Cast
Max von Sydow
Acting
Cast
Max von Sydow
Known for
Acting
Born
1929-04-10
From
Lund, SkÄne lÀn, Sweden
Died
2020-03-08
Also known as Max Carl Adolf von Sydow, Max Von Sydow, ĐĐ°ĐșŃ ŃĐŸĐœ ĐĄŃĐŽĐŸĐČ
Biography
Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; April 10, 1929 â 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).
Shutter Island
as Dr. Naehring
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Lor San Tekka
The Exorcist
as Father Lankester Merrin
Minority Report
as Director Lamar Burgess
Rush Hour 3
as Varden Reynard
Ghostbusters II
as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Dune
as Doctor Kynes
Robin Hood
as Sir Walter Loxley
Conan the Barbarian
as King Osric
Judge Dredd
as Chief Justice Fargo
Solomon Kane
as Josiah Kane
The Seventh Seal
as Antonius Block
Three Days of the Condor
as G. Joubert
Never Say Never Again
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Awakenings
as Peter Ingham
What Dreams May Come
as The Tracker
Flash Gordon
as The Emperor Ming
Wild Strawberries
as Ă kerman
Kursk
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Needful Things
as Leland Gaunt
Escape to Victory
as Major Karl von Steiner
Dreamscape
as Paul Novotny
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as The Renter
Ring of the Nibelungs
as Eyvind
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Jesus
Citizen X
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Frederick
Intacto
as Samuel
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Father Lankester Merrin
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Nels Gudmundsson
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Papinou
The Passion of Anna
as Andreas Winkelman
Brass Target
as Shelley Martin Webber
Europa
as Narrator (voice)
Until the End of the World
as Henry Farber
The Magician
as Albert Emanuel Vogler
Hostile Waters
as Admiral Chernavin
A Kiss Before Dying
as Thor Carlsson
March or Die
as François Marneau
Voyage of the Damned
as Captain Schroeder
The Emigrants
as Karl Oskar
The Virgin Spring
as Töre
Brink of Life
as Harry Andersson
Solomon
as Davide
Death Watch
as Gerald Mortenhoe
Shame
as Jan Rosenberg
Embassy
as Gorenko
Branded
as Marketing Guru
The Desert of the Tartars
as Cap. Ortiz
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
as Le docteur Dusseldorf
LumiĂšre & Company
as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Hawaii
as Abner Hale
Morfars resa
as Simon S.L. Fromm
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
as Freud
The Touch
as Andreas Vergerus
The Ox
as Vicar
Heidi
as Uncle Alp
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
Spion 503
as Horst, Gestapo-mand
Strange Brew
as Brewmeister Smith
Illustrious Corpses
as Supreme Court President
Winter Light
as Jonas Persson
The Reward
as Scott Swenson
The Best Intentions
as Johan Ă kerblom
Hurricane
as Dr. Danielsson
Hour of the Wolf
as Johan Borg
The Wolf at the Door
as August Strindberg
Druids
as Guttuart
The New Land
as Karl Oskar
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Pope Clement VII
Steppenwolf
as Harry Haller
Palme
as Self (archive footage)
Onkel Vanja
as The Professor
Emotional Arithmetic
as Jakob Bronski
I Am Divine
as Self (archive)
Foxtrot
as Larsen
Code Name: Emerald
as JĂŒrgen Brausch
Through a Glass Darkly
as Martin
The Apple War
as Roy Lindberg
Black Journal
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Pelle the Conqueror
as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
as Father Siemes
The Kremlin Letter
as Colonel Kosnov
The Final Inquiry
as Tiberius
Red King, White Knight
as Szaz
Duet for One
as Dr. Louis Feldman
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
as Self - Father Merrin
The Princess and the Pauper
as Epos
The Letters
as Celeste van Exem
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
Hamsun
as Knut Hamsun
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
as Self (archive footage)
The Quiller Memorandum
as Oktober
Belmondo, il Ă©tait une fois le beau monde
as Self
The Ultimate Warrior
as Baron
The Repenter
as Spinola
Destination Dune
as Self
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
as The Father
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
as The Father
StjÀrnbilder
as (archive footage)
Here Is Your Life
as SmÄlands-Pelle
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
as Self
Sleepless
as Moretti
Miss Julie
as Groom
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
The Flight of the Eagle
as Salomon August Andrée
The Second Victory
as Dr. Huber
Starring Sigmund Freud
The Atlantic
as Narrator (voice)
Heart of a Dog
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
Samson and Delilah
as Sidka
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
as Self
Kojak: The Belarus File
as Peter Barak
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self - Co-Host
The Right to Love
as Bergman
Echoes of the Past
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Private Confessions
as Jacob
Rabies
as Bo Stensson Svenningson
Hidden Children
as Valobra
The Bachelor
as Von Schleheim
A Man and His Dog
as Le commandant
Venetian Lies
as Marcello Herrighe
The First, the Last
as Le croque-mort
The Resurrection of Christ
Jerusalem
as Vicar
Behind the Moomins
as Narrator (voice)
Target Eagle
as Coronel O'Donnell
The Night Visitor
as Salem
Their Frozen Dream
as S.A. Andrée (voice)
The Mistress
as The Man
Interlude in the Marshland
as Alex Kvist
Time is Money
as Joe Kaufman
A Look at Liv
as Self
Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
as Self
The Last Norwegian Troll
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
Father
as Joe Mueller
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
as Hunter
Made in Sweden
as Magnus Rud
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
as Self
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
as Self
Circle of Passions
as Carlo di Vilalfratti
Only a Mother
as Nils
The Silent Touch
as Henry Kesdi
Ingmar Bergman
as Self
Delblanc
as Narrator (voice)
Le dernier civil
as GĂ©rard Bauerle
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
as Dr. Alistair Conis
Black Palm Trees
as Gustav Olofsson
She Dances Alone
as Nijinsky (voice)
Och ge oss skuggorna
as Eugene O'Neill
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
The Soldier's Tale
as The Devil (voice)
The Minister of Uddarbo
as Gustaf Ămark
The Wedding Day
as Anders Frost
No Man's Woman
as Olof
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
as Voice
4 x 4
as Kvist
The Broken Mirror
as Matthew Lawrence
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
as Narrator (voice)
Depth Solitude
as Narrator (voice)
Max von Sydow
as Self (archive footage)
Tuschinski's Dream
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)