Max von Sydow
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).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1929-04-10
Place of birth
Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
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Cast
Minority Report
2002
7.35
The Seventh Seal
1957
8.19
Wild Strawberries
1957
8.12
Hostile Waters
1997
5.80
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
6.00
Dune
1984
6.18
Max von Sydow
2017
10.00
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
6.40
Until the End of the World
1991
6.81
Needful Things
1993
6.20
Flash Gordon
1980
6.23
Intact
2001
6.60
Awakenings
1990
7.78
Pelle the Conqueror
1987
7.30
Ring of the Nibelungs
2004
6.20
Robin Hood
2010
6.39
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
7.51
Rush Hour 3
2007
6.48
Shutter Island
2010
8.20
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
4.53
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
1964
0.00
Through a Glass Darkly
1961
7.80
Dreamscape
1984
6.10
A Look at Liv
1979
0.00
The Virgin Spring
1960
7.80
The Final Inquiry
2007
4.70
Three Days of the Condor
1975
7.28
A Kiss Before Dying
1991
5.60
The Ultimate Warrior
1975
5.80
What Dreams May Come
1998
7.20
March or Die
1977
5.80
Citizen X
1995
7.20
Europa
1991
7.30
Judge Dredd
1995
5.80
Shame
1968
7.50
The Exorcist
1973
7.73
Druids
2001
3.00
Strange Brew
1983
6.06
Conan the Barbarian
1982
6.81
Solomon Kane
2009
6.02
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
5.40
The Emigrants
1971
7.50
A Man and His Dog
2009
5.90
The Best Intentions
1992
7.10
The Magician
1958
7.40
Winter Light
1963
7.90
Never Say Never Again
1983
6.05
Tuschinski's Dream
2017
0.00
The New Land
1972
7.70
The Passion of Anna
1969
7.50
Hawaii
1966
6.40
Brink of Life
1958
7.50
Heidi
2005
7.60
Illustrious Corpses
1976
6.80
The Fascination
1985
0.00
Minns ni?
1993
0.00
Private Confessions
1996
6.20
The Kremlin Letter
1970
6.10
The Apple War
1971
6.00
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
5.70
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
6.80
Sleepless
2001
6.10
Miss Julie
1951
6.50
Escape to Victory
1981
6.90
Hour of the Wolf
1968
7.42
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009
6.50
Delblanc
1996
0.00
Duet for One
1986
5.80
The Night Visitor
1971
6.30
Brass Target
1978
5.60
The Flight of the Eagle
1982
7.00
Light Keeps Me Company
2000
7.80
Steppenwolf
1974
6.00
Code Name: Emerald
1985
6.50
Hidden Children
2004
5.90
Voyage of the Damned
1976
5.90
Och ge oss skuggorna
1993
9.00
Black Journal
1977
5.40
Solomon
1997
6.60
Hamsun
1996
7.20
Heart of a Dog
1976
6.20
Ghostbusters II
1989
6.58
The Touch
1971
6.20
The Reward
1965
5.70
The Soldier's Tale
1984
6.40
Depth Solitude
1995
5.80
Branded
2012
4.80
Foxtrot
1976
4.70
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
1975
6.00
The Bachelor
1990
0.00
The Wolf at the Door
1986
5.20
The Silent Touch
1992
5.00
Only a Mother
1949
6.90
The Mistress
1962
6.00
Jerusalem
1996
7.20
Target Eagle
1982
4.90
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
7.26
Father
1990
5.60
Red King, White Knight
1989
5.70
The Right to Love
1956
4.80
Ingen mans kvinna
1953
4.00
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1962
5.70
Stjärnbilder
1995
0.00
Samson and Delilah
1984
4.90
Here Is Your Life
1966
7.10
The Ox
1991
6.60
Black Palm Trees
1968
5.50
Venetian Lies
1981
5.17
Interlude in the Marshland
1965
7.40
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
0.00
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
1957
5.60
Spion 503
1958
4.00
The Letters
2014
5.50
The Second Victory
1987
6.30
Hurricane
1979
4.70
The First, the Last
2016
6.50
Rabies
1958
7.50
The Human Factor
1988
0.00
Le dernier civil
1984
0.00
Their Frozen Dream
1997
5.86
She Dances Alone
1981
0.00
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
6.00
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
0.00
Kojak: The Belarus File
1985
6.00
Made in Sweden
1969
0.00
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
1982
5.80
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990
5.80
Kursk
2018
6.66
The Repenter
1985
6.10
4 x 4
1965
7.20
The Princess and the Pauper
1997
6.30
The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
6.00
Morfars resa
1993
0.00
Onkel Vanja
1994
0.00
The Last Norwegian Troll
2010
6.70
The Atlantic
1995
6.00
Ingmar Bergman
1972
6.20
Embassy
1972
5.00
The Wolfman
2010
5.87
Circle of Passions
1983
3.00
The Wedding Day
1960
0.00
Behind the Moomins
2010
0.00
Death Watch
1980
6.32
Time is Money
1994
7.00
The Broken Mirror
1975
8.00
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
1989
0.00
Samson and Delilah
1996
6.50
Echoes of the Past
2021
6.60
The Minister of Uddarbo
1957
0.00
Destination Dune
1983
5.00
Palme
2012
7.64