Maximilian Schell
Director, Actor
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell…
- Dramatisation of the trial of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg, facing the patient integrity of Judge Spencer Tracy. Epic, gripping courtroom drama, with…
Topkapi (1964)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell…
- A classy comic–romantic spin on the director’s RIFIFI shot on location in Turkey and Greece, that climaxes with another brilliantly exacted…
Counterpoint (1967)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen
- During World War II, a conductor (Charlton Heston) and his orchestra are captured by the Nazis while touring Europe. While held captive in a castle,…
Heidi (1968)
- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Walter Slezak…
- TV movie adaptation of the 1880 novel about the Swiss orphan who is left in the care of her grumpy grandparents in the alps.
Odessa File, The (1974)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell…
- Jon Voight plays a German journalist on the trail of Nazi war criminals. From Frederic Forsyth's bestseller.
American Film Theatre - The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman…
- Another intense, performance based entrant in the American Film Theatre series, with Schell playing a wealthy Jewish industrialist who survived the…
St. Ives (1976)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset…
- Enjoyable riff on 1940s private–eye noir (especially THE MALTESE FALCON), in which a wouldbe novelist–gumshoe (Bronson) gets way out of…
Cross of Iron (1977)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason…
- A doomed German platoon facing annihilation at Russian hands find their instinct for personal glory greater than their instinct for…
Black Hole, The (1979)
- Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster…
- Maniacal scientist Maximilian Schell plans to dive into a vast ‘black hole’ in space – this is the compelling idea of one of…
Phantom of the Opera (1983)
- Dir. Robert Markowitz
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York
- Nicely–produced TV version of the Gaston Leroux classic, that while straying far from the source, puts perhaps the darkest twist on the story…