Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor. Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by performance and literature. While he was still a child, his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled in Zürich. After World War II ended, Schell took up acting and directing full-time.

Schell won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a lawyer in the legal drama Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). He was Oscar-nominated for playing a character with multiple identities in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) and for playing a man resisting Nazism in Julia (1977). Fluent in both English and German, Schell earned top billing in a number of Nazi-era themed films. He acted in films such as Topkapi (1964), The Deadly Affair (1967), Counterpoint (1968), Simón Bolívar (1969), The Odessa File (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Deep Impact (1998).

On television, he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the NBC film Miss Rose White and the HBO television film Stalin (1992), the later of which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He also portrayed Otto Frank in the TV film The Diary of Anne Frank (1980), the Russian emperor Peter the Great in the NBC series Peter the Great (1986), Frederick the Great in the British series Young Catherine (1991), and Brother Jean le Maistre in the miniseries Joan of Arc (1999).

Schell also performed in a number of stage plays, including a celebrated performance as Prince Hamlet. Schell was an accomplished pianist and conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His elder sister was the internationally noted actress Maria Schell; he produced the documentary tribute My Sister Maria in 2002.

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Maximilian Schell (Viena, Àustria, 8 de desembre de 1930 — Innsbruck, Suïssa, 1 de febrer de 2014) fou un actor suís nascut a Àustria. Va guanyar un premi Oscar pel seu paper en la pel·lícula "Els judicis de Nuremberg" de 1961. Com a actor va participar en més de 90 pel·lícules, va fer incomptables papers teatrals i també va ser productor i director de cinema. La germana de Schell, Maria Schell, també és actriu.

是一位出生于奥地利的瑞士演员，1961 年因在纽伦堡的审判中的角色而获得奥斯卡最佳男主角奖。他还是多部电影的编剧、导演和制片人。

是一位出生於奧地利的瑞士演員，1961 年因在紐倫堡的審判中的角色而獲得奧斯卡最佳男主角獎。他還是多部電影的編劇、導演和製片人。

Maximilian Schell (* 8. Dezember 1930 in Wien; † 1. Februar 2014 in Innsbruck) war ein Schauspieler, Regisseur und Produzent mit österreichischer und schweizerischer Staatsangehörigkeit. Er gewann 1962 den Oscar als bester Hauptdarsteller für seine Rolle in Das Urteil von Nürnberg. Schell zählte zu den bekanntesten und profiliertesten deutschsprachigen Darstellern und wirkte rund fünf Jahrzehnte lang in internationalen Filmproduktionen mit. Quelle: Wikipedia

Maximilian Schell (nascido em 8 de dezembro de 1930) é um ator suíço nascido na Áustria que ganhou o Oscar de Melhor Ator por seu papel em Judgment em Nuremberg em 1961. Ele também é escritor, diretor e produtor de vários filmes.

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Максимилиан Шелл - австрийский актёр, продюсер и режиссёр. Обладатель премий «Оскар» и «Золотой глобус» за главную роль в фильме «Нюрнбергский процесс» (1961).