
Max von Sydow
Acting
- Born:
- 1929-04-10
- Died:
- 2020-03-08
- Place of birth:
- Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
Biography
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
Filmography

The Resurrection of Christ

Echoes of the Past

Kursk

Tuschinski's Dream

Max von Sydow

The First, the Last

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

I Am Divine

The Letters

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Starring Sigmund Freud

Palme

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
Behind the Moomins

Robin Hood

Shutter Island

Solomon Kane

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

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

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

Solomon

The Princess and the Pauper

La principessa e il povero

Hostile Waters

Their Frozen Dream

Private Confessions

Jerusalem

Hamsun

Delblanc

Radetzky March

Lumière & Company
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer

Stjärnbilder

Judge Dredd

The Atlantic

Citizen X
Anders Zorn - Med egna ord

Depth Solitude

Onkel Vanja

A che punto è la notte

Time is Money

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
East of the Sun, West of the Moon

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
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
The Human Factor

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

Dune

The Soldier's Tale

Le dernier civil

Dreamscape

Samson and Delilah

Never Say Never Again

Strange Brew

Circle of Passions

Destination Dune

Target Eagle

The Flight of the Eagle

The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer

Conan the Barbarian

Let Poland Be Poland

The Guldbagge Awards

Venetian Lies

Escape to Victory

She Dances Alone

Flash Gordon

Death Watch

Hurricane
A Look at Liv

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 Emigrants
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

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

Made in Sweden

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
Grimme Award

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

Wild Strawberries

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

The Seventh Seal

The Right to Love

No Man's Woman

Miss Julie

Only a Mother

Golden Globe Awards

The Making of the Greatest Story Ever Told