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