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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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