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
Shutter Island
Dr. Naehring
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Sigmund Freud
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Lor San Tekka
The Exorcist
Father Lankester Merrin
Dune
Doctor Kynes
Minority Report
Director Lamar Burgess
Ghostbusters II
Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Nuremberg
Samuel Rosenman
Never Say Never Again
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Robin Hood
Sir Walter Loxley
Conan the Barbarian
King Osric
Judge Dredd
Chief Justice Fargo
Awakenings
Peter Ingham
Needful Things
Leland Gaunt
Solomon Kane
Josiah Kane
Rush Hour 3
Varden Reynard
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Renter
The Magician
Albert Emanuel Vogler
Three Days of the Condor
G. Joubert
Winter Light
Jonas Persson
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Best Director winner
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Host
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Best Actor winner
Heidi
Uncle Alp
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
The Seventh Seal
Antonius Block
The Apple War
Roy Lindberg
Intacto
Samuel
Flash Gordon
The Emperor Ming
The Wolfman
Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
Rabies
Bo Stensson Svenningson
What Dreams May Come
The Tracker
Shame
Jan Rosenberg
Black Journal
Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Christopher Columbus
Re Giovanni del Portogallo
Hannah and Her Sisters
Frederick
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
Hour of the Wolf
Johan Borg
Wild Strawberries
Åkerman
Escape to Victory
Major Karl von Steiner
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Jesus
The Last Place on Earth
Fridtjof Nansen
A Kiss Before Dying
Thor Carlsson
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Father Lankester Merrin
Dreamscape
Paul Novotny
Until the End of the World
Henry Farber
Black Palm Trees
Gustav Olofsson
Kursk
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
The Atlantic
Narrator (voice)
Branded
Marketing Guru
The Wolf at the Door
August Strindberg
The Ultimate Warrior
Baron
Strange Brew
Brewmeister Smith
Voyage of the Damned
Captain Schroeder
Citizen X
Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
The New Land
Karl Oskar
The Night Visitor
Salem
Lumière & Company
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Quo Vadis?
Petrus
March or Die
François Marneau
The Kremlin Letter
Colonel Kosnov
Gösta Berlings saga
Melchior Sinclaire
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Papinou
Onkel Vanja
The Professor
The Mistress
The Man
Solomon
David
Duet for One
Dr. Louis Feldman
Sleepless
Moretti
Death Watch
Gerald Mortenhoe
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
The Father
Snow Falling on Cedars
Nels Gudmundsson
Illustrious Corpses
Supreme Court President
Pelle the Conqueror
Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
The Passion of Anna
Andreas Winkelman
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Tiberio
Ingmar Bergman
Self
Hawaii
Abner Hale
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Le docteur Dusseldorf
The Desert of the Tartars
Cap. Ortiz
The Virgin Spring
Töre
Minns ni?
(archive footage)
Time is Money
Joe Kaufman
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
Europa
Narrator (voice)
Hostile Waters
Admiral Chernavin
Code Name: Emerald
Jürgen Brausch
Palme
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self
The Flight of the Eagle
Salomon August Andrée
Emotional Arithmetic
Jakob Bronski
The Quiller Memorandum
Oktober
Solomon
Davide
The Touch
Andreas Vergerus
The Best Intentions
Johan Åkerblom
The Final Inquiry
Tiberius
La principessa e il povero
Epos
The Broken Mirror
Matthew Lawrence
A che punto è la notte
Arcivescovo di Torino
Through a Glass Darkly
Martin
The Letters
Celeste van Exem
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Self - Father Merrin
Radetzky March
Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
Brass Target
Shelley Martin Webber
Behind the Moomins
Narrator (voice)
Miss Julie
Groom
Echoes of the Past
Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
Foxtrot
Larsen
Kojak The Belarus File
Peter Barak
The Reward
Scott Swenson
Druids
Guttuart
Steppenwolf
Harry Haller
The Bachelor
Von Schleheim
The Last Norwegian Troll
The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
Circle of Passions
Carlo di Vilalfratti
Brink of Life
Harry Andersson
Red King, White Knight
Szaz
Depth Solitude
Narrator (voice)
Heart of a Dog
Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
The Right to Love
Bergman
Hamsun
Knut Hamsun
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Father
A Man and His Dog
Le commandant
The Ox
Vicar
The Princess and the Pauper
Epos
Embassy
Gorenko
The First, the Last
Le croque-mort
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Self
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Self
Professione fantasma
Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
Self
Hurricane
Dr. Danielsson
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Freud
Here Is Your Life
Smålands-Pelle
Cellini: A Violent Life
Pope Clement VII
Samson and Delilah
Sidka
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Father Siemes
The Wedding Day
Anders Frost
Le dernier civil
Gérard Bauerle
Private Confessions
Jacob
Made in Sweden
Magnus Rud
The Silent Touch
Henry Kesdi
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Light Keeps Me Company
Self
Only a Mother
Nils
Jerusalem
Vicar
Destination Dune
Self
The Second Victory
Dr. Huber
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
Let Poland Be Poland
Self - Co-Host
The Repenter
Spinola
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
Their Frozen Dream
S.A. Andrée (voice)
Venetian Lies
Marcello Herrighe
Starring Sigmund Freud
Father
Joe Mueller
Delblanc
Narrator (voice)
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Self
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Hunter
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
Narrator (voice)
Target Eagle
Coronel O'Donnell
The Human Factor
Morfars resa
Simon S.L. Fromm
Interlude in the Marshland
Alex Kvist
Hidden Children
Valobra
Spion 503
Horst, Gestapo-mand
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Self (archive footage)
She Dances Alone
Nijinsky (voice)
A Look at Liv
Self
Och ge oss skuggorna
Eugene O'Neill
No Man's Woman
Olof
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Dr. Alistair Conis
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
Self
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Voice
The Soldier's Tale
The Devil (voice)
4 x 4
Kvist
The Minister of Uddarbo
Gustaf Ömark
Max von Sydow
Self (archive footage)
Tuschinski's Dream
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
Grimme Award
Self