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