He died in Turin, Italy in 1952. The 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" features Schellenberg's character played by Oleg Tabakov, who in real life bore a strong physical resemblance to him. Schellenberg's niece, who resided in East Germany at the time, even wrote a letter to Tabakov appreciating his work. Schellenberg is a major character in Philip Kerr's 2005 alternate history novel of the Tehran Conference, "Hitler's Peace". Schellenberg is a central character in Jack Higgins' novel "The Eagle Has Flown", his 1991 follow-up to "The Eagle Has Landed" (1975).