Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell (Maximilian Schell, December 8, 1930-February 1, 2014), Austria-Swiss Movie actor, director, screenwriter and producer, won the current Academy Award for his performance in the 1961 Movie " Judgment at Nuremberg " for Best Actor in a Leading Role .
Early Experience
Maximilian Schell, Austrian-German actor and director. Born in Vienna. His sister is Maria Schell, the leading actress of Germany .
During World War II, he moved to Switzerland with his parents and studied at three universities in Zurich, Basel, and Munich, where he majored in art history and literary history, and also learned to play the piano.
Performing Experience
In 1952, he appeared on the stage as a professional actor and performed in first-class theaters in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other countries. Later, he participated in the Salzburg Theater Festival and performed on Broadway in New York. He became well-known in European and American theater circles.
In 1955, he started filming Movies in Germany .
In 1958, because of the success of "Interlock" on Broadway, he was invited by Hollywood to play a German officer in the film "The Young Lion."
In 1960, he put Shakespeare's "Hamlet" on the Television screen and played the Danish prince himself.
Two years later, he emerged in Hollywood. Later, the famous director Stanley Kramer hired him to star in " Judgment at Nuremberg ". For his outstanding acting skills, he won the 34th Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Best Actor awarded by the New York Film Critics Association. prize. But in the following years, he only performed unsuccessful performances in second- and third-rate films, so he focused on directing and producing.
In 1968, he raised funds to make Kafka's novel "Castle" into a Movie and served as the protagonist.
In the 1970s, he directed Movie "First Love" based on Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's novel for the first time . In 1974, another masterpiece "The Walker" was released. He set producer, screenwriter, director and starring role in one. The film was nominated for The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Award . At the same time, he also starred in the films "Topkapi", " A Bridge Too Far ", "The Man in the Straw Canopy", "Julia", etc. The latter two films earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor twice. Nominated in a Leading Role
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On February 1, 2014, Maximilian Schell’s agent Baumbaur announced that Maximilian Schell had died of a serious illness in a hospital in Innsbruck Main in western Austria at the age of 83.
