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Maria Schell

Veteran Austrian actress Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was an icon of the German-speaking film world who achieved international fame before withdrawing into retirement, only to return in dozens of memorable character roles. Best known internationally for her role as the enigmatic Grushenka in Richard Brooks's 1958 movie The Brothers Karamazov, Ms. Schell starred in dozens of popular German-language films in the 1950s. She later made hundreds of television appearances, becoming an idol to the postwar generation in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Aliases
  • Gritli Schell
English
Filmography

Superman

1978
as Vond-Ah

La provocation

1970
as Jeanne

Inside the Third Reich

1982
as Mrs. Speer

Es kommt ein Tag

1950
as Madeleine

Voyage of the Damned

1976
as Frau Hauser

Kráľ Drozdia brada

1984
as Queen

The Angel with the Trumpet

1948
as Selma Rösner

The Angel with the Trumpet

1950
as Anna Linden

Tagebuch einer Verliebten

1953
as Barbara Holzmann

Die letzte Brücke

1954
as Dr. Helga Reinbeck

Dans la poussière du soleil

1972
as Gertie Bradford

Christmas Lilies of the Field

1979
as Mother Maria

Herbst in Lugano

1988
as Lilly

Die glückliche Familie

1987
as Maria Behringer

La passante du Sans-Souci

1982
as Anna Helwig

Die Kurpfuscherin

1974
as Amalie Hohenstern

The Odessa File

1974
as Frau Miller

Le Notti Bianche

1957
as Natalia

The Rats

1955
as Pauline Karka

Die keusche Susanne

1972
as Dessen keusche Gattin Susanne

Gervaise

1956
as Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse

Spiel der Verlierer

1978
as Anna Friedrichs

Die Pfarrhauskomödie

1972
as Irma

End of Desire

1958
as Jeanne Dandieu

Teerosen

1977
as Bella

As Long as You're Near Me

1953
as Eva Berger

The Mark

1961
as Ruth Leighton

Samson and Delilah

1984
as Deborah

La passion du docteur Bergh

1998
as Madame Herstäl

Der thronfolger

1980
as Königin Sophia Dorothea

Immobilien

1973
as Louise Strothmann

Die ungarische Hochzeit

1969
as Kaiserin Maria Theresia

Rose Bernd

1957
as Rose Bernd

Bis wir uns wiedersehn

1952
as Pamela

Die erste Polka

1979
as Valeska Piontek

Napoléon

1955
as Marie-Louise, l'archiduchesse d'Autriche

The Twist

1976
as Gretel

Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa

1963
as Beate Dehn

Just a Gigolo

1978
as Pauls Mutti Frau von Przygodski

Der Wald

1979
as Gurmyszkaja

My Sister Maria

2002
as Herself

Nora oder Ein Puppenheim

1965
as Nora Helmer

The Magic Box

1951
as Helena Friese-Greene

The Bloody Judge

1970
as Mother Rosa

So oder so ist das Leben

1975
as Katja Crohnen

Cimarron

1960
as Sabra Cravat born Venable

Le Diable par la queue

1969
as La comtesse Diane

The Martian Chronicles

1980
as Anna Lustig

As the Sea Rages

1959
as Maria

The Heart of the Matter

1953
as Helen Rolt

The Brothers Karamazov

1958
as Grushenka

The Hanging Tree

1959
as Elizabeth Mahler

L'assassin connaît la musique

1963
as Agnès Duvillard

Der Trauschein

1984
as Ella Brozowsky

Der Clan der Anna Voss

as Anna Voss

Frau Jenny Treibel

1982
as Jenny Treibel

Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen

1980
as Dr. Agnes Schranz

Maresi

1948
as Blanka von Steinville - Tochter

Herr über Leben und Tod

1955
as Barbara Bertram, geb. Hansen

Dr. Holl

1951
as Angelika Alberti

Der träumende Mund

1953
as Elisabeth

Steibruch

1942
as Meiti (as Gritli Schell)

99 Women

1969
as Leonie Caroll

Chamsin

as Miriam

Producer

Movie Die Pfarrhauskomödie 1972

Guest Star

Episode Assignment Vienna
So Long, Charley 		1973
Episode alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Maria Schell 		1996
Episode Klimbim
Diverse 		1976
Episode Derrick
Klavierkonzert 		1978
Episode Die Peter Alexander Show
Die Peter Alexander Show '92 		1992
Episode Kojak
The Pride and the Princess 		1976
Episode Derrick
Yellow He 		1977
Episode Das Traumschiff
Herz ist Trumpf /​ Sängerin und Zauberer /​ Bordbekanntschaften (Marrakesch) 		1983
Episode Wetten, dass..?
Wetten, dass..? aus Berlin (Funkausstellung) 		1983