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3	Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-Swiss actor, director, screenwriter and producer.
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5	Schell was born in Vienna to show business parents (his father was a playwright and novelist and his mother was an actress). After Austria was annexed by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1938 the family moved to Zurich, Switzerland, which was where Schell grew up. He studied at university in Germany and Switzerland, and served a year in the Swiss Army before following in his mother's footsteps and becoming an actor.
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7	He started out on the stage before making his film debut with German movie ''Children, Mothers, and a General'' in 1955. (Creator/KlausKinski starred.) He made his English-language debut in 1959's ''The Young Lions'' opposite Creator/MontgomeryClift and Creator/MarlonBrando. The 1961 film ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg'', in which he played a German defense attorney for Nazi war criminals, made him a huge international star and won him an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor.
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9	In the late 1960s Schell began to produce and direct his own projects, eventually directing eight films. Meanwhile, his fluent English got him a lot of parts as either Nazis or persecuted Jews in American World War II movies. He also dipped into sci-fi, taking the lead role in Disney's notorious BoxOfficeBomb ''Film/TheBlackHole''. In his later career Schell continued to work as a character actor while helming such documentaries as ''Marlene'' (about Creator/MarleneDietrich) and ''My Sister Maria'' (about his older sister, film actress Maria Schell). In 2001 he starred in a [[ScreenToStageAdaptation Broadway adaptation]] of ''Judgement at Nuremberg'', this time in the role of Ernst Janning.
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11	When he wasn't busy acting or directing, Schell occasionally moonlighted as a concert pianist. He was married to Russian actress Natalya Andreychenko, with whom he had a daughter, from 1985 to 2005 and to German opera singer Iva Mihanovic from 2013 until his death from pneumonia a year later.
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13	A 1961 German film version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', with Schell in the title role, served as the basis for [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E09Hamlet one of the last episodes]] of the original run of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Schell considered ''Hamlet'' one of his favorite roles (on stage, if not in this particular film), and for a 1968 production he even created a new German translation which he considered more faithful to the spirit of Shakespeare's text.
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16	!!Maximilian Schell on TV Tropes:
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18	* ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg'' (1961)
19	* ''Film/{{Topkapi}}'' (1964)
20	* ''Film/ReturnFromTheAshes'' (1965)
21	* ''Film/{{Counterpoint\|1968}}'' (1968)
22	* ''Film/{{First Love\|1970}}'' (also directed)
23	* ''Film/{{The Pedestrian\|1973}}'' (1973) (also directed)
24	* ''Film/TheOdessaFile'' (1974)
25	* ''Film/TheDayThatShookTheWorld'' (1975)
26	* ''Film/TheManInTheGlassBooth'' (1975)
27	* ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'' (1977)
28	* ''Film/CrossOfIron'' (1977)
29	* ''Film/{{Julia}}'' (1977)
30	* ''Film/TheBlackHole'' (1979)
31	* ''[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1983 The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (1983)
32	* ''Film/TheFreshman1990''
33	* ''Film/DeepImpact'' (1998)
34	* ''Film/HouseOfTheSleepingBeauties'' (2006)
35	* ''Film/TheBrothersBloom'' (2008)

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