Fled Austria to Switzerland

Did military service in Swiss Army; achieved rank of corporal

Began career at Basel Theater

Worked with theaters in Essen, Bonn, Lubeck, Munich and Berlin in Germany

Screen debut in "Kinder, Mutter und ein General"

Hollywood debut in "The Young Lions", directed by Edward Dmytryk (adapted by Edward Anhalt from Irwin Shaw's best-selling novel)

American stage debut in Ira Levin's "Interlock"

Acted in "Playhouse 90" (CBS) version of "Judgment at Nuremberg", directed by George Roy Hill

Won Best Actor Oscar as the defense attorney in Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg"

Played insane Nazi war criminal in Vittorio De Sica's "The Condemned of Altona"

Reteamed with Dmytryk for "The Reluctant Saint"

First film with director J Lee Thompson, "Return from the Ashes

London stage debut in premiere of John Osborne's "A Patriot for Me"

First film as producer, "Das Schloss/The Castle"; also played 'K' in the appropriately vague filmization of the Franz Kafka novel

Portrayed Herr Sessemann in NBC's superb TV-movie version of "Heidi", known primarily for pre-empting the end of an important New York Jets-Oakland Raiders football game

Reprised "A Patriot for Me" on Broadway

Directorial debut, "First Love", earned Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film; also co-produced, co-adapted (from a story by Ivan Turgenev) and acted

Helmed "The Pedestrian", also nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film; again produced, scripted and acted

Received Best Actor Oscar nomination for Arthur Hiller's "The Man in the Glass Booth", adapted by Anhalt from the Robert Shaw play

Reteamed with Thompson for "St. Ives"

Played Captain Stransky in Sam Peckinpah's only war film, "Cross of Iron"

Oscar-nominated as Best Supporting Actor for "Julia"; first film with Vanessa Redgrave

Appeared annually in Salzburg Festival productions of "Everyman"

Acted the part of Otto Frank in NBC movie version of "The Diary of Anne Frank", starring Melissa Gilbert

Starred as "The Pantom of the Opera", a CBS-movie remake

Directed "Marlene", built on the unusual foundation of his tape-recorded interview with Marlene Dietrich who refused to appear onscreen; Schell turned the liability into an asset for a fascinating film, nominated for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award

Portrayed title role in NBC's Emmy Award-winning miniseries "Peter the Great" (adapted by Anhalt from Robert Massie's book); another turn opposite Redgrave

Joined the cast of "Wiseguy" (CBS), playing wealthy businessman Amado Guzman during its last season

Played Frederick the Great to Redgrave's Empress Elizabeth in TNT miniseries "Young Catherine"

Acted in Andrew Bergman's "The Freshman"

Portrayed Lenin to Robert Duvall's "Stalin" (HBO)

Received Emmy nomination for his performance in "Miss Rose White", an NBC "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation

Directed and acted in "Candles in the Dark", a Family Channel movie; wife Natasha played the role of Marta; asked Family Channel to remove his name as director and offered to buy overseas rights with intent of recutting; the Family Channel politely declined both requests

Second feature with Redgrave, "Little Odessa"

Charged with a sex-harrassment suit by 32-year-old production executive Diana Botsford who later dropped her lawsuit, prompting Schell to say: "I feel gloriously vindicated. All I said was that she had beautiful breasts. In Europe, thank God, that is still a compliment"

Won breach-of-contract lawsuit against Wolfgang Bocksch Concerts, which had cancelled a European production of "My Fair Lady" one month ahead of schedule in 1994; in 1998, a judge would increase the initial award (nearly $406,000) by $167,000 to compensate the actor for delays in payment

Appeared as a concentration camp survivor in Jeroen Krabbe's directorial debut "Left Luggage"

Once again acted with Redgrave in Mimi Leder's "Deep Impact"

Played Catholic clergymen in both "The Eighteenth Angel" and "John Carpenter's Vampires"

Co-starred in the PBS production "The Song of the Lark" (lensed 2000)

Acted in a Broadway production of "Judgment at Nuremberg"

Directed a Los Angeles Opera production of "Lohengrin"