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[8] In 2002, upon the completion of the film, they both received Bambi Awards, and were honored for their lifetime achievements and in recognition of the film.[12]. Sélectionner au maximum 100 images à télécharger. "[8], Schell subsequently acted in seven more films made in Europe before going to the U.S.[9] Among those was The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (also 1955). [37] After 2002, separated from his wife (whom he divorced in 2005), Schell had a relationship with the Austrian art historian Elisabeth Michitsch. Image dated February 11, 1959. Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-born Swiss[1] film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. . After 2002, separated from his wife (whom he divorced in 2005), Schell had a relationship with the Austrian art historian Elisabeth Michitsch… 1961: Won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the American film "Judgment at Nuremberg". . [4], In Zurich, Schell "grew up reading the classics", and when he was ten, wrote his first play. Last year he married the German-Croatian opera singer Iva Mihanovic; she and his daughter by his first marriage, Nastassja, survive him. [12], Schell was a guest professor at the University of Southern California and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago.[12]. . . [31], Schell creatively showed only silhouettes of her along with old film clips during their interview soundtrack. Le contrat Premium Access de votre équipe se termine bientôt. Maximilian Schell and his daughter Nastassja Schell attend the Germany Filmball 2013 on January 19, 2013 in Munich, Germany. Among those were two films for which he received Oscar nominations: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975; best actor), where he played a character with two identities, and Julia (1977; best supporting actor), where he helps the underground in Nazi Germany. Daughter of writer Ferdinand Hermann Schell and actress Margarete Schell Noé. So as soon as I made up my mind, there was no sense any more in continuing to study and in getting a degree. Along with Laurence Olivier, Schell is considered "one of the greatest Hamlets ever," according to one writer. Schell then returned to Zurich, where he served in the Swiss Army for a year, after which he re-entered the University of Zurich for another year, and later, the University of Basel for six months. "[18] It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, winning two. A university degree is just a title. . Wistful leading lady, in international films from the early 1940s, whose career crested in the 50s. Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by acting and literature. Maximilian had appointed his daughter Margaret as both Regent of the Netherlands and the guardian and educator of his grandsons Charles and Ferdinand (their father, Philip, having predeceased Maximilian), and she fulfilled this task well. An actor must have pauses in between work, to renew himself, to read, to walk, to chop wood. [3], The Schell family was forced to flee Vienna in 1938 to get "away from Hitler" after the Anschluss, when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. [10] Later in the same year he had a supporting role in Jackboot Mutiny, in which he plays "a sensitive philosopher", who uses ethics to privately debate the arguments for assassinating Hitler. "[3], Conductor Leonard Bernstein claimed that Schell was a "remarkably good pianist." Maximilian Schell was married to Natalya Andreychenko from 1985-2005. "[27] Schell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance. 1980: German Film Award in Silver (program-filling feature film) for, 1984: German Film Award, Film Award for the role, 1985: Golden Globe nomination (documentary) for, 1999: Method Fest for Lifetime Achievement, 2009: Bambi Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2011: Honorary Award of the Bernhard Wicki Film Award – The Bridge, This page was last edited on 14 March 2021, at 00:51. © 2021 Getty Images. Due to concerns about Nazism in Austria, the family moved to Switzerland when Schell was eight years old. In 1985 he met the Russian actress Natalya Andrejchenko, whom he married in June 1986; their daughter Nastassja was born in 1989. Became one of the first movie idols to the postwar generation in the German-speaking countries with her distinctive "smile under tears". (Carmel Dagan, … . In The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), adapted from the stage play by Robert Shaw, Schell played both a Nazi officer and a Jewish Holocaust survivor, in a character with a double identity. In 1960, 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. He appeared in numerous German films, often anti-war, before moving on to Hollywood. He worked on the film project Beethoven's Fidelio, with Plácido Domingo and Kent Nagano. Schell's film debut was in the German anti-war film Kinder, Mütter und ein General (Children, Mothers, and a General, 1955). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, which was the first win for a German-speaking actor since World War II.[13]. . In 1959, 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. Schell was born in the Austrian capital Vienna, the daughter of actress Margarethe (née Noé von Nordberg; 1905–1995), who ran an acting school, and Hermann Ferdinand Schell (1900–1972), a Swiss poet, novelist, playwright, and owner of a pharmacy. To avoid being typecast, Schell also played more diverse characters in numerous films throughout his career: he played a museum treasure thief in Topkapi (1964); a Venezuelan leader in Simón Bolívar (1969); a 19th-century ship captain in Krakatoa, East of Java (1969); a Captain Nemo-esque scientist/starship commander in the science fiction film, The Black Hole (1979); the Russian emperor in the television miniseries, Peter the Great (1986), opposite Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave and Trevor Howard, which won an Emmy Award; a comedy role with Marlon Brando in The Freshman (1990); Reese Witherspoon's surrogate grandfather in A Far Off Place; a treacherous Cardinal in John Carpenter's Vampires (1998); as Frederick the Great in a TV film, Young Catherine (1991); as Vladimir Lenin in the TV series, Stalin (1992), for which he won the Golden Globe Award;[28] a Russian KGB colonel in Candles in the Dark (1993); the Pharaoh in Abraham (1994); and Tea Leoni's father in the science fiction thriller, Deep Impact (1998). [35][36] The film, made three years before her death, shows her mental and physical frailty, leading to her withdrawing from the world. In 1983, he 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. During that period, he acted professionally in small parts, in both classical and modern plays, and decided that he would from then on devote his life to acting rather than pursue academic studies: I then decided, either you are a scientist or an artist. Iva Mihanovic was born on April 19, 1978 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He also was rumored to have been engaged to the first African American Supermodel Donyale Luna in the mid 1960s. Schell was a semi-professional pianist for much of his life. It is like an award; it does not mean anything in itself. Maximilian Schell was born in Vienna on Dec. 8, 1930, one of four children of Hermann Ferdinand Schell, a Swiss-born playwright and pharmacy owner, and … She was born in Vienna on Jan. 15, 1926, the daughter of a Swiss writer and an Austrian actress. not only because you are close to me but because I count you among the truly great actors, and it is wonderful that besides that you are my brother.' In this film, notes one critic, "Schell probes the conscience and guilt in terms of the individual and of society, reaching to the universal heart of responsibility and moral inertia. In 1985 he met the Russian actress Natalya Andrejchenko, whom he married in June 1986; their daughter Nastassja was born in 1989. During the 1960s Schell had a three-year-long affair with Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, former wife of the last Shah of Iran. Schell was an accomplished pianist and conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. 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