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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.
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Maria Schell Biography / Wiki
Name | Maria Schell |
Also Know | Maria Margarethe Anna Schell , ÐœÐ°Ñ€Ð¸Ñ Ð¨ÐµÐ»Ð» |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
Date of Birth | 1926-01-15 |
Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
Deathday | 2005-04-26 |
Maria Schell Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
99 Women | Leonie Caroll | 1969-03-05 | Jesus Franco’s campy women’s prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionall… |
Le Notti Bianche | Natalia | 1957-11-14 | A lonely city transplant and a sheltered girl, haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that qui… |
Gervaise | Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse | 1956-09-05 | An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal wi… |
The Last Bridge | Dr. Helga Reinbeck | 1954-02-11 | A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II…. |
L’assassin connaît la musique | Agnès Duvillard | 1963-10-16 | Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that’s what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can’t complete his unfinished symphony… |
The Mark | Ruth Leighton | 1961-06-08 | A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist…. |
My Sister Maria | Herself | 2002-03-01 | Maximilian Schell’s portrait of his sister Maria…. |
Rose Bernd | Rose Bernd | 1957-01-31 | West Germany’s entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Hauptman play Rose Bernd. The title character, played b… |
Until we meet again | Pamela | 1952-10-06 | This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer…. |
As Long as You’re Near Me | Eva Berger | 1953-08-26 | As Long as You’re Near Me (German: Solange Du da bist) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Harald Braun. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes … |
Die erste Polka | Valeska Piontek | 1979-02-28 | The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in… |
Das Riesenrad | Elisabeth von Hill | 1961-08-25 | … |
Die Pfarrhauskomödie | Irma | 1972-09-25 | … |
Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa | Beate Dehn | 1963-12-20 | … |
Dust in the Sun | Gertie Bradford | 1972-06-09 | In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother and then marries his brother’s widow, Gertie. Gertie’s son, H… |
Only a Woman | Lilli König | 1962-11-30 | A psychotherapist’s love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself in her patients love life add more complications…. |
Frau Jenny Treibel | Jenny Treibel | 1982-12-14 | … |
Die ungarische Hochzeit | Kaiserin Maria Theresia | 1969-01-01 | … |
Master Over Life and Death | Barbara Bertram | 1955-01-07 | … |
Immobilien | Louise Strothmann | 1973-02-21 | … |
Die Kurpfuscherin | Amalie Hohenstern | 1974-11-02 | … |
Teerosen | Bella | 1978-07-08 | … |
Der Besuch der alten Dame | Claire Zachanassian | 1982-01-01 | … |
Der Wald | Gurmyszkaja | 1979-01-01 | … |
Marie | Mutter | 1972-01-01 | When her father dies unexpectantly, a young woman starts to get suspicious about her mother’s behaviour…. |
Tagebuch einer Verliebten | Barbara Holzmann | 1953-10-18 | In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of al… |
Dreaming Lips | Elisabeth | 1953-01-29 | … |
End of Desire | Jeanne Dandieu | 1958-09-24 | Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Ju… |
As the Sea Rages | Maria | 1959-11-10 | After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down… |
Die Ohrfeige | 1975-10-15 | Mischa Gallé’s first film was made in 1971, but not picked up and shown until 1975…. | |
So oder so ist das Leben | Katja Crohnen | 1975-01-01 | … |
Nora oder Ein Puppenheim | Nora | 1965-12-19 | … |
The Bloody Judge | Mother Rosa | 1970-02-05 | Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord C… |
The Hanging Tree | Elizabeth Mahler | 1959-02-19 | Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, rea… |
The Brothers Karamazov | Grushenka | 1958-02-20 | Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons … |
Cimarron | Sabra Cravat born Venable | 1960-12-01 | The epic story of a family that’s involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889…. |
Der Schinderhannes | Julchen | 1958-12-17 | … |
The Rats | Pauline Karka | 1955-07-06 | After the fall and before the wall…. |
So Little Time | Nicole de Malvines | 1952-04-18 | During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother…. |
Steibruch | Meiti / Gretl | 1942-01-01 | A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaug… |
Dr. Holl | Angelika Alberti | 1951-03-23 | … |
Es kommt ein Tag | Madeleine | 1950-10-16 | Melodrama set during wartime…. |
Maresi | Blanka von Steinville | 1950-06-01 | … |
Der Trauschein | Ella Brozowsky | 1983-01-01 | … |
Der Thronfolger | Königin Sophia Dorothea | 1980-08-10 | … |
Die Heiratsvermittlerin | Mrs. Dolly Levi | 1976-01-15 | … |
Christmas Lilies of the Field | Mother Maria | 1979-12-16 | Sometime after the events in ‘Lilies of the Field’ (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of … |
Nineteen Nineteen | Sophie Rubin | 1985-11-14 | Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier…. |
Moral | Lina Beermann | 1979-10-05 | … |
The Provocation | Jeanne | 1970-02-11 | … |
The Magic Box | Helena Friese-Greene | 1952-01-01 | Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i… |
The Devil by the Tail | La comtesse Diane | 1969-02-07 | In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of th… |
King Thrushbeard | Queen | 1984-12-01 | When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck t… |
Die keusche Susanne | Susanne | 1972-01-09 | … |
Inside the Third Reich | Mrs. Speer | 1982-05-09 | A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler’s young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon… |
Herbst in Lugano | Lilly | 1988-10-08 | … |
Just a Gigolo | Pauls Mutti Frau von Przygodski | 1978-11-16 | After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there’s no place for him–he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and ca… |
The Angel with the Trumpet | Anna Linden | 1950-03-19 | Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover’s suicide, Herlie jo… |
The Odessa File | Frau Miller | 1974-10-17 | After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting o… |
Change | Mama | 1975-06-06 | … |
Magyarország lángokban | Self | … | |
Die Abrechnung | Evelyn Stürznickel | … | |
The Heart of the Matter | Helen Rolt | 1953-11-03 | Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman…. |
The Angel with the Trumpet | Selma Rösner | 1948-08-19 | A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of pia… |
The Twist | Gretel | 1976-06-23 | Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble…. |
Spiel der Verlierer | Anna Friedrichs | 1978-10-12 | … |
Mothers and Daughters | Self | 2012-09-16 | Relationships between mothers and daughters are often very complex. Love and protective instincts, recognition and pride play just as important a role… |
Samson and Delilah | Deborah | 1984-03-31 | Samson and Delilah tv movie… |
Superman | Vond-Ah | 1978-12-13 | Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne… |
Die letzte Nacht | 1949-02-11 | … | |
Voyage of the Damned | Frau Miriam Hauser | 1976-12-22 | A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Germany in a desperate fight for survival…. |
Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen | Dr. Agnes Schranz | 1980-11-23 | … |
The Passerby | Anna Helwig | 1982-04-14 | During an interview, Max Baumstein, respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for… |
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Herself (archive footage) | 2021-05-03 | … |
Napoleon | Marie-Louise d’Autriche | 1955-03-25 | The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shootin… |
The Making of ‘Superman: The Movie’ | Herself | 1980-01-01 | Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner’s blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film,… |
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