Oscar winning actor dies at 83
Austrian actor Maximilian Schell, who won the best actor Oscar in the early 1960s for his portrayal of a defense attorney in the drama 'Judgment at Nuremberg,' has died. He was 83.
Schell's agent Patricia Baumbauer said Saturday that Schell died overnight at a hospital in Innsbruck following a 'sudden and serious illness,' the Austria Press Agency reported.
The Vienna-born Schell won his Oscar in 1961 and later was honored with further Oscar nominations - in the best actor category for 'The Man in the Glass Booth' in 1975, and for best supporting actor in 'Julia' in 1977.
Born to a Swiss writer and an Austrian actress, he was the younger brother of Maria Schell, an icon of the German-speaking film world, who died in 2005.
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