Max von Sydow
ActingAlso Known As
Max Carl Adolf von Sydow, Max Von Sydow, Макс фон Сюдов, Carl Adolf von Sydow
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).
Movies
(165 total)
Shutter Island
as Dr. Naehring
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Lor San Tekka
Minority Report
as Director Lamar Burgess
The Exorcist
as Father Lankester Merrin
Robin Hood
as Sir Walter Loxley
Ghostbusters II
as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Rush Hour 3
as Varden Reynard
Dune
as Doctor Kynes
The Seventh Seal
as Antonius Block
Awakenings
as Peter Ingham
Conan the Barbarian
as King Osric
Judge Dredd
as Chief Justice Fargo
What Dreams May Come
as The Tracker
The Wolfman
as Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as The Renter
Wild Strawberries
as Åkerman
Never Say Never Again
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Solomon Kane
as Josiah Kane
Three Days of the Condor
as G. Joubert
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Papinou
TV Shows
(22 total)
Game of Thrones
as Three-Eyed Raven
The Simpsons
as Klaus Ziegler (voice)
The Tudors
as Cardinal Von Waldburg
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Sigmund Freud
Nuremberg
as Samuel Rosenman
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
Quo Vadis?
as Petrus
Radetzky March
as Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
The Last Place on Earth
as Fridtjof Nansen
Christopher Columbus
as Re Giovanni del Portogallo
Ring of the Nibelungs
as Eyvind
Gösta Berlings saga
as Melchior Sinclaire
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
as Tiberio
Professione fantasma
as Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
The Emigrants
as Karl Oskar
A che punto è la notte
as Arcivescovo di Torino
Solomon
as David