Der Fussgaenger (also known as The Pedestrian), Cinerama, 1973 The Rehearsal (also known as I Dokimi), 1974 Arthur Goldman, The Man in the Glass Booth, American Film Theatre,1975 Djuro Sarac (some sources cite Shastar), Sarajevski atentat (alsoknown as Assassination in Sarajevo, The Day That Shook the World, Atentat u Sarajevu, Der Tag, der die Welt veraenderte, and Sarajevsky atentat), 1975 Eduard Roschmann, The Odessa File (also known as Der Fall Odessa and Die Akte Odessa), Columbia, 1975 Dr. John Constable, St. Ives, Warner Bros., 1976 Hauptmann Stransky, Cross of Iron (also known as Steiner-- Das Eiserne Kreuz), Avco-Embassy, 1977 Johann, Julia, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977 Lieutenant general Wilhelm Bittrich, A Bridge Too Far, United Artists, 1977 Nikolai Bunin, Avalanche Express, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978 Gesprache mit Jedermann, 1978 Dr. Hans Reinhardt, The Black Hole, Buena Vista, 1979 Giovanni, Amo non amo (also known as I Love You, I Love You Not and Together?), New Line Cinema, 1979 Marco, Players, Paramount, 1979 Otto Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, NBC, 1980 Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (also known as Tales from the Vienna Woods), 1979, subtitled version released in the United States by Cinema 5 Distributing Fabrice, Les iles (also known as The Islands), 1982 Professor David Malter, The Chosen, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982 The Great Hamlets, 1983 David Landau, Morgen in Alabama (also known as Man under Suspicion and Tomorrow in Alabama), Futura Film, c. 1983, subtitled version released in the United States by International Spectrafilm, c. 1984 Himself, Marlene (documentary; also known as Marlene Dietrich--Portraet eines Mythos), Futura Film, 1984, subtitled version, Alive Films, 1986 Colonel Mueller, The Assisi Underground, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985 Peter, Peter the Great, 1986 Aaron Reichenbacher, The Rose Garden (also known as Der Rosengarten), Cannon, 1989 Larry London, The Freshman, TriStar, 1990 Himself, Labyrinth, 1991 Mordecai Weiss, "Miss Rose White," Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, 1992 Colonel Arkush, Candles in the Dark, The Family Channel, 1993 Colonel Mopani Theron, A Far Off Place, Buena Vista, 1993 Isaak Kohler, Justiz (also known as Justice), 1993 Arkady Shapira, Little Odessa, Fine Line Features, 1995 Rodan, The Vampyre Wars, 1996 Claudio Abbado: The Silence That Follows the Music, 1996 Carl Stern, Zwischen Rosen, 1997 Dr. Istvan Jonas, Telling Lies in America, Banner Entertainment, 1997 Father Simeon, The Eighteenth Angel, Rysher Entertainment, 1997 Mr. Silberschmidt, Left Luggage (also known as 2 koffers vol), 1997, Castle Hill Productions, 2000 Cardinal Alba, Vampires (also known as John Carpenter's "Vampires" and Vampire$), Sony Pictures Releasing, 1998 Jason Lerner, Deep Impact, Paramount, 1998 Hochberg, Wer liebt, dem wachsen Fluegel ... (also known as Onthe Wings of Love), Concorde Filmverleih, 1999 Herr Wunsch, The Song of the Lark (1999) Himself, Mein liebster Feind-Klaus Kinski (documentary; also knownas My Best Fiend, Mein liebster Feind, and 25. tunti: KlausKinski), 1999, subtitled version released in the United States by New Yorker Films Himself, Hamlet in Hollywood (documentary), 2000 Poser, Fisimatenten (also known as Just Messing About), Next Film/Saarlaendischer Rundfunk, 2000 Walter Ekland, I Love You Baby, Warner Bros., 2000 Viktor Kovner, Festival in Cannes, Paramount Classics, 2001 Casimir Michaelstadt, Coast to Coast 2003 Himself, Meine Schwester Maria (documentary; also known as My Sister Maria), 2002, subtitled version, Rainbow Releasing/Kirchmedia Entertainment, 2004 Himself, Ninth November Night (short documentary film), Lohneranger, 2004 (In archive footage) Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (documentary), Anker Productions, 2004 Pater Christoph, Die Liebe eines Priesters, ARD (Germany), 2005 Diamond Dog, The Brothers Bloom, 2008 Kogi, House of the Sleeping Beauties, 2008
Television	D'Artagnan, The Three Musketeers, 1960 Title role, Hamlet (also known as Hamlet, Prinz von Daenemark), Germany, 1960, then United States, 1962 Don Rodrigo, Der Seidene Schuh, 1965 Narrator, The Beautiful Blue and Red Danube (documentary), ABC, 1967 Commentator, Bernstein/Beethoven, PBS, 1981 Frederick the Great, Young Catherine, TNT, 1991 Amado Guzman, Wiseguy, CBS, 1990 Vladimir Lenin, Stalin (also known as Sztalin), HBO, 1992 Pharaoh, Abraham (also known as The Bible: Abraham, DieBibel--Abraham, and La Bible: Abraham), TNT, 1994 Cardinal Vittorio, The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, CBS, 1996 Narrator, Sex and the Silver Screen, Showtime, 1996 Brother John Le'Maitre, Joan of Arc (also known as Jeanne d'Arc), CBS, 1999 Fuerst Thorwald, Der Fuerst und das Maedchen, [Germany], beginning 2003
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Maximilian Schell may not be a household name, but he is internationally respected, particularly in Europe, as an award-winning actor/director of stage and screen.

Schell was born Dec 08, 1930 in Vienna, Austria , the son of Margarethe (née Noe von Nordberg), an actress, and Hermann Ferdinand Schell, a poet, writer, and owner of a pharmacy. Schell's late elder sister, Maria Schell, was also an actress; as are their two other siblings, Carl and Immy (Immaculata) Schell. The Schell family moved to Zurich, Switzerland in 1938, where young Maximilian later served in the Swiss Army, achieving the rank of corporal. He began acting at the Basel Theater.

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Schell made his Hollywood debut in 1958 in the World War II film The Young Lions. In 1959, he appeared as Hans Rolfe, the defense attorney, in a live Playhouse 90 television production of Judgment at Nuremberg. In 1961, he reprised the role, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1974's The Pedestrian, for which Schell wrote, produced, directed, and starred, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

Schell produced and starred in the 1968 adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Castle" before graduating to full-blown auteur as director of "First Love" (1970), which he co-adapted from a story by Turgenev (as well as produced). The original, often moving story of young lovers, starring Dominique Sanda and John Moulder-Brown (and the director as Sanda's father), earned an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film, as did his next outing, "The Pedestrian" (1973). This time, the writer-producer-director revisited familiar terrain, telling the tale of a leading German industrialist exposed by a muckraking local newspaper as having ordered the massacre of a Greek village during the war, to which he contributed a fine performance as the accusatory son. Schell co-wrote "The End of the Game" (1976) with Friedrich Durrenmatt (from Durrenmatt's novel), helming the complex thriller about a dying police chief (played by director Martin Ritt) who has been trying for three decades to nail an omnipotent criminal (Robert Shaw). Following his well-received "Tales from the Vienna Woods/Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald" (1979), he concluded his auteurship with the fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, "Marlene" (1984), centered on an "interview" with Marlene Dietrich, in which the legendary star (who refused to appear on camera) continued to stage-manage her career with a combination of charm, guile and deliberate obfuscation.

Schell refused to be typecast. Although he was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films as The Man in the Glass Booth, A Bridge Too Far, Cross of Iron, The Odessa File, Julia, and Judgement at Nuremberg, he has also appeared in Topkapi, Krakatoa, East of Java, The Black Hole, The Freshman, Stalin, Deep Impact, Candles in the Dark, and Erste Liebe. Since the 1990s, Schell has appeared in many German language made-for-TV films, such as the 2003 film Alles Glück dieser Erde (All the Luck in the World) opposite Uschi Glas and in the mini-series The Return of the Dancing Master (2004), which was based on Henning Mankell's novel.

Those who are not familiar with his feature work may know him from his impressive body of TV credits in the 80s and 90s, beginning with his portrayal of Otto Frank in the NBC remake of "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1980). Schell painted a dandy scenery-chewing portrait of "The Phantom of the Opera" (CBS, 1983), was magnificent as "Peter the Great" in the 1986 Emmy-winning NBC miniseries and played Frederick the Great to Redgrave's Empress Elizabeth in "Young Catherine" (TNT, 1991). He bore an uncanny resemblance to Lenin in the HBO miniseries "Stalin" and garnered an Emmy nomination as Mordecai in the NBC "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation of "Miss Rose White" (both 1992). Some might remember him for his portrayal of Amado Guzman during the last season of "Wiseguy" (CBS, 1990), his only foray in series television, and he also appeared as Pharaoh in the TNT movie "Abraham" (1994) and as Cardinal Vittorio in the CBS miniseries "The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years" (1996). After a decade's absence from the director's chair, Schell helmed the Family Channel's "Candles in the Wind" (1993) but asked to have his name removed from the credits. This man of conscience continues to lend his dynamic presence to both the large and small screens, showing no signs of slowing up.

In addition to his international film career, Schell has been active as director, writer and actor in European theatre, making his stage debut in 1952, three years before his first cinematic role. In 1972 he starred as 'Deeley' in Peter Hall's German language premiére of Harold Pinter's Old Times at the Burgtheater in Vienna, and in 2006 he appeared in Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues directed by Robert Altman in London at the Old Vic.

Schell earned an Oscar in 1961 for his intriguing performance as a defense attorney in Judgment at Nuremberg, and would subsequently be nominated for Oscars for his work in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) and Julia (1977). In 1968, he produced Das Schloss (The Castle) and made his feature film directorial/screenwriting debut with Erste Liebe (First Love) in 1970. The latter film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film, as did his 1973 effort Der Fussgänger. The latter also won him a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. As a director and producer, Schell distinguished himself on the international stage with productions such as the remarkable Tales From the Vienna Woods and the modern opera Coronet. In addition to film and stage work, he has occasionally worked on television, winning a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Lenin in the HBO miniseries Stalin (1992) and additional acclaim for his work in Peter the Great (1986) and Joan of Arc (1999).

Schell has also served as a writer, producer and director for a variety of films, including the documentary film Marlene (1984) with the participation of Marlene Dietrich that won several awards. In 2002, he released My Sister Maria, a documentary about the career of and his relationship with Maria Schell.

Among fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Schell is known for starring in Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark, a German language version of Hamlet screened on the show.

Since the late '80s, Schell's screen appearances became sporadic, and he rarely branched out from acting. Notable films from the '90s included a rare comic role opposite Marlon Brando in The Freshman (1990), a dramatic turn as a stern patriarch in screenwriter Joe Eszterhas' autobiographical Telling Lies in America (1997), Tea Leoni's father in Deep Impact (1998), and a cardinal in John Carpenter's Vampires (1998). When not busying himself on stage, screen, and television, he has distinguished himself as a concert pianist and conductor. He has performed with Claudio Abado, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, and Leonard Bernstein.

Personal life:

In 2000, he collapsed and was diagnosed with pancreatitis related to his diabetes. At the time, he was starring on Broadway in the premiere of the stage version of Judgment at Nuremberg, changing roles from the defense lawyer to the lead judge on trial for crimes against humanity.

In the mid 1960s, Schell reportedly was engaged to marry the African American fashion model Donyale Luna, though the wedding never happened. He did marry famous Russian actress Natalya Andreychenko, whom he met on the set of Peter the Great. They have one daughter, Nastassja Schell, born in 1989. He lives in Austria with wife Elisabeth.

Schell is the godfather of Angelina Jolie, daughter of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.

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