Oscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell dies at 83

AP via SFGate.com ^ | February 1, 2014

[EveningStar]

Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in "Judgment at Nuremberg," has died. He was 83.

[Rummyfan]

He was great in both Cross of Iron and A Bridge Too Far. He probably would not want to be remembered chiefly for playing Nazi officers. Actually met him very briefly in a hotel lobby in Berlin once. He was very pleasant.

[PLMerite]

No, he was Hauptmann Stransky, the one to whom James Coburn said, "come with me, I'll show you where the Iron Crosses grow."

[Rummyfan]

Supposedly Cagney hated Buccholtz and their relationship during the making of One, Two, Three was a big reason it was the last movie he ever did! till Ragtime almost 30 years later.

[fso301]

No, he was Hauptmann Stransky, the one to whom James Coburn said, "come with me, I'll show you where the Iron Crosses grow."

I never realized that until today.

[DemforBush]

One of the truly great presences on stage and screen. RIP.

[Utah Binger]

Just a little something for your “gee whiz file”.

“2001-07-19 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco — Mark Hoffman, a San Francisco art dealer who owned one of the city’s oldest art galleries, died at his home in Oakland on Saturday after a long fight with cancer. He was 82.

Born in Canada’s Saskatchewan province in 1918, Mr. Hoffman moved to San Francisco in 1923. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army and was captain of the 276th Engineer Combat Battalion. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his service at Remagen, Germany.

Fifty years later, The Chronicle’s Herb Caen immortalized Mr. Hoffman’s wartime experiences at Remagen in his column. Allied forces were at the Rhine trying to push into the German heartland — if they could find a bridge that was still standing. Mr. Hoffman was commanding the engineers’ unit that was guarding the only intact bridge, the Ludendorff Railroad Bridge at Remagen, where Allied forces crossed without casualties.

Had the Allies not been able to secure that bridge, thousands of lives probably would have been lost. “

[dfwgator]

I remember hearing several times, incorrectly, that Schell portrayed “The Most Interesting Man in the World” in the Dos Equis commercials.

Not true of course, but I think the confusion was understandable.

[oh8eleven]

... some one of the finest moments ever put on film.
Couldn't agree more. If they did a remake today, we'd get these two schmucks ...

[IronJack]

He hasn't been very active of late, but I've always thought of him as the quintessential German SS officer.

Another classic actor rings down the curtain ...

[wku man]

My favorite war movie, and in my Top 5 movies of all time. RIP, Max.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Cyman]

RIP Larry London

[Dogfaced Soldier]

When I was in a combat engineer battalion in Germany, each month we gave the Carl Friesenhahn award to the officer who had screwed up the most that momth. It was named after Cpt Carl Friesenhahn who was the German officer responsible for blowing up the Remagen bridge

[Riley]

He’s going to have a feed failure if he keeps torquing that magazine back like that, and probably at the most embarrassing possible time. :-)

Only thing wrong with that movie was the sound- every single round fired sounded as if it was ricocheting off of rocks.

[dfwgator]

Did a good job portraying Lenin in the movie “Stalin”.

[Nowhere Man]

I liked him in The Black Hole.

[43north]

He certainly went out with a bang in that film following Sgt. Steiner into the Russian guns.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Enjoyed his work. RIP.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I disagree. That was the first film I saw him in as a little kid, and he was mighty scary to me.

[skinkinthegrass]

I'm 50+..i was unimpressed w/ the $fx, but that was after
Empire strikes back ('79?); i guessed it lapped over to actors.

[re_nortex]

Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg

My "vast" collection of DVDs probably numbers at most 20. There's too much quality time spent here on FR to bother with the flotsam and jetsam excreted from Hollyweird. But among my collection of what I consider worthwhile viewing are such films as "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago", "Goodfellas", "Tender Mercies" and "Citizen Kane" is Judgment at Nuremberg. It's just about to go into the player...so goodnight all!