Oscar-Winning Actor Maximilian Schell Dies at 83

(VIENNA) — Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in “Judgment at Nuremberg,” has died. He was 83. Schell’s agent, Patricia Baumbauer, said Saturday he died overnight at a hospital in Innsbruck following a “sudden and serious illness,” the Austria Press Agency reported. It was only his second Hollywood role, as defense attorney Hans Rolfe in Stanley Kramer’s classic �...

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