Person
Maximilian Schell
Born 8 December 1930 Died 1 February 2014, aged 83 Vienna, Austria TMDB ↗
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.
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21age in their first credit on record (1951)
64years on screen and counting
5credits in 1979, their busiest year
110dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 84 Les brigands
2015as Mr. Escher
Age: 80 Jedermann Remixed
2011as Jedermann (archive footage)
Age: 78 Black Flowers
2009as Jacob Krinsten
Age: 78 Darkness
2009
Age: 77 The Brothers Bloom
2008as Diamond Dog
Age: 76 The Shell Seekers
2007as Lawrence Sterne
Age: 76 Die Rosenkönigin
2007as Karl Friedrich Weidemann
Age: 75 House of the Sleeping Beauties
2006as Kogi
Age: 75 Die Alpenklinik
2006as Dr. Alexander Ohlendorf
Age: 74 Die Liebe eines Priesters
2005as Father Christoph
Age: 73 The Return of the Dancing Master
2004as Fernando Hereira
Age: 73 Coast to Coast
2004as Casimir
Age: 73 Alles Glück dieser Erde
2003as Xaver Schönborn
Age: 71 Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002as Karl Steingraf
Age: 70 Festival in Cannes
2001as Viktor Kovner
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Age: 69 I Love You, Baby
2000as Walter Ekland
Age: 69 Just Messing About
2000as Poser
Age: 68 On the Wings of Love
1999as Hochberg
Age: 67 Vampires
1998as Cardinal Alba
Age: 67 Deep Impact
1998as Jason Lerner
Age: 67 Left Luggage
1998as Mr. Silberschmidt
Age: 66 Telling Lies in America
1997as Dr. Istvan Jonas
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Age: 66 Zwischen Rosen
1997as Carl Stern
Age: 66 The Eighteenth Angel
1997as Father Simeon
Age: 65 The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996as Cardinal Vittorio
Age: 65 The Vampyre Wars
1996as Rodan
Age: 63 Little Odessa
1994as Arkady Shapira
Age: 63 Abraham
1993as Pharao
Age: 62 Candles in the Dark
1993as Colonel Arkush
Age: 62 Justice
1993as Isaak Kohler
Age: 62 A Far Off Place
1993as Col. Mopani Theron
Age: 61 Stalin
1992as Vladimir Lenin
Age: 61 Miss Rose White
1992as Mordecai Weiss
Age: 60 Labyrinth
1991as The Filmmaker
Age: 60 Why Havel?
1991
Age: 59 You Can't Live Like That
1990as German Commentator
Age: 59 The Freshman
1990as Larry London
Age: 59 The Rose Garden
1989as Aaron
Age: 54 The Assisi Underground
1985as Col. Müller
Age: 53 Man Under Suspicion
1984as Lawyer Landau
Age: 52 Les Îles
1983as Fabrice
Age: 52 The Phantom of the Opera
1983as Sandor Korvin/Phantom
Age: 50 The Chosen
1981as Professor David Malter
Age: 49 The Diary of Anne Frank
1980as Otto Frank
Age: 49 The Black Hole
1979as Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Age: 49 Together?
1979as Giovanni
Age: 48 Avalanche Express
1979as Colonel Nikolai Bunin
Age: 48 Players
1979as Marco
Age: 48 Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979as Theatre Visitor
Age: 47 End of the Game
1978as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 46 Julia
1977as Johann
Age: 46 A Bridge Too Far
1977as General der Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Age: 46 Cross of Iron
1977as Hauptmann Stransky
Age: 45 St. Ives
1976as Dr. John Constable
Age: 44 The Day That Shook the World
1975as Đuro Šarac
Age: 44 The Man in the Glass Booth
1975as Arthur Goldman
Age: 43 The Odessa File
1974as Eduard Roschmann
Age: 42 The Pedestrian
1973as Andreas Giese
Age: 41 Pope Joan
1972as Adrian
Age: 41 Paulina 1880
1972as Count Michele Cantarini
Age: 39 First Love
1970as Vater
Age: 38 Simón Bolívar
1969as Simón Bolívar
Age: 38 Krakatoa, East of Java
1969as Captain Chris Hanson
Age: 37 Heidi
1968as Richard Sessemann
Age: 37 The Castle
1968as K
Age: 37 Counterpoint
1967as Gen. Schiller
Age: 36 The Desperate Ones
1967as Marek
Age: 36 The Deadly Affair
1967as Dieter Frey
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Age: 36 Die venezianischen Zwillinge
1966as Zanetto und Tonio
Age: 35 John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
1966as German Narrator
Age: 34 Return from the Ashes
1965as Stanislaw Pilgrin
Age: 34 Der seidene Schuh
1965as Don Rodrigo
Age: 33 Topkapi
1964as Walter Harper
Age: 31 The Reluctant Saint
1962as Giuseppe
Age: 31 The Condemned of Altona
1962as Franz von Gerlach
Age: 31 Five Finger Exercise
1962as Walter
Age: 31 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961as Hamlet
Age: 31 Judgment at Nuremberg
1961as Hans Rolfe
Age: 29 The Fifth Column
1960No poster
Age: 28 Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste
1959as Jegor Dmitritsch Glumow
Age: 28 Judgment at Nuremberg
1959as Otto Rolfe
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Age: 28 Die sechste Frau
1959as Henry Howard
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Age: 28 Die Bernauerin
1958as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern
Age: 27 Children of the Mountains
1958as Josef Ospel
Age: 27 The Young Lions
1958as Capt. Hardenberg
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Age: 27 Der Meisterdieb
1958
Age: 26 The Last Ones Shall Be First
1957as Lorenz Darrandt
Age: 26 Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957as Toni Schellenberg
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Age: 25 Ein Herz kehrt heim
1956as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn
Age: 25 Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956as Dr. Oswald Hauser
Age: 25 The Girl from Flanders
1956as Alexander Haller
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Age: 24 Ripening Youth
1955as Jürgen Sengebusch
Age: 24 The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955as Mitglied des Kreisauer Kreises
Age: 24 Children, Mother, and the General
1955as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht
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TV credits
Age: 77 Imperium der Päpste
2008as Sprecher
Age: 72 Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003 Age: 72 Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald
Age: 71 Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002as Franz Steininger
Age: 68 Joan of Arc
1999as Brother Jean le Maistre
Age: 63 Abraham
1994as Pharaoh
Age: 63 Abraham
1994as Pharao
Age: 60 Young Catherine
1991as Frederick the Great
Age: 56 Wiseguy
1987as Amado Guzman
Age: 55 Peter the Great
1986as Peter the Great
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Age: 37 The Three Musketeers
1968
Age: 34 Der seidene Schuh
1965as Don Rodrigo
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Age: 32 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Age: 27 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Age: 25 Playhouse 90
1956as Otto Rolfe
Age: 21 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Rose's Father