Max von Sydow
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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).
Known for
Credits
Shutter Island (2010)
as Dr. Naehring
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
as Lor San Tekka
The Exorcist (1973)
as Father Lankester Merrin
Dune (1984)
as Doctor Kynes
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
as King Osric
Minority Report (2002)
as Director Lamar Burgess
Robin Hood (2010)
as Sir Walter Loxley
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
as Varden Reynard
Ghostbusters II (1989)
as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Judge Dredd (1995)
as Chief Justice Fargo
The Seventh Seal (1957)
as Antonius Block
Awakenings (1990)
as Peter Ingham
What Dreams May Come (1998)
as The Tracker
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
as G. Joubert
Solomon Kane (2009)
as Josiah Kane
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
as Father Lankester Merrin
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
as Frederick
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
as The Renter
Escape to Victory (1981)
as Major Karl von Steiner
Kursk (2018)
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Flash Gordon (1980)
as The Emperor Ming
Needful Things (1993)
as Leland Gaunt
Citizen X (1995)
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Wild Strawberries (1957)
as Åkerman
Dreamscape (1984)
as Paul Novotny
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
as Papinou
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
as Jesus
Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)
as Eyvind
Until the End of the World (1991)
as Henry Farber
Strange Brew (1983)
as Brewmeister Smith
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
as Captain Schroeder
Shame (1968)
as Jan Rosenberg
Europa (1991)
as Narrator (voice)
A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
as Thor Carlsson
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
as Nels Gudmundsson
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
as Johan Borg
The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
as Baron
The Magician (1958)
as Albert Emanuel Vogler
Black Journal (1977)
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Winter Light (1963)
as Jonas Persson
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
as Oktober
The Virgin Spring (1960)
as Töre
Lumière & Company (1995)
as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
March or Die (1977)
as François Marneau
Branded (2012)
as Marketing Guru
Intacto (2001)
as Samuel
The Final Inquiry (2007)
as Tiberius
Hostile Waters (1997)
as Admiral Chernavin
Heidi (2005)
as Uncle Alp
Solomon (1997)
as Davide
I Am Divine (2014)
as Self (archive)
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
as August Strindberg
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
as Colonel Kosnov
The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
as Salomon August Andrée
Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
as Le docteur Dusseldorf
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
as Martin
Sleepless (2001)
as Moretti
The Resurrection of Christ (2026)
Actor
Hawaii (1966)
as Abner Hale
The Letters (2014)
as Celeste van Exem
Ingmar Bergman (1972)
as Self
Cellini: A Violent Life (1990)
as Pope Clement VII
The Emigrants (1971)
as Karl Oskar
Code Name: Emerald (1985)
as Jürgen Brausch
A Man and His Dog (2009)
as Le commandant
Death Watch (1980)
as Gerald Mortenhoe
Duet for One (1986)
as Dr. Louis Feldman
The Atlantic (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
Druids (2001)
as Guttuart
The Passion of Anna (1969)
as Andreas Winkelman
Brass Target (1978)
as Shelley Martin Webber
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as Cap. Ortiz
The First, the Last (2016)
as Le croque-mort
Miss Julie (1951)
as Groom
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid (2000)
as Freud
Black Palm Trees (1968)
as Gustav Olofsson
Samson and Delilah (1984)
as Sidka
Their Frozen Dream (1997)
as S.A. Andrée (voice)
The Best Intentions (1992)
as Johan Åkerblom
Depth Solitude (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute (1974)
as Self (archive footage)
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' (2000)
as Self
The Night Visitor (1971)
as Salem
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
as Supreme Court President
The Apple War (1971)
as Roy Lindberg
Echoes of the Past (2021)
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
The New Land (1972)
as Karl Oskar
Rabies (1958)
as Bo Stensson Svenningson
Heart of a Dog (1976)
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
Brink of Life (1958)
as Harry Andersson
The Broken Mirror (1975)
as Matthew Lawrence
The Minister of Uddarbo (1957)
as Gustaf Ömark
The Diary of Anne Frank (1967)
as Otto Frank
Delblanc (1996)
as Narrator (voice)
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman (1968)
as Self
Starring Sigmund Freud (2012)
Actor
The Reward (1965)
as Scott Swenson
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story (1975)
as The Father
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist (1998)
as Self - Father Merrin
Here Is Your Life (1966)
as Smålands-Pelle
Only a Mother (1949)
as Nils
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957)
as Hunter
The Touch (1971)
as Andreas Vergerus
Foxtrot (1976)
as Larsen
Hidden Children (2004)
as Valobra
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern (1988)
as Voice
The Princess and the Pauper (1997)
as Epos
Red King, White Knight (1989)
as Szaz
Behind the Moomins (2010)
as Narrator (voice)
Tuschinski's Dream (2017)
Actor
Circle of Passions (1983)
as Carlo di Vilalfratti
The Ox (1991)
as Vicar
Emotional Arithmetic (2008)
as Jakob Bronski
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)
as Self
Interlude in the Marshland (1965)
as Alex Kvist
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde (2011)
as Self
Hurricane (1979)
as Dr. Danielsson
The Bachelor (1990)
as Von Schleheim
Jerusalem (1996)
as Vicar
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
The Repenter (1985)
as Spinola
Time is Money (1994)
as Joe Kaufman
Target Eagle (1982)
as Coronel O'Donnell
Dance Around the Guldbaggen (1964)
as Self
The Right to Love (1956)
as Bergman
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990)
as Father Siemes
Hamsun (1996)
as Knut Hamsun
Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1962)
as The Father
Private Confessions (1996)
as Jacob
No Man's Woman (1953)
as Olof
The Soldier's Tale (1984)
as The Devil (voice)
Let Poland Be Poland (1982)
as Self - Co-Host
Onkel Vanja (1994)
as The Professor
The Last Norwegian Troll (2010)
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
Och ge oss skuggorna (1993)
as Eugene O'Neill
Steppenwolf (1974)
as Harry Haller
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer (1982)
Actor
The Mistress (1962)
as The Man
Max von Sydow (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
The Second Victory (1987)
as Dr. Huber
The Human Factor (1988)
Actor
Light Keeps Me Company (2000)
as Self
Minns ni? (1993)
as (archive footage)
Destination Dune (1983)
as Self
Kojak: The Belarus File (1985)
as Peter Barak
Stjärnbilder (1995)
as (archive footage)
Embassy (1972)
as Gorenko
East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1991)
as Narrator (voice)
Palme (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
She Dances Alone (1981)
as Nijinsky (voice)
The Silent Touch (1992)
as Henry Kesdi
Father (1990)
as Joe Mueller
Venetian Lies (1981)
as Marcello Herrighe
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter (2012)
as Self
Spion 503 (1958)
as Horst, Gestapo-mand
Morfars resa (1993)
as Simon S.L. Fromm
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures (2013)
as Dr. Alistair Conis
Le dernier civil (1984)
as Gérard Bauerle
The Wedding Day (1960)
as Anders Frost
Made in Sweden (1969)
as Magnus Rud
A Look at Liv (1979)
as Self
Anders Zorn - Med egna ord (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood (1989)
as Self
4 x 4 (1965)
as Kvist