Maximilian Schell Dies

[Jimbuna]

Another great actor leaves us.

RIP Max

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25999203

[STEED]

I remember him as the evil Roschmann in the "Odessa File" but for me the bloody minded bastard Captain Stransky from "Cross of Iron".


Farewell.

[Jimbuna]

Yeah, two of my favourites.

[Buddahaid]

I always remember him as Hauptmann Stransky in "Cross of Iron".

[August]

He was also in the great Paratrooper movie classic "A Bridge too far" but then again so was nearly every other big name actor of the time. :)

[Jimbuna]

A list of the movies he appeared in:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=maximilian+schell+films&oq=maximillian+schell+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.14400j0j8&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

[Sailor Steve]

Judgment at Nuremberg.

[nikimcbee]

I remember him from Peter the Great.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090502/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_44

[Aktungbby]

The mark of a good actor is to do the material in a straight-forward fashion no matter how big or small the part as a 'working actor'. Part of the fun of watching some one entertain you (an actor's primary function as Tom Cruise admitted) is to study how they do it; with the best , you 'can't see the strings move'. With Mr.Schell you never saw the strings move; he was, like George C Scott in Patton for example, the thing he portrayed...in character, the mark of a craft-master! A Fabulous and long, Oscar winning career: now on a higher stage. At the end, like Oliver Reed in Gladiator, he was still on set, working , "in harness" to the end...Whadda way to go! :salute:

[Rhodes]

RIP!

"Captain Stransky (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001703/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): I will show you how a true Prussian officer fights.
Sargeant Steiner (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000336/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Then I will show you, where the Iron Crosses grow"

[August]

"Flatten Arnhem"

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsS/15430-2464.gif

[tmccarthy]

From IMDB Schell personal qoutes:

When asked by journalists in Vienna (his family's home) what I enjoy most about living and working in North America, I answered, "Freedom." The reporters told me, "We're sorry, Mr. Schell; but it needs to be something else, because we can't print that." So I rest my case.

"I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes."

[TorpX]

R.I.P.

I liked him in Cross of Iron, and A Bridge too Far.

It seems like I've seen him in a lot of other films, but none of the titles in the list look familiar. :hmmm:

[donna52522]

Old thread, sorry...I thought he was great in 'The Young Lions', along side of Marlon Brando, Dean Martin, and Montgomery Clift.

In fact I am watching it as I post this :)

[Wolferz]

Fashionably late, Donna?:03::D