Cast
Max von Sydow
Acting
Cast
Max von Sydow
Known for
Acting
Born
1929-04-10
From
Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
Died
2020-03-08
Also known as Max Carl Adolf von Sydow, Max Von Sydow, Макс фон Сюдов
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).
★8.2
MOVIE2010
Shutter Island
as Dr. Naehring
★7.2
MOVIE2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Lor San Tekka
★7.7
MOVIE1973
The Exorcist
as Father Lankester Merrin
★6.8
MOVIE1982
Conan the Barbarian
as King Osric
★6.2
MOVIE1984
Dune
as Doctor Kynes
★7.4
MOVIE2002
Minority Report
as Director Lamar Burgess
★6.6
MOVIE1989
Ghostbusters II
as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
★8.1
MOVIE1957
The Seventh Seal
as Antonius Block
★6.5
MOVIE2007
Rush Hour 3
as Varden Reynard
★5.9
MOVIE1995
Judge Dredd
as Chief Justice Fargo
★7.2
MOVIE1998
What Dreams May Come
as The Tracker
★6.9
MOVIE1981
Escape to Victory
as Major Karl von Steiner
★6.1
MOVIE1983
Never Say Never Again
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
★6.4
MOVIE2010
Robin Hood
as Sir Walter Loxley
★6.0
MOVIE2009
Solomon Kane
as Josiah Kane
★7.8
MOVIE1990
Awakenings
as Peter Ingham
★7.3
MOVIE1975
Three Days of the Condor
as G. Joubert
★7.5
MOVIE1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Frederick
★4.5
MOVIE1977
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Father Lankester Merrin
★6.6
MOVIE2018
Kursk
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
★4.7
MOVIE2012
Branded
as Marketing Guru
MOVIE1982
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self - Co-Host
★6.3
MOVIE1980
Flash Gordon
as The Emperor Ming
★7.0
MOVIE2011
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as The Renter
★8.1
MOVIE1957
Wild Strawberries
as Åkerman
★7.2
MOVIE1995
Citizen X
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
★6.0
MOVIE1976
Voyage of the Damned
as Captain Schroeder
★6.4
MOVIE1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Jesus
★7.3
MOVIE1958
The Magician
as Albert Emanuel Vogler
★7.5
MOVIE1968
Shame
as Jan Rosenberg
★6.3
MOVIE2004
Ring of the Nibelungs
as Eyvind
★7.6
MOVIE2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Papinou
★5.5
MOVIE1977
Black Journal
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
★6.7
MOVIE1991
Until the End of the World
as Henry Farber
★6.3
MOVIE1993
Needful Things
as Leland Gaunt
MOVIE2026
The Resurrection of Christ
★5.3
MOVIE1986
The Wolf at the Door
as August Strindberg
★7.8
MOVIE1960
The Virgin Spring
as Töre
★7.9
MOVIE1963
Winter Light
as Jonas Persson
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
as Le docteur Dusseldorf
★5.6
MOVIE1991
A Kiss Before Dying
as Thor Carlsson
★5.8
MOVIE1977
March or Die
as François Marneau
★6.8
MOVIE1997
Solomon
as Davide
★7.0
MOVIE1982
The Flight of the Eagle
as Salomon August Andrée
★6.1
MOVIE1984
Dreamscape
as Paul Novotny
★7.7
MOVIE2005
Heidi
as Uncle Alp
★5.8
MOVIE1975
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
as The Father
★7.3
MOVIE2014
I Am Divine
as Self (archive)
★6.3
MOVIE1980
Death Watch
as Gerald Mortenhoe
★7.3
MOVIE1991
Europa
as Narrator (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE1999
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Nels Gudmundsson
★8.0
MOVIE1957
The Minister of Uddarbo
as Gustaf Ömark
★6.6
MOVIE2001
Intacto
as Samuel
★6.3
MOVIE1966
Hawaii
as Abner Hale
★5.9
MOVIE1971
The Touch
as Andreas Vergerus
★7.9
MOVIE2000
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1995
Depth Solitude
as Narrator (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE1968
Hour of the Wolf
as Johan Borg
★6.5
MOVIE1971
The Night Visitor
as Salem
★6.8
MOVIE1976
Illustrious Corpses
as Supreme Court President
★6.1
MOVIE1997
Hostile Waters
as Admiral Chernavin
MOVIE2017
Tuschinski's Dream
★5.9
MOVIE1966
The Quiller Memorandum
as Oktober
★7.8
MOVIE1961
Through a Glass Darkly
as Martin
★6.5
MOVIE1995
The Atlantic
as Narrator (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE1975
The Ultimate Warrior
as Baron
★6.2
MOVIE1997
The Princess and the Pauper
as Epos
★7.2
MOVIE1965
Interlude in the Marshland
as Alex Kvist
MOVIE2010
Behind the Moomins
as Narrator (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1956
The Right to Love
as Bergman
★7.3
MOVIE1987
Pelle the Conqueror
as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
★5.4
MOVIE1990
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Pope Clement VII
★7.4
MOVIE1969
The Passion of Anna
as Andreas Winkelman
★6.3
MOVIE1990
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
as Father Siemes
★6.3
MOVIE1968
Black Palm Trees
as Gustav Olofsson
★6.2
MOVIE1972
Ingmar Bergman
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1983
Strange Brew
as Brewmeister Smith
★6.5
MOVIE2016
The First, the Last
as Le croque-mort
★6.4
MOVIE1989
Red King, White Knight
as Szaz
★7.4
MOVIE1971
The Emigrants
as Karl Oskar
★6.5
MOVIE1958
Rabies
as Bo Stensson Svenningson
★5.5
MOVIE2014
The Letters
as Celeste van Exem
★6.8
MOVIE1976
The Desert of the Tartars
as Cap. Ortiz
★10.0
MOVIE2017
Max von Sydow
as Self (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE1990
The Bachelor
as Von Schleheim
★5.8
MOVIE2009
A Man and His Dog
as Le commandant
★6.6
MOVIE1985
Code Name: Emerald
as Jürgen Brausch
★5.4
MOVIE1986
Duet for One
as Dr. Louis Feldman
★6.0
MOVIE1971
The Apple War
as Roy Lindberg
★6.1
MOVIE2001
Sleepless
as Moretti
MOVIE2012
Starring Sigmund Freud
★7.4
MOVIE1998
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
as Self - Father Merrin
★5.4
MOVIE1978
Brass Target
as Shelley Martin Webber
★5.9
MOVIE1970
The Kremlin Letter
as Colonel Kosnov
MOVIE1988
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
as Voice
★7.5
MOVIE1972
The New Land
as Karl Oskar
★6.8
MOVIE1985
Kojak: The Belarus File
as Peter Barak
★8.5
MOVIE1993
Och ge oss skuggorna
as Eugene O'Neill
★5.8
MOVIE1982
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
★4.7
MOVIE1979
Hurricane
as Dr. Danielsson
★5.9
MOVIE1976
Heart of a Dog
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
★6.6
MOVIE1951
Miss Julie
as Groom
★5.5
MOVIE1982
Target Eagle
as Coronel O'Donnell
★5.1
MOVIE1984
Samson and Delilah
as Sidka
★6.8
MOVIE2000
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
as Self
★3.2
MOVIE2001
Druids
as Guttuart
★5.8
MOVIE1957
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
as Hunter
★7.0
MOVIE1975
The Broken Mirror
as Matthew Lawrence
★5.5
MOVIE2008
Emotional Arithmetic
as Jakob Bronski
★10.0
MOVIE1981
She Dances Alone
as Nijinsky (voice)
★4.8
MOVIE1976
Foxtrot
as Larsen
MOVIE1995
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1987
The Second Victory
as Dr. Huber
★7.0
MOVIE1992
The Best Intentions
as Johan Åkerblom
★6.1
MOVIE2004
Hidden Children
as Valobra
★7.5
MOVIE1958
Brink of Life
as Harry Andersson
★6.1
MOVIE1962
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
as The Father
★4.0
MOVIE1983
Circle of Passions
as Carlo di Vilalfratti
★7.7
MOVIE1974
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
as Self (archive footage)
★4.8
MOVIE2007
The Final Inquiry
as Tiberius
★5.8
MOVIE2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
as Freud
★6.0
MOVIE2011
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1965
The Reward
as Scott Swenson
★6.3
MOVIE1995
Lumière & Company
as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
★7.0
MOVIE1994
Time is Money
as Joe Kaufman
★6.5
MOVIE1983
Destination Dune
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1960
The Wedding Day
as Anders Frost
★6.3
MOVIE1997
Their Frozen Dream
as S.A. Andrée (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1969
Made in Sweden
as Magnus Rud
★7.6
MOVIE2012
Palme
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1966
Here Is Your Life
as Smålands-Pelle
★6.7
MOVIE2010
The Last Norwegian Troll
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1990
Father
as Joe Mueller
★7.0
MOVIE1984
Le dernier civil
as Gérard Bauerle
★6.9
MOVIE1984
The Soldier's Tale
as The Devil (voice)
★5.0
MOVIE1992
The Silent Touch
as Henry Kesdi
★5.8
MOVIE1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1991
The Ox
as Vicar
MOVIE1968
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE1974
Steppenwolf
as Harry Haller
MOVIE1988
The Human Factor
★6.1
MOVIE1996
Private Confessions
as Jacob
★7.3
MOVIE1996
Jerusalem
as Vicar
★7.2
MOVIE1996
Hamsun
as Knut Hamsun
★6.3
MOVIE1985
The Repenter
as Spinola
★6.0
MOVIE1962
The Mistress
as The Man
★6.5
MOVIE2021
Echoes of the Past
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
★6.1
MOVIE1981
Venetian Lies
as Marcello Herrighe
MOVIE1991
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1964
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1972
Embassy
as Gorenko
★7.1
MOVIE1949
Only a Mother
as Nils
MOVIE1996
Delblanc
as Narrator (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1995
Stjärnbilder
as (archive footage)
MOVIE2012
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
as Self
MOVIE1993
Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
★5.7
MOVIE1958
Spion 503
as Horst, Gestapo-mand
★10.0
MOVIE1979
A Look at Liv
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1967
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
★5.5
MOVIE2013
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
as Dr. Alistair Conis
MOVIE1989
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1994
Onkel Vanja
as The Professor
★7.0
MOVIE1993
Morfars resa
as Simon S.L. Fromm
★7.3
MOVIE1965
4 x 4
as Kvist
★6.5
MOVIE1953
No Man's Woman
as Olof
MOVIE1995
Anders Zorn - Med egna ord
as Narrator (voice)