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Acting

Maximilian Schell

Career: Active from 1955 to 2015, busiest in 1979 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 61
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Marlene
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 50 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Maximilian Schell Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.7, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.5, average 2.7
Pop Culture
1.0, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.5, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 10
Character-Driven 7
Historical Drama 6
Historical Setting 6
Psychological Drama 5
Social Commentary 5
Moral Ambiguity 5
Psychological Thriller 5
Period Piece 4
Post-War Germany 4
Psychological Depth 3
Melancholy 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

108

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

2 titles

Les brigands

as Mr. Escher

Jedermann Remixed

as Jedermann (archive footage)

2000s

18 titles · average score 55

The Brothers Bloom

63

as Diamond Dog

The Shell Seekers

59

as Lawrence Sterne

Die Rosenkönigin

as Karl Friedrich Weidemann

House of the Sleeping Beauties

44

as Kogi

Die Liebe eines Priesters

as Father Christoph

The Return of the Dancing Master

58

as Fernando Hereira

Der Fürst und das Mädchen

TV show · as Friedrich Fürst von Thorwald

Alles Glück dieser Erde

as Xaver Schönborn

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

as Karl Steingraf

My Sister Maria

53

Director, Executive Producer

Festival in Cannes

54

as Viktor Kovner

Just Messing About

as Poser

1990s

22 titles · average score 61

On the Wings of Love

as Hochberg

Deep Impact

50

as Jason Lerner

Vampires

50

as Cardinal Alba

Telling Lies in America

59

as Dr. Istvan Jonas

The Eighteenth Angel

46

as Father Simeon

Little Odessa

62

as Arkady Shapira

Candles in the Dark

as Colonel Arkush

Justice

60

as Isaak Kohler

Stalin

65

as Vladimir Lenin

Miss Rose White

60

as Mordecai Weiss

Young Catherine

66

TV show · as Frederick the Great

You Can't Live Like That

as German Commentator

1980s

11 titles · average score 67

The Rose Garden

72

as Aaron

Wiseguy

59

TV show · as Amado Guzman

Peter the Great

77

TV show · as Peter the Great

The Assisi Underground

56

as Col. Müller

Die Föhnforscher

Co-Producer

Marlene

90

Director

Man Under Suspicion

as Lawyer Landau

The Phantom of the Opera

54

as Sandor Korvin/Phantom

Les Îles

as Fabrice

The Chosen

71

as Professor David Malter

The Diary of Anne Frank

60

as Otto Frank

1970s

19 titles · average score 57

The Black Hole

51

as Dr. Hans Reinhardt

Players

27

as Marco

Cross of Iron

71

as Hauptmann Stransky

Julia

67

as Johann

St. Ives

44

as Dr. John Constable

The Man in the Glass Booth

74

as Arthur Goldman

End of the Game

45

as Robert Schmied on Audiotape (voice) (uncredited)

The Day That Shook the World

61

as Đuro Šarac

The Odessa File

67

as Eduard Roschmann

The Pedestrian

67

as Andreas Giese

Paulina 1880

as Count Michele Cantarini

First Love

59

as Vater

1960s

19 titles · average score 63

Krakatoa, East of Java

23

as Captain Chris Hanson

Heidi

64

as Richard Sessemann

The Castle

66

as K

Counterpoint

64

as Gen. Schiller

The Deadly Affair

64

as Dieter Frey

Return from the Ashes

69

as Stanislaw Pilgrin

Der seidene Schuh

TV show · as Don Rodrigo

Topkapi

81

as Walter Harper

The Condemned of Altona

74

as Franz von Gerlach

The Reluctant Saint

79

as Giuseppe

Judgment at Nuremberg

81

as Hans Rolfe

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

27

as Hamlet

1950s

17 titles · average score 73

The Young Lions

73

as Capt. Hardenberg

Children of the Mountains

as Josef Ospel

as Herzog Albrecht von Bayern

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

TV show

The Last Ones Shall Be First

as Lorenz Darrandt

Taxichauffeur Bänz

as Toni Schellenberg

The Girl from Flanders

as Alexander Haller

Playhouse 90

79

TV show · as Otto Rolfe

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

as Dr. Oswald Hauser

Ein Herz kehrt heim

as Wolfgang Thomas, beider Sohn

as Jürgen Sengebusch

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Rose's Father