ACTOR

Maximilian Schell

1930 - 2014

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Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maximilian Schell has received more than 2,315,188 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia. Maximilian Schell is the 218th most popular actor (up from 221st in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 101st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Actor.

Maximilian Schell is most famous for his role in the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg" where he played the part of Hans Rolfe.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Maximilian Schells by language

Over the past year Maximilian Schell has had the most page views in the with 331,969 views, followed by German (288,200), and Russian (53,820). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (132.05%), Simple English (94.76%), and Irish (72.25%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Maximilian Schell ranks 218 out of 13,578. Before him are Vanessa Redgrave, Mireille Darc, Julie Andrews, Michelle Pfeiffer, Peter Sellers, and James Hong. After him are Jacqueline Bisset, John Hurt, Laura Antonelli, Kim Basinger, Natalie Wood, and Jessica Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Maximilian Schell ranks 26. Before him are Gene Hackman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Tu Youyou, Richard Harris, and Ion Iliescu. After him are Carlos Menem, Claude Chabrol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Silvana Mangano, Harold Pinter, and Johan Galtung. Among people deceased in 2014, Maximilian Schell ranks 16. Before him are Wojciech Jaruzelski, Eli Wallach, Gough Whitlam, Hiroo Onoda, Alexander Grothendieck, and Nadine Gordimer. After him are Jacques Le Goff, Paco de Lucía, Lauren Bacall, Shirley Temple, Virna Lisi, and Alain Resnais.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Maximilian Schell ranks 93 out of 1,424. Before him are Baroness Mary Vetsera (1871), Albert II of Germany (1397), Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (1584), Engelbert Dollfuss (1892), Theodoric the Great (454), and Charles II, Archduke of Austria (1540). After him are Józef Poniatowski (1763), Milutin Milanković (1879), Fritz Pregl (1869), Heinrich Harrer (1912), Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928), and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1738).

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Among ACTORS In Austria

Among actors born in Austria, Maximilian Schell ranks 5. Before him are Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Romy Schneider (1938), Hedy Lamarr (1914), and Christoph Waltz (1956). After him are Helmut Berger (1944), Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943), Maria Schell (1926), Oskar Werner (1922), Katharina Schratt (1853), Senta Berger (1941), and Lotte Lenya (1898).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Black Hole
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.
Dec 18o 19795.9 / 10
Deep Impact
Jason Lerner
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
May 8o 19986.218 / 10
Vampires
Cardinal Alba
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Oct 30o 19986.31 / 10