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!