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