Question: What country was Rod Steiger's co-star in The Chosen born in?

Context articles: The Sergeant (1968 film)
Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries)
Veronica De Laurentiis
The Naked Face (film)
End of Days (film)
The Chosen (1981 film)
John Ball (author)
Portrait of a Hitman
Maximilian Schell
Medallion Theatre

The Sergeant is a 1968 American drama film starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law, directed by John Flynn, and released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
Jesus of Nazareth (Italian: "Gesù di Nazareth" ) is a 1977 British-Italian television miniseries directed by Franco Zeffirelli and co-written by Zeffirelli, Anthony Burgess, and Suso Cecchi d'Amico which dramatises the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
 It stars Robert Powell as Jesus.
 His extraordinary acting was highly praised by critics.
 The miniseries features an all-star cast of famous American and European actors, including eight Academy Award winners: Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer (subsequent winner), Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, James Earl Jones (subsequent honorary Academy Award winner), and Peter Ustinov.
Veronica De Laurentiis (born 1950 in Rome) is an Italian author and actress.
 She is the daughter of Silvana Mangano and Dino De Laurentiis.
 At eighteen, she was cast in the film "Waterloo", starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer.
 The film was produced by her father.
 She then retired from acting following the birth of her first child, Giada De Laurentiis, in 1970.
The Naked Face is a 1984 film written and directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the book of the same name by Sidney Sheldon.
 It stars Roger Moore, Rod Steiger and Elliott Gould.
End of Days is a 1999 American fantasy action horror thriller film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, Rod Steiger, CCH Pounder, and Udo Kier.
 The film follows former New York Police Department detective Jericho Cane (Schwarzenegger) after he saves a banker (Byrne) from an assassin, finds himself embroiled in a religious conflict, and must protect an innocent young woman (Tunney) who is chosen by evil forces to conceive the Antichrist with Satan.
The Chosen is a 1981 drama film directed by Jeremy Kagan, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Chaim Potok published in 1967.
 It stars Maximilian Schell and Rod Steiger.
 It won three awards at the 1981 Montréal World Film Festival.
 It was distributed by Analysis Film Releasing Corp. and 20th Century Fox.
John Dudley Ball (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs.
 Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel "In the Heat of the Night", which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.
Portrait of a Hitman is a 1979 film directed by Allan A. Buckhantz and written by Yabo Yablonsky.
 Although the film was shot in 1977 and featured actors such as Jack Palance and Rod Steiger, it did not receive domestic distribution until 1984.
Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-born Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films.
 He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film "Judgment at Nuremberg", his second acting role in Hollywood.
 Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by acting and literature.
 While he was a child, his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled in Zurich.
 After World War II ended, Schell took up acting or directing full-time.
 He appeared in numerous German films, often anti-war, before moving on to Hollywood.
Medallion Theatre, aka Chrysler Medallion Theatre, is a 30-minute American anthology series that aired on CBS from July 11, 1953 to April 3, 1954.
 A total of thirty episodes aired live from New York.
 Henry Fonda (in the premiere telecast "The Decision of Arrowsmith"), Claude Rains, and Janet Gaynor made their major television dramatic debuts on this series in various 1953 episodes.
 Others guest stars included Helen Hayes, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, and Roddy McDowell.
 Among its writers were Rod Serling and Robert Anderson.
 Directors included Ralph Nelson, Don Medford, Robert Stevens, and Seymour Robbie.
 The producer was William Spier.