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Maximilian Schell - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Actor, Writer, Producer, Director.
December 8, 1930 Vienna - February 1, 2014, Innsbruck - Austrian actor, producer and director
After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, the Schell family moved to Switzerland. Maximilian Schell grew up in Zurich, which also influenced his creative development. During World War II, Zurich assumed the role of the cultural center of German-speaking Europe. Maximilian studied Germanic studies, art and literary history, musicology and theater studies in Zurich and Munich. He almost became a member of the football team of the Zurich club Grasshopper, of which he was a recognized fan. However, in 1952, Shell transferred to the acting department and a year later, studying acting at the Bern Conservatory (now the Graduate School of the Arts in Bern), he made his acting debut in 1953 at the Basel City Theater as an actor, director and playwright. In 1959, after changing several jobs, Shell settled at the Munich Chamber Theater. In the same year, Gustaf Grundgens invited him to Hamburg, In the late 1960s, Maximilian Schell worked in London and also translated Shakespeare. In 1978, Shell landed the title role in Hoffmannstahl's The Name of the Name, which he performed after Kurd Jurgens at the Salzburg Festival until 1982. Shell is also known as an opera director. In 2007, he surprised the whole theatrical world with his successful production of Johann Strauss's operetta Vienna Blood on an open stage in Morbisch am See, Austria. The fame and popularity of Shell was brought by cinema and television. His first film "Children, Mother and General" Maximilian Schell shot back in 1955. In 1958 he was invited to shoot in Hollywood and starred in the film Young Lions with Marlon Brando. Shella made a world-class film star as a lawyer for Nazi criminals in Stanley Kramer's film The Nuremberg Trials, for which he won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Actor. The Nuremberg Trials was followed by Shell's successful Topkapi (1964) .
In the late 1960s, Shell turned to producing and directing. His film "First Love", which won universal recognition, was followed by: "The Pedestrian" (1974), "The Judge and His Executioner" based on the novel of the same name by Friedrich Durrenmatt (1975), as well as the famous documentaries: "Marlene" (1984) about Marlene Dietrich, "My Sister Mary" (2002) about Sister Maria Schell, who was already suffering from dementia at the time.
Maximilian Schell is considered one of the most famous German-speaking actors in the world. In addition to winning an Academy Award in 1962, Shell has several nominations for Lead Actor and Supporting Role, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Documentary. In 2002, Maximilian and Maria Schell received the Bambi Prize for their contributions to art .
During the last year of his life he suffered from severe back pain and moved in a wheelchair. Died on February 1, 2014 in Austria after spinal surgery without recovering from anesthesia. Buried in Preyteneg, Carinthia. The private life of Maximilian Schell did not remain in the shadows: the media covered in detail the three-year romance between Maximilian Schell and Soraya Esfandiari Bakhtiari, the former wife of the last shah of Iran. In 1985, Shell married the Soviet actress Natalya Andreichenko (26 years younger than Shell), and in 1989 they had a daughter, Nastya. In 2005, an official divorce followed. Maximilian Schell was in a relationship with the Viennese gallery owner Elisabeth Mihich, who is 47 years younger than him. Since 2008, he lived in a civil marriage with the opera singer of German-Croatian origin Iva Mikhanovich, and on August 20, 2013 they entered into an official marriage. In addition to theater, film and television, Maximilian Schell wrote and painted. He lived alternately in Los Angeles and his parents' home in the mountains of Carinthia.
Maximilian Schell was the godfather of actress Angelina Jolie.

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