Actor Maximilian Schell Dies

Maximilian Schell, the Austrian-born actor who won an Academy Award for his performance in Judgment at Nuremberg, has died. Schell, who was 83, died Saturday in Innsbruck. The cast of Judgment at Nuremberg featured Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Montgomery Clift, but Schell was singled out for the Oscar for his portrayal of a German defense lawyer. The 1961 film about the Nazi war crimes trials following World War 2 first came to life in 1959 as an episode on the American...

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