Maximilian Schell Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian and Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg, his second acting role in Hollywood. His parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by acting and literature. While he was a child, his family fled Vienna in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled in Zurich, Switzerland. After World War II ended, Schell took up acting or directing full-time. He appeared in numerous German films, often anti-war, before moving on to Hollywood.Schell was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films, as he could speak both English and German. Among those were two films for which he received Oscar nominations: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975; best actor), where he played a character with two identities, and Julia (1977; best supporting actor), where he helps the underground in Nazi Germany.His range of acting went beyond German characters, however, and during his career, he also played personalities as diverse as Venezuelan leader Simón Bolívar, Russian emperor Peter the Great, and scientist Albert Einstein. For his role as Vladimir Lenin in the television film, Stalin (1992), he won the Golden Globe Award. On stage, Schell acted in a number of plays, and his was considered "one of the greatest Hamlets ever."In Schell's private life, he was an accomplished pianist and conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His elder sister, Maria Schell, was also a noted Hollywood actress, about whom he produced the documentary, My Sister Maria, in 2002.
Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television, German Film Award - Honorary Award, Bambi - Lifetime Achievement, German Film Award for Best Over...
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a...
Movies
Judgment at Nuremberg, The Young Lions, The Man in the Glass Booth, Cross of Iron, A Bridge Too Far, Deep Impact, The Black Hole, The Odessa File, Topkapi, Julia, The Freshman, My Sister Maria, The Pedestrian, Little Odessa, The Condemned of Altona, The Brothers Bloom, The Deadly Affair, Return from...
TV Shows
Coast to Coast, Joan of Arc, The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, Abraham, Young Catherine, Wiseguy, Peter the Great, Heidi, Der Fürst und das Mädchen, The Three Musketeers
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.
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When asked by journalists in Vienna (his family's home) what I enjoy most about living and working in North America, I answered, "Freedom." The reporters told me, "We're sorry, Mr. Schell; but it needs to be something else, because we can't print that." So I rest my case.
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[on directing movies] It's more fulfilling than acting, but it's also more wounding to get bad reviews as a director than an actor.
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[on Marlene Dietrich] You won't believe it, but the lady is extremely funny.
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Fact
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He directed 2 films that were Oscar nominated for Foreign Language Film: First Love (1970) and The Pedestrian (1973).
At the Academy Awards presentation for 1961 (1962), Joan Crawford presented Schell with his "Best Actor" Oscar; the following year, Schell, as presenter of the "Best Actress" award, presented the Oscar to Joan Crawford, who was accepting for absent winner Anne Bancroft.
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He dubbed himself in the English version of Hamlet (1960).
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Was among the actors in the running for Dr. Hans Fallada in the science fiction horror film Lifeforce (1985). Frank Finlay was cast instead.
His interest in acting began at early age. When age 11, he appeared in a professional production of "William Tell" and the same year wrote a play which was produced by his school.
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Received the "Actor of the Millennium" award at The Baltic Pearl Film Festival in Latvia. He collapsed at the festival and has been diagnosed with acute pancreatitis which is related to his diabetes. [August 2000]
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In 1990, he refused to receive the Honorary German Film Award because he felt too young to be awarded with an award for lifetime achievement.
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Had appeared in the Old Vic's early 2006 production of the Arthur Miller play "Resurrection Blues", which was directed by Robert Altman in his London theatrical debut, The play was widely panned by critics, partly due to the divergent acting styles of the eclectic cast assembled by Altman, which included the urbane Englishman James Fox playing the intellectual cousin of Schell's Germanic dictator.
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In later life, he began directing operatic productions. His first foray in the musical medium was a Swiss production of Verdi's "La Traviata". This passion was triggered when he was performing in the play "Jedermann" (or "Everyman") in Salzburg, Austria from 1978-1982, and he came into contact with several musical conductors including Leonard Bernstein, James Levine and Claudio Abbado.
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A part-time director, his compelling documentary Marlene (1984) was nominated for an Oscar in 1985 and his last film Meine Schwester Maria (2002) chronicled the life, career and eventual diminished capacity of his noted actress sister Maria Schell.
He was the first actor to win an Oscar (for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)) for a role he originally performed on television (in a 1959 episode of Playhouse 90 (1956)). The only other actor to accomplish that feat was Cliff Robertson, who won an Oscar for Charly (1968) after first playing the role in "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon" on The United States Steel Hour (1953).
I had never heard of “Max” Schell..but my Mother had and loved his films and his fine details and romantic/caring/ Christian ways..secretive yet outgoing..strong and refined..comparable to Dali!!
Well, Mr. Schell..my Mother named her little Schnauzer after you..and he is sooo dignified and adorable..may he
introduce your works to others as he meets them..and may you please give my Mother a hug for me in Heaven now…
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I had never heard of “Max” Schell..but my Mother had and loved his films and his fine details and romantic/caring/ Christian ways..secretive yet outgoing..strong and refined..comparable to Dali!!
Well, Mr. Schell..my Mother named her little Schnauzer after you..and he is sooo dignified and adorable..may he
introduce your works to others as he meets them..and may you please give my Mother a hug for me in Heaven now…
so…please educate me on this amazing man…My Mother was picky about who she chose to get to know..and was loyal to all she befriended…tell me alllll???