Maximilian Schell dead at 83: Best Actor Oscar winner for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ (photo: Maximilian Schell ca. 1960) Actor and filmmaker Maximilian Schell, best known for his Oscar-winning performance as the defense attorney in Stanley Kramer’s 1961 political drama Judgment at Nuremberg died at a hospital in Innsbruck, Austria, on February 1, 2014. According to his agent, Patricia Baumbauer, Schell died overnight following a "sudden and serious illness." Maximilian Schell was 83. Born on December 8, 1930, in Vienna, Maximilian Schell was the younger brother of future actor Carl Schell and Maria Schell, who would become an international film star in the 1950s (The Last Bridge, Gervaise, The Hanging Tree). Immy Schell, who would be featured in several television and film productions from the mid-’50s to the early ’90s, was born in 1935. Following Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, Schell’s parents, Swiss playwright Hermann Ferdinand Schell and Austrian stage actress Margarete Schell Noé,...
- 2/2/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Melissa Leo arrives at the Golden Globes 2011 ceremony, hosted by Ricky Gervais. Leo won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in David O. Russell's The Fighter, which also earned Christian Bale the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe. Others in Fighter cast are Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams. Leo's awards-season speeches have garnered about as much praise as her performance in The Fighter. A couple of other Melissa Leo movies in 2010 were Welcome to the Rileys, with Kristen Stewart and James Gandolfini, and Conviction, with Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell. Melissa Leo will (probably) next be seen in Michael J. Narvaez's Lost Revolution. Photo: © HFPA. Click on the image to enlarge it.
- 1/17/2011
- by Zhea D.
- Alt Film Guide
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