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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

Minority Report
Character: Director Lamar Burgess [Pre-Crime]
The Seventh Seal
Character: Antonius Block
Wild Strawberries
Character: Åkerman

Hostile Waters
Character: Admiral Chernavin
Snow Falling on Cedars
Character: Nels Gudmundsson
Dune
Character: Doctor Kynes

Max von Sydow
Character: Self (archive footage)
Until the End of the World
Character: Henry Farber

Needful Things
Character: Leland Gaunt
Flash Gordon
Character: The Emperor Ming

Intact
Character: Samuel
Awakenings
Character: Peter Ingham
Pelle the Conqueror
Character: Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand

Ring of the Nibelungs
Character: Eyvind
Robin Hood
Character: Sir Walter Loxley
Hannah and Her Sisters
Character: Frederick

Rush Hour 3
Character: Varden Reynard
Shutter Island
Character: Dr. Naehring
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Character: Father Lankester Merrin

Through a Glass Darkly
Character: Martin
Dreamscape
Character: Paul Novotny

A Look at Liv
Character: Self
The Virgin Spring
Character: Töre
The Final Inquiry
Character: Tiberius

Three Days of the Condor
Character: G. Joubert
A Kiss Before Dying
Character: Thor Carlsson
The Ultimate Warrior
Character: Baron

What Dreams May Come
Character: The Tracker
March or Die
Character: François Marneau
Citizen X
Character: Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky

Europa
Character: Narrator (voice)
Judge Dredd
Character: Chief Justice Fargo
Shame
Character: Jan Rosenberg

The Exorcist
Character: Father Lankester Merrin
Druids
Character: Guttuart
Strange Brew
Character: Brewmeister Smith

Conan the Barbarian
Character: King Osric
Solomon Kane
Character: Josiah Kane
Emotional Arithmetic
Character: Jakob Bronski

The Emigrants
Character: Karl Oskar
A Man and His Dog
Character: Le commandant
The Best Intentions
Character: Johan Åkerblom

The Magician
Character: Albert Emanuel Vogler
Winter Light
Character: Jonas Persson
Never Say Never Again
Character: Ernst Stavro Blofeld

The New Land
Character: Karl Oskar
The Passion of Anna
Character: Andreas Winkelman

Hawaii
Character: Abner Hale
Brink of Life
Character: Harry Andersson
Heidi
Character: Uncle Alp

Illustrious Corpses
Character: Supreme Court President
Minns ni?
Character: (archive footage)

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Character: Self (archive footage)
Private Confessions
Character: Jacob

The Kremlin Letter
Character: Colonel Kosnov
The Apple War
Character: Roy Lindberg
The Quiller Memorandum
Character: Oktober

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Character: The Renter
The Desert of the Tartars
Character: Cap. Ortiz
Sleepless
Character: Moretti

Miss Julie
Character: Groom
Escape to Victory
Character: Major Karl von Steiner
Hour of the Wolf
Character: Johan Borg

Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Character: Le docteur Dusseldorf
Delblanc
Character: Narrator (voice)
Duet for One
Character: Dr. Louis Feldman

The Night Visitor
Character: Salem
Brass Target
Character: Shelley Martin Webber
The Flight of the Eagle
Character: Salomon August Andrée

Light Keeps Me Company
Character: Self
Steppenwolf
Character: Harry Haller
Code Name: Emerald
Character: Jürgen Brausch

Hidden Children
Character: Valobra
Voyage of the Damned
Character: Captain Schroeder
Och ge oss skuggorna
Character: Eugene O'Neill

Black Journal
Character: Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Solomon
Character: Davide
Hamsun
Character: Knut Hamsun

Heart of a Dog
Character: Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Character: Self - Father Merrin
Ghostbusters II
Character: Vigo (voice) (uncredited)

The Touch
Character: Andreas Vergerus
The Reward
Character: Scott Swenson
The Soldier's Tale
Character: The Devil (voice)

Depth Solitude
Character: Narrator (voice)
Branded
Character: Marketing Guru

Foxtrot
Character: Larsen
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Character: The Father
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Character: Self (archive footage)

The Bachelor
Character: Von Schleheim
The Wolf at the Door
Character: August Strindberg
The Silent Touch
Character: Henry Kesdi

Only a Mother
Character: Nils
The Mistress
Character: The Man
Jerusalem
Character: Vicar

Target Eagle
Character: Coronel O'Donnell
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Character: Lor San Tekka
Father
Character: Joe Mueller

Red King, White Knight
Character: Szaz
The Right to Love
Character: Bergman

Ingen mans kvinna
Character: Olof
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Character: The Father
Stjärnbilder
Character: (archive footage)

Samson and Delilah
Character: Sidka
Here Is Your Life
Character: Smålands-Pelle
The Ox
Character: Vicar

Black Palm Trees
Character: Gustav Olofsson
Venetian Lies
Character: Marcello Herrighe
Interlude in the Marshland
Character: Alex Kvist

Let Poland Be Poland
Character: Self - Co-Host
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Character: Hunter
Spion 503
Character: Horst, Gestapo-mand

The Letters
Character: Celeste van Exem
The Second Victory
Character: Dr. Huber
Hurricane
Character: Dr. Danielsson

The First, the Last
Character: Le croque-mort
Rabies
Character: Bo Stensson Svenningson

Le dernier civil
Character: Gérard Bauerle
Their Frozen Dream
Character: S.A. Andrée (voice)
She Dances Alone
Character: Nijinsky's voice

Cellini: A Violent Life
Character: Papa Clemente VII
Kojak: The Belarus File
Character: Peter Barak

Made in Sweden
Character: Magnus Rud
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Character: Father Siemes

Kursk
Character: Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
The Repenter
Character: Spinola
4 x 4
Character: Kvist

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Character: Dr. Alistair Conis
The Diary of Anne Frank
Character: Otto Frank

Morfars resa
Character: Simon S.L. Fromm
Onkel Vanja
Character: The Professor

The Last Norwegian Troll
Character: The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
The Atlantic
Character: Narrator (voice)
Ingmar Bergman
Character: Self

Embassy
Character: Gorenko

The Wolfman
Character: Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
Circle of Passions
Character: Carlo di Vilalfratti

The Wedding Day
Character: Anders Frost
Behind the Moomins
Character: Narrator (voice)
Death Watch
Character: Gerald Mortenhoe

Time is Money
Character: Joe Kaufman
The Broken Mirror
Character: Matthew Lawrence

Samson and Delilah
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Echoes of the Past
Character: Nikolas Andreou (Aged)

The Minister of Uddarbo
Character: Gustaf Ömark
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Character: Narrator (voice)
Destination Dune
Character: Self