Maximilian Schell, an Austrian-born actor who once was a fugitive from Hitler, has died at the age of 83. His agent, Patricia Bambauer, says that Schell died overnight on Saturday at a hospital in Innsbruck following a “sudden and serious illness.” Schell was once a fugitive from Hitler, making the role for which he won an Oscar—playing an attorney defending four Nazi judges in Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg—all the more poignant. Schell later worked as a director, notably for the 1984 Marlene Dietrich documentary, Marlene.
