Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; April 10, 1929 – March 8, 2020) was a Swedish actor. He also held French citizenship since 2002. He starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He performed in films filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish.
Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic shot of his career in the scene where he plays chess with Death), Jesus in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkin's The Exorcist, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, and Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon.
He was twice nominated for the Academy Award - Best Leading Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).
Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic shot of his career in the scene where he plays chess with Death), Jesus in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkin's The Exorcist, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, and Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon.
He was twice nominated for the Academy Award - Best Leading Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).
Known for
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Echoes of the Past
Kursk
Behind the Scenes of Såsom i en spegel (Through a Glass Darkly)
Tuschinski's Dream
Max von Sydow
The First, the Last
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Letters
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Branded
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Game of Thrones
The Last Norwegian Troll
Robin Hood
Shutter Island
The Wolfman
Behind the Moomins
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Solomon Kane
A Man and His Dog
Emotional Arithmetic
Rush Hour 3
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Final Inquiry
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
The Tudors
Heidi
Ring of the Nibelungs
Ring of the Nibelungs
Hidden Children
Minority Report
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
Intacto
Druids
Sleepless
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Light Keeps Me Company
Nuremberg
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Snow Falling on Cedars
What Dreams May Come
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Professione fantasma
Solomon
La principessa e il povero
Hostile Waters
Their Frozen Dream
Private Confessions
Samson and Delilah
Jerusalem
Hamsun
Delblanc
Radetzky March
Stjärnbilder
Judge Dredd
The Atlantic
Citizen X
Depth Solitude
Onkel Vanja
A che punto è la notte
Time is Money
A che punto è la notte
Minns ni?
Needful Things
Morfars resa
Och ge oss skuggorna
The Silent Touch
The Best Intentions
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
The Ox
Until the End of the World
Europa
A Kiss Before Dying
Awakenings
Father
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Cellini: A Violent Life
The Bachelor
The Simpsons
Red King, White Knight
Ghostbusters II
Katinka
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Pelle the Conqueror
The Second Victory
Duet for One
The Wolf at the Door
Gösta Berlings saga
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Repenter
Code Name: Emerald
Christopher Columbus
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Quo Vadis?
The Last Place on Earth
Kojak: The Belarus File
The Fascination
Dune
Le dernier civil
Terror in the Aisles
Dreamscape
Samson and Delilah
The Soldier's Tale
Never Say Never Again
Strange Brew
Circle of Passions
Target Eagle
The Flight of the Eagle
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
Conan the Barbarian
Let Poland Be Poland
She Dances Alone
Venetian Lies
Escape to Victory
Flash Gordon
Death Watch
Hurricane
Brass Target
Black Journal
March or Die
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Voyage of the Damned
The Desert of the Tartars
Foxtrot
Illustrious Corpses
Heart of a Dog
The Ultimate Warrior
Three Days of the Condor
The Broken Mirror
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Steppenwolf
The Exorcist
Ingmar Bergman
Embassy
The New Land
The Apple War
The Touch
The Emigrants
The Night Visitor
The Kremlin Letter
The Passion of Anna
Shame
Black Palm Trees
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Hour of the Wolf
The Diary of Anne Frank
Here Is Your Life
The Quiller Memorandum
Hawaii
The Reward
The Greatest Story Ever Told
4 x 4
Interlude in the Marshland
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Winter Light
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Mistress
Through a Glass Darkly
The Wedding Day
The Virgin Spring
The Magician
Rabies
Spion 503
Brink of Life
The Minister of Uddarbo
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
The Seventh Seal
The Right to Love
Ingen mans kvinna
Miss Julie
Only a Mother