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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-01-15 (99 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Maria Schell

Biography:

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926, Vienna – 26 April 2005, Preitenegg, Carinthia) was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise.

The daughter of a Swiss author and an Austrian actress, she was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell, and lesser-known actors Carl Schell and Immy (Immaculata) Schell.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

2021

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood as Herself (archive footage)

2012

2002

My Sister Maria as Herself

1998

Lebensläufe as Self

1995

1994

1993

Maria des Eaux-Vives as Sœur Maria

1988

1987

Die glückliche Familie as Maria Behringer
Seitenblicke as self

1986

1985

Nineteen Nineteen as Sophie Rubin

1984

1983

Der Trauschein as Ella Brozowsky

1982

The Passerby as Anna Helwig
Frau Jenny Treibel as Jenny Treibel
Der Besuch der alten Dame as Claire Zachanassian
Krimistunde as Elsa

1981

Das Traumschiff as Anette

1980

Der Thronfolger as Königin Sophia Dorothea
The Martian Chronicles as Anna Lustig
Heut' abend as Self

1979

Die erste Polka as Valeska Piontek
Der Wald as Gurmyszkaja
Moral as Lina Beermann
Die Pyramide as Self

1978

Superman as Vond-Ah
Just a Gigolo as Pauls Mutti Frau von Przygodski
Teerosen as Bella
Spiel der Verlierer as Anna Friedrichs

1977

1976

The Twist as Gretel
Die Heiratsvermittlerin as Mrs. Dolly Levi
Voyage of the Damned as Frau Miriam Hauser
So oder so ist das Leben as Katja Crohnen

1975

Change as Mama

1974

The Odessa File as Frau Miller
Die Kurpfuscherin as Amalie Hohenstern
Der kleine Doktor as Ernestine
Derrick as Erika Rabes
Derrick as Luisa van Doom

1973

Immobilien as Louise Strothmann
Kojak as Sister Lepar Angelica / Princess Viva Dushan
Klimbim as Self

1972

Dust in the Sun as Gertie Bradford
Marie as Mutter
Assignment: Vienna as Elga Compani

1971

Dalli Dalli as Self - Candidate

1970

The Bloody Judge as Mother Rosa
The Provocation as Jeanne
Scene of the Crime as Evelyn Stürznickel
Scene of the Crime as Äbtissin
Treffpunkte as Self

1969

99 Women as Leonie Caroll
The Devil by the Tail as La comtesse Diane
Die ungarische Hochzeit as Kaiserin Maria Theresia
Der Kommissar as Irene Pauli
Der Kommissar as Frau Pajak
Der Kommissar as Erna Gutmann

1965

1964

1963

L'assassin connaît la musique as Agnès Duvillard, la première veuve

1962

Only a Woman as Lilli König

1961

The Mark as Ruth Leighton
Das Riesenrad as Elisabeth von Hill

1960

Cimarron as Sabra Cravat

1959

The Hanging Tree as Elizabeth Mahler

1958

End of Desire as Jeanne Dandieu

1957

Le Notti Bianche as Natalia
Rose Bernd as Rose Bernd

1956

Liebe as Anna Ballard
Gervaise as Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse
Playhouse 90 as Maria

1955

Napoleon as Marie-Louise d'Autriche
The Rats as Pauline Karka
Master Over Life and Death as Barbara Bertram
What Am I? as Self

1954

The Last Bridge as Dr. Helga Reinbeck

1953

Dreaming Lips as Elisabeth
Tagebuch einer Verliebten as Barbara Holzmann

1952

The Magic Box as Helena Friese-Greene
So Little Time as Nicole de Malvines

1951

Dr. Holl as Angelika Alberti

1950

Es kommt ein Tag as Madeleine
Maresi as Blanka von Steinville
What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest

1949

1948

BAMBI Awards as Self (archive footage)
BAMBI Awards as Self
BAMBI Awards as Self - Laudation

1942

Steibruch as Meiti / Gretl