Maximilian Schell
Was an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961. He is also a writer, director and producer of several films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maximilian Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Deep Impact
as Jason LernerA seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet....
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The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII...
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The Odessa File
as Eduard RoschmannFollowing the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out...
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Cross of Iron
as Hauptmann StranskyIt is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian...
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Vampires
as Cardinal AlbaThe church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires...
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The Black Hole
as Dr. Hans ReinhardtThe explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for...
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Judgment at Nuremberg
as Hans RolfeIn 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military...
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The Brothers Bloom
as Diamond DogThe Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex...
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The Young Lions
as Capt. HardenbergThe lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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Little Odessa
as Arkady ShapiraLong separated from his Russian family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract...
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The Freshman
as Larry LondonAfter a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling...
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Julia
as JohannAt the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous...
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Abraham
as PharaoRather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from...
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Telling Lies in America
as Dr. Istvan JonasA 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually...
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Topkapi
as Walter HarperArthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential...
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The Deadly Affair
as Dieter FreyCharles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office...
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Avalanche Express
as Colonel Nikolai BuninCIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is...
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Stalin
as Vladimir LeninThe life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
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A Far Off Place
as Col. Mopani TheronThrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength...
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St. Ives
as Dr. John ConstableA dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
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Coast to Coast
as CasimirBarnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of...
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The Chosen
as Professor David MalterIn a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep...
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Krakatoa, East of Java
as Captain Chris HansonA team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883...
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Counterpoint
as Gen. SchillerIn December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO...
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Return from the Ashes
as Stanislaw PilgrinA Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to...
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Heidi
as Richard SessemannHeidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order...
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The Condemned of Altona
as Franz von GerlachA dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future...
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The Man in the Glass Booth
as Arthur GoldmanArthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He...
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The Return of the Dancing Master
as Fernando HereiraStefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner...
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First Love
as VaterThe story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
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Simon Bolivar
as Simón BolívarSimon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.
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The Day That Shook the World
as Đuro ŠaracAn historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz...
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House of the Sleeping Beauties
as KogiEdmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret...
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Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
as Self (archive footage)A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron," shot in Yugoslavia in 1976.
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Miss Rose White
as Mordecai WeissTwo sisters, one a Polish concentration camp survivor, the other safely relocated to America...
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The Assisi Underground
as Col. MüllerThis film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing...
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John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as German NarratorAn overview of John F. Kennedy's political career. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in...
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The Reluctant Saint
as GiuseppeCupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired...
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The Shell Seekers
as Lawrence SternePenelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and...
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The Rose Garden
as AaronIn Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto FrankThe story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis...
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The Eighteenth Angel
as Father SimeonMythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached...
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To Be Hamlet
as SelfDocumentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the...
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The Phantom of the Opera
as Sandor Korvin/PhantomThe Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having...
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Left Luggage
as Mr. SilberschmidtWhile escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his...
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Children, Mother, and the General
as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmachtAs Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their...
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Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki
as HimselfDocumentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.
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The Pedestrian
as Andreas GieseWhen a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start...
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Darkness
as uncreditedA man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early...
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The Fifth Column
as uncreditedA TV film made as part of The Buick-Electra Playhouse.
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Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Theatre VisitorBased on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who...
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Candles in the Dark
as Colonel ArkushCandles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet...
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Pope Joan
as AdrianBased on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D....
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Festival in Cannes
as Viktor KovnerCannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe...
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The Desperate Ones
as MarekIn 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the...
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Paulina 1880
as uncreditedIn 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a...
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Justice
as Isaak KohlerSenator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is...
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You Can't Live Like That
as German CommentatorA film about the sociopolitical condition of the Soviet society at the end of the eighties.
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Die Rosenkönigin
as Karl Friedrich WeidemannThe Weidemann have a perfume factory but the business goes bad and blindly trust Marie, a young...
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Together?
as GiovanniLouise has left her husband, launched a career as a dress designer, and together with her son...
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The Castle
as KA man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But...
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Marlene
as HimselfRetrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.
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Black Flowers
as Jacob KrinstenFollowing the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking...
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Alles Glück dieser Erde
as Xaver SchönbornTo their big surprise, the capable waitress Gundula Kirchner receives from the estate owner...
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Players
as MarcoA rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love.
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Mitglied des Kreisauer KreisesA disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators...
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The Girl from Flanders
as Alexander HallerA love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.
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Jedermann Remixed
as Jedermann (archive footage)Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete...
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Die Liebe eines Priesters
as Father ChristophFranz Josef Gottlieb's last movie.
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My Sister Maria
as HimselfMaximilian Schell's portrait of his sister Maria.
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Les brigands
as Mr. EscherKarl Escher, the son of a prominent banker, was accused of embezzlement and forgery at the bank...
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The Vampyre Wars
as Rodan1996 horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and Robert Englund
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
as HamletHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying...
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Why Havel?
as uncreditedThe first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in...
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Die Alpenklinik
as Dr. Alexander OhlendorfAfter an alleged malpractice that led to the death of his brother, heart surgeon Daniel Guth...
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Five Finger Exercise
as WalterThe arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
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Man Under Suspicion
as Lawyer LandauMan Under Suspicion (German: Morgen in Alabama) is a 1984 West German film directed by Norbert...
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Children of the Mountains
as Josef OspelJosef Rainer is a road worker in a mountain village in Liechtenstein. His wife Marianne works as...
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In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
as SelfThe actor and the writer reminisce about working on both the Playhouse 90 and Stanley Kramer...
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Judgment at Nuremberg
as Otto RolfeJudgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part...
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
as SelfThe Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian...
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Markus Lanz
as SelfTV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to...
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Bambi Awards
as Self - LaudationThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - GuestThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...
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Wiseguy
as Amado GuzmanVinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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Playhouse 90
as Otto RolfePlayhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to...
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Joan of Arc
as Brother Jean le MaistreJoan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During...
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Peter the Great
as Peter the GreatPeter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian...
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as uncreditedWestinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rose's FatherHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Young Catherine
as Frederick the GreatA Prussian princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and...
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Abraham
as PharaohThe life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God and the father of Judaism, spanning from the...
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