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Posted February 02, 2014 06:00 · last edited February 02, 2014 06:03

Maximilian Schell - Guys of a certain age on here will know this actor because he was always the civilized German in many films, he gave a different perspective on the usual Stero-type of the German soldier, he gave them humanity. You always felt he wanted to be lying on a beach or with his family rather than fighting the "damn war', but he was a professional.  He was in some great films but the best are for me:

Cross of Iron

A Bridge too Far 


I got you Schell you always added depth to a role. Ahh I can see you causally waving around a Luger or grabbing a Schmeisser facing certain death in a bunker with dust in your hair and blood on your cheek.




Edit - it was always best watching a 'war" movie when the baddies were proper "Germans".

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ForteanTimes edited February 02, 2014 06:03

Maximilian Schell - Guys of a certain age on here will know this actor because he was always the civilized German in many films, he gave a different perspective on the usual Stero-type of the German soldier, he gave them humanity. You always felt he wanted to be lying on a beach or with his family rather than fighting the "damn war', but he was a professional.  He was in some great films but the best are for me:

Cross of Iron

A Bridge too Far 


I got you Schell you always added depth to a role. Ahh I can see you causally waving around a Luger or grabbing a Schmeisser facing certain death in a bunker with dust in your hair and blood on your cheek.