Oscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell dies
He was number 67 on the list.
Austrian actor Maximilian Schell, who won an Oscar for his role in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg, has passed away at the age of 83.
He died overnight at a clinic in the Austrian city of Innsbruck after "a sudden and serious illness", his agent said.
Schell had been treated for pneumonia earlier this week.
He was one of the most famous German-speaking actors to have gained international fame.
The actor's wife was reportedly at his bedside when he died.
Schell had been in filming in Austria when he fell ill last Saturday.
He was taken to hospital and treated for a lung infection, but discharged on Tuesday.
Colourful career
Born in the Austrian capital, Vienna, in 1930, Schell was one of four children of a Swiss author and an Austrian actress.
His parents emigrated to Switzerland eight years later when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany.
A stage actor, Schell began his Hollywood career in the late 1950s when he starred alongside Marlon Brando in the World War Two film, The Young Lions.
In 1961, he was awarded an Oscar for best actor for his role as the defense lawyer of a Nazi war criminal.
The cast also included Marlene Dietrich, Burt Lancaster and Spencer Tracy.
Over the next three decades, Schell appeared in numerous big US productions.
His diverse characters ranged from a museum treasure thief in Topkapi (1964), to a mad scientist in Disney sci-fi film The Black Hole (1979), to a Russian KGB colonel in Candles in the Dark (1998).
Schell featured in a large number of international TV productions. His part as communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the US series Stalin earned him a Golden Globe in the early 1990s.
Schell also directed several movies, including his 1984 Oscar-nominated documentary Marlene, about Marlene Dietrich.
Schell's late sister Maria was also a renowned actress.
His Filmography:
Filmography
Title Year Role Notes
Kinder, Mütter und ein General 1955 Deserteur
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler 1955 Member of the
Kreisau Circle
Ripening Youth 1955 Jürgen Sengebusch
The Girl from Flanders 1956
Alexander Haller
The Marriage of Doctor Danwitz 1956 Dr.
Oswald Hauser
A Heart Returns Home 1956
Wolfgang Thomas
The Last Ones Shall Be First 1957 Lorenz
Darrandt
The Young Lions 1958
Captain Hardenberg
Ein wunderbarer Sommer 1958
Josef Ospel
Hamlet 1961 Hamlet Television
film. Used in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
Hans Rolfe Academy Award for Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated – Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
Five Finger Exercise 1962
Walter
The Condemned of Altona 1962
Franz von Gerlach
The Reluctant Saint 1962
Giuseppe
Topkapı 1964
Walter Harper
Return from the Ashes 1965
Stanislaus Pilgrin
The Doctor and the Devil 1965
The Deadly Affair 1966
Dieter Frey
The Desperate Ones 1967
Marek
Counterpoint 1967 General Schiller
The Castle 1968
'K.'
Heidi 1968 Richard Sessemann Television film
Krakatoa, East of Java 1968
Captain Hanson
Simón Bolívar 1969 Simón Bolívar
Erste Liebe 1970
Father San Sebastián International Film Festival Silver Seashell
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[41]
Paulina 1880 [fr] 1972
Michele Cantarini
Pope Joan 1972
Adrian
The Pedestrian 1973 Andreas Giese Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Odessa File 1974
Eduard Roschmann
The Rehearsal 1974
The Man in the Glass Booth 1975
Arthur Goldman Nominated – Academy Award for
Best Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion
Picture Drama
Der Richter und sein Henker 1975
Robert Schmied on Audiotape Voice, Uncredited role
San Sebastián International Film Festival Silver Seashell
The Day That Shook the World 1975 Djuro Sarac
St. Ives 1976 Dr. John Constable
Cross of Iron 1977
Hauptmann von Stransky
A Bridge Too Far 1977
SS-Obergruppenführer and General of
the Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
Julia 1977 Johann New
York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best
Supporting Actor
Players 1979 Marco
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald 1979 Theatre
Visitor Uncredited
Avalanche Express 1979
Col. Nikolai Bunin
Together? 1979
Giovanni
The Black Hole 1979 Dr. Hans Reinhardt
The Diary of Anne Frank 1980
Otto Frank Television film
Arch of Triumph 1980
The Chosen 1981 Professor David Malter
The Phantom of the Opera [de] 1983 Sándor Korvin/The
Phantom of the Opera Television
film
Les Îles [fr] 1983
Fabrice
Man Under Suspicion 1984
Lawyer Landau
The Assisi Underground 1985
Col. Müller Television film 175 minutes
Peter the Great 1986
Peter the Great TV miniseries
Laughter in the Dark 1986
An American Place 1988
Alfred Steiglitz
The Rose Garden 1989
Aaron
The Freshman 1990 Larry London
Young Catherine
Frederick the Great
Miss Rose White 1992
Mordecai Weiss Television film
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor
in a Miniseries or a Movie
Stalin 1992 Vladimir Lenin Television film
CableACE Award for Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series,
Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting
Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
A Far Off Place 1993 Colonel Mopani Theron
Justice 1993 Isaak Kohler
Candles in the Dark 1993
Colonel Arkush Television film
Also director
Abraham 1994
Pharaoh Television film
Little Odessa 1994
Arkady Shapira
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years 1996 Cardinal
Vittorio TV miniseries
The Vampyre Wars 1996
Rodan
Through Roses 1997 Carl Stern
Telling Lies in America 1997
Dr. Istvan Jonas
The Eighteenth Angel 1998
Father Simeon
Left Luggage 1998
Mr. Silberschmidt
Vampires 1998
Cardinal Alba
Deep Impact 1998 Jason Lerner
Joan of Arc 1999
Brother Jean le Maistre TV miniseries
Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel... 1999 Hochberg
I Love You, Baby 2000
Walter Ekland
Fisimatenten 2001 Poser
Festival in Cannes 2001
Viktor Kovner
Coast to Coast 2003 Casimir Television
film
Der Fürst und das Mädchen 2003–2007
Fürst Friedrich von Thorwald TV series
The House of Sleeping Beauties 2006 Kogi
The Shell Seekers 2006
Lawrence Sterne TV miniseries
The Brothers Bloom 2008
Diamond Dog
Flores negras 2009 Jacob Krinsten
Les brigands 2015
Mr. Escher (final film role; filmed in 2013)
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