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.
Awards & recognition
- Volpi Cup — Best Actress · 1956
- Cannes Film Festival Award — Best Actress · 1954
- Austrian Decoration — Science and Art
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Filmography18 titles
White Nights
Superman
Kojak
The Angel with the Trumpet
What's My Line?
My Sister Maria
The Hanging Tree
The Odessa File
The Brothers Karamazov
The Mark
Scene of the Crime
Cimarron
Christmas Lilies of the Field
Voyage of the Damned
99 Women
Samson and Delilah
The Bloody Judge
Just a Gigolo