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).
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PHOTOS
TV Series
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
6.5
The Tudors
7.801
The Last Place on Earth
6.8
Radetzky March
6.1
Game of Thrones
8.457
La principessa e il povero
0
Quo Vadis?
5.4
Christopher Columbus
6.5
Gösta Berlings saga
10
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
5
Professione fantasma
6
Grimme Awards Ceremony
0
A che punto è la notte
0
The Simpsons
8.013
The Guldbagge Awards
5.5
The Guldbagge Awards
5.5
The Guldbagge Awards
5.5
Nuremberg
7.427
The Emigrants
8
Ring of the Nibelungs
8
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Solomon
0
Movies
Minority Report
7.352
The Seventh Seal
8.182
Wild Strawberries
8.105
Hostile Waters
6.078
Snow Falling on Cedars
6.1
Dune
6.175
Max von Sydow
10
The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.4
Until the End of the World
6.8
Needful Things
6.23
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
7.567
Flash Gordon
6.236
Intact
6.583
Awakenings
7.8
Pelle the Conqueror
7.27
Ring of the Nibelungs
6.269
Robin Hood
6.397
Hannah and Her Sisters
7.504
Rush Hour 3
6.485
Shutter Island
8.201
Exorcist II: The Heretic
4.5
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
0
Through a Glass Darkly
7.8
Dreamscape
6.098
A Look at Liv
0
The Virgin Spring
7.8
The Final Inquiry
4.7
Three Days of the Condor
7.283
A Kiss Before Dying
5.585
The Ultimate Warrior
5.7
What Dreams May Come
7.203
March or Die
5.8
Citizen X
7.2
Europa
7.337
Judge Dredd
5.84
Shame
7.5
The Exorcist
7.7
Druids
3.098
Strange Brew
6.034
Conan the Barbarian
6.816
Solomon Kane
6
Emotional Arithmetic
5.4
The Emigrants
7.431
A Man and His Dog
5.957
The Best Intentions
7.1
The Magician
7.3
Winter Light
7.9
Never Say Never Again
6.051
Tuschinski's Dream
0
The New Land
7.628
The Passion of Anna
7.505
Hawaii
6.3
Brink of Life
7.5
Heidi
7.626
Illustrious Corpses
6.8
The Fascination
0
Minns ni?
0
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
7.7
Private Confessions
6.2
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
6
The Kremlin Letter
6.1
The Apple War
6
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
6.979
The Quiller Memorandum
5.7
The Desert of the Tartars
6.785
Sleepless
6.126
Miss Julie
6.539
Escape to Victory
6.886
Hour of the Wolf
7.4
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
6.5
Delblanc
0
Duet for One
5.5
The Night Visitor
6.292
Brass Target
5.5
The Flight of the Eagle
7
Light Keeps Me Company
7.8
Steppenwolf
5.909
Code Name: Emerald
6.5
Hidden Children
5.9
Voyage of the Damned
5.986
Och ge oss skuggorna
9
Black Journal
5.4
Solomon
6.6
Hamsun
7.2
Heart of a Dog
5.857
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
7.3
Ghostbusters II
6.592
The Touch
6.1
The Reward
5.7
The Soldier's Tale
6.5
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
6.7
Depth Solitude
5.8
Branded
4.786
Foxtrot
4.7
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
5.963
The Bachelor
0
The Wolf at the Door
5.2
The Silent Touch
5
Only a Mother
6.9
The Mistress
5.9
Jerusalem
7.2
Target Eagle
4.9
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7.258
Father
5.333
Red King, White Knight
6
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
0
The Right to Love
4.8
Ingen mans kvinna
4
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
5.7
Stjärnbilder
0
Samson and Delilah
4.9
Here Is Your Life
7.1
The Ox
6.5
Black Palm Trees
5.5
Venetian Lies
5.167
Interlude in the Marshland
7.25
Let Poland Be Poland
0
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
5.6
Spion 503
4
The Letters
5.5
The Second Victory
6.3
Hurricane
4.7
The First, the Last
6.5
Rabies
6.333
The Human Factor
0
Le dernier civil
0
Their Frozen Dream
5.857
She Dances Alone
0
Cellini: A Violent Life
4.75
Starring Sigmund Freud
0
Kojak The Belarus File
6
Made in Sweden
0
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
5.8
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
5.8
Kursk
6.649
The Repenter
6.1
4 x 4
7.2
The Princess and the Pauper
6.3
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
5.5
The Diary of Anne Frank
6
Morfars resa
0
Onkel Vanja
0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
5.6
The Last Norwegian Troll
6.7
The Atlantic
6
Ingmar Bergman
6.2
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
0
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
0
Embassy
5
The Wolfman
5.879
Circle of Passions
3
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
5.6
The Wedding Day
0
Behind the Moomins
0
Death Watch
6.3
Time is Money
7
The Broken Mirror
8
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
0
Samson and Delilah
6.5
Echoes of the Past
6.6
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
0
The Minister of Uddarbo
0
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
0
Destination Dune
5
Palme
7.6