Maximilian Schell Autographs
Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor, theatre director, filmmaker, and musician of Austrian origin. He was one of the most internationally-acclaimed German-speaking actors of his generation, earning accolades for his work on both screen and stage. Born and initially raised in Vienna, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by performance and literature. While he was still a child, his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled in Zürich. After the Second World War, Schell took up acting and directing full-time.
Schell won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a lawyer in the legal drama Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). He was Oscar-nominated for playing a character with multiple identities in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) and for playing a man resisting Nazism in Julia (1977). Fluent in both English and German, Schell earned top billing in a number of Nazi-era themed films. He acted in films such as Topkapi (1964), The Deadly Affair (1967), Counterpoint (1968), Simón Bolívar (1969), The Odessa File (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Deep Impact (1998). He made his film directorial debut with the period romantic drma First Love (1970), and would be nominated for the German Film Award for Best Director three times.
On television, he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the NBC film Miss Rose White and the HBO television film Stalin (1992), the later of which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He also portrayed Otto Frank in the TV film The Diary of Anne Frank (1980), the Russian emperor Peter the Great in the NBC series Peter the Great (1986), Frederick the Great in the British series Young Catherine (1991), and Brother Jean le Maistre in the miniseries Joan of Arc (1999).
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Traded items with a signature of Maximilian Schell
The most expensive item with a signature of Maximilian Schell (JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG MAXIMILIAN SCHELL GEORGE GRIZZARD CAST SIGNED PLAYBILL NYC) was sold in March 2025 for $305.99 while the cheapest item (MAXIMILIAN SCHELL Hand Signed Newspaper Page -AUTHENTIC) found a new owner for $0.99 in October 2010. The month with the most items sold (3) was May 2025 with an average selling price of $28.98 for an autographed item of Maximilian Schell. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with $135.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was October 2010. In average, an autographed item from Maximilian Schell is worth $28.99.
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