Max von Sydow
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).
Known for
The Simpsons
Klaus Ziegler (voice)
Game of Thrones
Three-Eyed Raven
The Tudors
Cardinal Von Waldburg
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Sigmund Freud
Never Say Never Again
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
The Last Place on Earth
Fridtjof Nansen
Shutter Island
Dr. Naehring
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Lor San Tekka
Rush Hour 3
Varden Reynard
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
The Exorcist
Father Lankester Merrin
Robin Hood
Sir Walter Loxley
Minority Report
Director Lamar Burgess
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Best Director winner
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Host
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Best Actor winner
Three Days of the Condor
G. Joubert
Ghostbusters II
Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Dune
Doctor Kynes
Conan the Barbarian
King Osric
Gösta Berlings saga
Melchior Sinclaire
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Renter
Awakenings
Peter Ingham
Solomon
David
Professione fantasma
Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
Nuremberg
Samuel Rosenman
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Jesus
The Wolfman
Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
Christopher Columbus
Re Giovanni del Portogallo
Judge Dredd
Chief Justice Fargo
The Seventh Seal
Antonius Block
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Father Lankester Merrin
Dreamscape
Paul Novotny
La principessa e il povero
Epos
Escape to Victory
Major Karl von Steiner
Quo Vadis?
Petrus
Flash Gordon
The Emperor Ming
Solomon Kane
Josiah Kane
Wild Strawberries
Åkerman
What Dreams May Come
The Tracker
Through a Glass Darkly
Martin
Citizen X
Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Kursk
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Papinou
Hannah and Her Sisters
Frederick
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Tiberio
Shame
Jan Rosenberg
Needful Things
Leland Gaunt
Radetzky March
Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
Samson and Delilah
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Winter Light
Jonas Persson
Hawaii
Abner Hale
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Le docteur Dusseldorf
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Self - Father Merrin
A che punto è la notte
Arcivescovo di Torino
Solomon
Davide
Hour of the Wolf
Johan Borg
Europa
Narrator (voice)
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
Strange Brew
Brewmeister Smith
The Virgin Spring
Töre
Until the End of the World
Henry Farber
The Passion of Anna
Andreas Winkelman
The Best Intentions
Johan Åkerblom
March or Die
François Marneau
Voyage of the Damned
Captain Schroeder
Heidi
Uncle Alp
Druids
Guttuart
Pelle the Conqueror
Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
A Kiss Before Dying
Thor Carlsson
The Final Inquiry
Tiberius
Intact
Samuel
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Self (archive footage)
The Quiller Memorandum
Oktober
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Father Siemes
The Desert of the Tartars
Cap. Ortiz
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
Death Watch
Gerald Mortenhoe
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Father
Branded
Marketing Guru
Snow Falling on Cedars
Nels Gudmundsson
Brink of Life
Harry Andersson
Miss Julie
Groom
Code Name: Emerald
Jürgen Brausch
The Magician
Albert Emanuel Vogler
Palme
Sleepless
Moretti
Illustrious Corpses
Supreme Court President
The Kremlin Letter
Colonel Kosnov
Private Confessions
Jacob
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Self
The Ultimate Warrior
Baron
Black Journal
Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
The Apple War
Roy Lindberg
Kojak The Belarus File
Peter Barak
Hostile Waters
Admiral Chernavin
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Steppenwolf
Harry Haller
The Letters
Celeste van Exem
The Night Visitor
Salem
Jerusalem
Vicar
The Flight of the Eagle
Salomon August Andrée
Here Is Your Life
Smålands-Pelle
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
The Princess and the Pauper
Epos
The Wolf at the Door
August Strindberg
Brass Target
Shelley Martin Webber
The Bachelor
Von Schleheim
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Freud
A Man and His Dog
Le commandant
Samson and Delilah
Sidka
The Reward
Scott Swenson
The New Land
Karl Oskar
The Touch
Andreas Vergerus
Embassy
Gorenko
Hurricane
Dr. Danielsson
Echoes of the Past
Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Duet for One
Dr. Louis Feldman
The Repenter
Spinola
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
The Father
Emotional Arithmetic
Jakob Bronski
Interlude in the Marshland
Alex Kvist
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Self
Light Keeps Me Company
Self
The First, the Last
Le croque-mort
Hamsun
Knut Hamsun
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Hunter
Time is Money
Joe Kaufman
The Soldier's Tale
The Devil (voice)
Destination Dune
Self
The Human Factor
The Ox
Vicar
Cellini: A Violent Life
Papa Clemente VII
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
Self
Hidden Children
Valobra
Foxtrot
Larsen
The Silent Touch
Henry Kesdi
Venetian Lies
Marcello Herrighe
Minns ni?
(archive footage)
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
Narrator (voice)
Let Poland Be Poland
Self - Co-Host
Father
Joe Mueller
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Dr. Alistair Conis
Ingmar Bergman
Self
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Self
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
A Look at Liv
Self
The Wedding Day
Anders Frost
Heart of a Dog
Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
Red King, White Knight
Szaz
The Right to Love
Bergman
Circle of Passions
Carlo di Vilalfratti
Only a Mother
Nils
Target Eagle
Coronel O'Donnell
4 x 4
Kvist
Behind the Moomins
Narrator (voice)
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
Self
The Second Victory
Dr. Huber
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Voice
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Self (archive footage)
Le dernier civil
Gérard Bauerle
Rabies
Bo Stensson Svenningson
The Mistress
The Man
The Last Norwegian Troll
The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
Their Frozen Dream
S.A. Andrée (voice)
Onkel Vanja
The Professor
Morfars resa
Simon S.L. Fromm
The Atlantic
Narrator (voice)
The Fascination
Made in Sweden
Magnus Rud
Black Palm Trees
Gustav Olofsson
Starring Sigmund Freud
Ingen mans kvinna
Olof
The Broken Mirror
Matthew Lawrence
She Dances Alone
Nijinsky's voice
Delblanc
Narrator (voice)
Spion 503
Horst, Gestapo-mand
The Minister of Uddarbo
Gustaf Ömark
Och ge oss skuggorna
Eugene O'Neill
Tuschinski's Dream
Depth Solitude
Narrator (voice)
Max von Sydow
Self (archive footage)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee/Presenter
Grimme Awards Ceremony
Self