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Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell was a Swiss actor, theatre director, filmmaker, and musician of Austrian origin. He was one of the most internationally acclaimed German-speaking actors of his generation, earning accolades for his work on both screen and stage. Born and initially raised in Vienna, where his parents were involved in the arts, he grew up surrounded by performance and literature. While he was still…
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entertainment · Swiss actor, filmmaker, and theatre director (1930–2014) · film director · film producer · autobiographer · screenwriter · stage actor · film actor · actor · director · playwright · musician · also Maximilian Schell, Schell
Born 8 December 1930 · Died 1 February 2014 · Q153018
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2023· 2 entries
His niece Marie Theres Relin (daughter of Maria Schell), wrote in a book that she was abused and lost her virginity to an "uncle" in 1980, when she was 14
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2014· 4 entries
Digital Journal: Actor Maximilian Schell dead at 83
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Yahoo: Oscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell dies at 83
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Digital Spy: Oscar winner Maximilian Schell dies, aged 83
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Died 2014-02-01.
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Bernhard Wicki Award (2011).
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Schell appeared at a 50th anniversary tribute to the film and his Oscar win, held in Los Angeles at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where he spoke about his career and the film
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2008· 1 entry
Became romantically involved with German opera singer Iva Mihanovic, who was 48 years his junior
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2007· 1 entry
Played the role of Albert Einstein on the German television series Giganten (Giants), which enacted the lives of people important in German history
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2006· 1 entry
Appeared in the stage play of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues, directed by Robert Altman, which played in London at the Old Vic
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2002· 2 entries
An intimate documentary about his sister, the noted actress Maria Schell
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Upon the completion of the film, they both received Bambi Awards, and were honored for their lifetime achievements and in recognition of the film
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1996· 1 entry
Played an Auschwitz survivor in Through Roses, a German film, written and directed by Jürgen Flimm; and in Left Luggage (1998) he played the father of a Jewish family
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1994· 1 entry
Producer Diana Botsford sued Schell for sexual harassment, after he allegedly propositioned her and tried to fondle her while they were working together on a television movie of which she was an associate producer
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1993· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Stalin (1993).
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1985· 1 entry
Met the Russian actress Natalya Andrejchenko, whom he married in June 1985; their daughter Nastassja was born in 1989
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1983· 1 entry
And Bernstein co-hosted an 11-part TV series, Bernstein/Beethoven, featuring nine live symphonies, along with discussions between Bernstein and Schell about Beethoven's works
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1971· 1 entry
Had an affair with Neile Adams, according to her
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1968· 1 entry
Schell began writing, producing, directing and acting in a number of his own films: Among those were The Castle (1968), a German film based on the novel by Franz Kafka, about a man trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Judgment at Nuremberg (1962).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Judgment at Nuremberg (1962).
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1960· 1 entry
Schell returned to Germany and played the title role in William Shakespeare's Hamlet for German TV, a role that he would play on two more occasions in live theatre productions during his career
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1959· 1 entry
Schell acted in the role of a defence attorney on a live TV production, Judgment at Nuremberg, a fictionalized re-creation of the Nuremberg War Trials, in an edition of Playhouse 90
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1958· 1 entry
Schell was invited to the United States to act in the Broadway play, "Interlock" by Ira Levin, in which Schell played the role of an aspiring concert pianist
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1948· 1 entry
And 1949, when I wrote part of my first novel, which I have never shown to anyone, I isolated myself in one of the hunting cabins for three months, without a telephone, without electricity, with heat only from a large op
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1938· 2 entries
When Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled in Zürich
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To get "away from Hitler" after the Anschluss, when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-12-08.
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