Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell (born December 8, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Austrian actor. He is also a writer, director and producer of several films.
Schell made his Hollywood debut in 1958 in the World War II film The Young Lions. In 1959, he appeared as Hans Rolfe, the defense attorney, in a live Playhouse 90 television production of Judgment at Nuremberg. In 1961, he reprised the 
role on film, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1974’s The Pedestrian, for which Schell wrote, produced, directed, and starred, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
Schell refused to be typecast. Although he was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films as The Man in the Glass Booth; *Counterpoint (1968) ; A Bridge Too Far; Cross of Iron; The Odessa File; Julia; and Judgment at Nuremberg; he has also appeared in Topkapi; Krakatoa, East of Java; The Black Hole; The Freshman; John Carpenter’s Vampires; Stalin; Deep Impact; Candles in the Dark; Erste Liebe and the mini-series Peter the Great (1986) co-starring Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier. Since the 1990s, Schell has appeared in many German language made-for-TV films, such as the 2003 film Alles Glück dieser Erde (All the Luck in the World) opposite Uschi Glas and in the mini-series The Return of the Dancing Master (2004), which was based on Henning Mankell’s novel.
