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Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss [1] actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg, his second acting role in Hollywood. Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by performance and literature.
Maximilian Schell. Actor: Judgment at Nuremberg. Maximilian Schell was the most successful German-speaking actor in English-language films since Emil Jannings, the winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award. Like Jannings, Schell won the Oscar, but unlike him, he was a dedicated anti-Nazi.
- Actor, Director, Writer
- December 8, 1930
- 2 min
- February 1, 2014
Actor: Judgment at Nuremberg. Maximilian Schell was the most successful German-speaking actor in English-language films since Emil Jannings, the winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award.
- Actor, Director, Writer
- February 1, 2014
- December 8, 1930
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Dec 8, 2022 · Schell began acting in West German films and onstage before following his older sister, actress Maria Schell, to Hollywood, where he made his debut as a German army officer in The Young Lions (1958). Despite his rugged good looks, Schell eschewed leading-man roles in favour of more complex individuals, many of whom were drawn from the Nazi era.
Feb 1, 2014 · Goodnight, my excellent good master: Maximilian Schell, 1930-2014. Jim Beaver February 01, 2014. Tweet. Maximillian Schell in "Judgment at Nuremberg". Maximilian Schell, one of the greatest actors of his generation, an astonishing performer of enormous power and breadth, and a man I am massively proud to call my teacher and, briefly, my ...
Dec 10, 2019 · It was US director Edward Dmytryk who brought the young Austrian-Swiss actor Schell to Hollywood. Typically for that time, he gave the German-speaking actor the role of a Nazi. In the 1958...
Maximilian Schell: Actor who specialised in roles exploring Nazi era and its legacy and won an Oscar for ‘Judgment in Nuremberg’. The winner of the 1961 Academy Award for best actor passed away...
