Maximilian Schell. Photo: PAAustrian actor Maximilian Schell, who won the best actor Oscar in the early 1960s for his role in the drama Judgment at Nuremberg, has died at the age of 83.
Mr Schell’s agent Patricia Baumbauer said that he died overnight yesterday at a hospital in Innsbruck following a “sudden and serious illness”, according to the Austria Press Agency.
Mr Schell, who was born in Vienna, won his Oscar in 1961 and later was honoured with further Oscar nominations – in the best actor category for The Man in the Glass Booth in 1975, and for best supporting actor in Julia in 1977.
Born to a Swiss writer and an Austrian actress, he was the younger brother of Maria Schell, an icon of the German-speaking film world, who died in 2005.