Max von Sydow
AKA: Max Carl Adolf von Sydow
Birthday: 1929-04-10
Died: 2020-03-08
Birthplace: Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
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).
Filmography
Character: Director Lamar Burgess [Pre-Crime]
Character: Antonius Block
Character: Henrik Åkerman
Character: Admiral Chernavin
Character: Nels Gudmundsson
Character: The Emperor Ming
Character: Sir Walter Loxley
Character: Varden Reynard
Character: Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
Character: Father Lankester Merrin
Character: François Marneau
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Character: Chief Justice Fargo
Character: Father Lankester Merrin
Character: Brewmeister Smith
Character: Johan Åkerblom
Character: Albert Emanuel Vogler
Character: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Character: Andreas Winkelman
Character: Harry Andersson
Character: Colonel Kosnov
Character: Major Karl von Steiner
Character: Le docteur Dusseldorf
Character: Dr. Louis Feldman
Character: Shelley Martin Webber
Character: Salomon August Andrée
Character: Jürgen Brausch
Character: Captain Schroeder
Character: Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Character: Self / Father Merrin
Character: Andreas Vergerus
Character: Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Arcivescovo di Torino
Character: August Strindberg
Character: Marketing Guru
Character: Coronel O'Donnell
Character: Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Character: Gustav Olofsson
Character: Marcello Herrighe
Character: Horst, Gestapo-mand
Character: Celeste van Exem
Character: Dr. Danielsson
Character: Le croque-mort
Character: Bo Stensson Svenningson
Character: Gérard Bauerle
Character: S.A. Andrée (voice)
Character: Nijinsky's voice
Character: Papa Clemente VII
Character: Supreme Court President
Character: Dr. Alistair Conis
Character: Simon S.L. Fromm
Character: The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
Character: Carlo di Vilalfratti
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Gerald Mortenhoe
Character: Matthew Lawrence
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Character: Father Merrin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Eugene O'Neill
Character: Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Smålands-Pelle
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self - Co-Host