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