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