Maximilian Schell
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Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 â 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-born Swiss actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg, his second acting role in Hollywood. Born in Austria, 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 Zurich. After World War II ended, Schell took up acting and directing full-time. He appeared in numerous German films, often anti-war, before moving to Hollywood. Fluent in both English and German, Schell earned top billing in a number of Nazi-era themed films. Two earned him Oscar nominations: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), for a character with two identities, and Julia (1977), portraying a member of a group resisting Nazism. His range of portrayals included personalities as diverse as Venezuelan leader Simón BolÃvar, Russian emperor Peter the Great, and physicist Albert Einstein. For his role as Vladimir Lenin in the television film Stalin (1992) he won the Golden Globe Award. Schell also performed in a number of stage plays, including a celebrated performance as Prince Hamlet.
Schell was an accomplished pianist and conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His elder sister was the internationally noted actress Maria Schell; he produced the documentary tribute My Sister Maria in 2002.
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- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Aria: I am old featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Aria: Oh, your sisters - Narration 12: And in Shechem was a great stone featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Aria: Israel, Israel; The Lord has given you a land - Narration 13: So he let his people depart featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Aria: This day I am going the way of all the Earth - Narrator: So he came featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Chorus of the Priests: All the cities to the great sea - Narration 10: So, Joshua featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Aria and Chorus: The Lord has given you all the land - Narration 11: So all these cities featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Aria: Sanctify Yourselves! - Narration 4 (ctd.): And truly on that morrow featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Aria: Be strong and of good courage - Narration 2: And in the plains of Moab featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Chorus: Joshua, son of Nun - Narration 3: And Joshua set aside featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Narrator and Chorus: Shout! For the Lord has given you the city featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Prelude - Narration 1: The Sun was fading in the West featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Chorus: Thus stood time - Narrator: But Moses was old featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Fanfare - Narration 6: And Jericho featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Narration 5: Then Joshua lifted up his eyes
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Battle Fanfares - Narration 8: And till the sinking of the sun featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Aria: Sun, stand thou still - Narration 9: And the sun stood still featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Chorus and Joshua: Ambassadors of Gibeon featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Interlude - Narrator: But with your new morning, Joshua featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 1 - Aria: But, with your new morning - Narrator: So Moses faced his people featuring Maximilian Schell
- Waxman: Joshua / Part 2 - Narration 7 and Chorus: And it came to pass featuring Maximilian Schell
