Caramel Corn

Name
Max von Sydow

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1929-04-10

Deathday
2020-03-08 (91 years old)

Place of Birth
Lund, Skåne län, Sweden

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).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2002 Minority Report as Director Lamar Burgess
1957 The Seventh Seal as Antonius Block
1957 Wild Strawberries as Åkerman
1997 Hostile Waters as Admiral Chernavin
1999 Snow Falling on Cedars as Nels Gudmundsson
1984 Dune as Doctor Kynes
2017 Max von Sydow as Self (archive footage)
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told as Jesus
1991 Until the End of the World as Henry Farber
1993 Needful Things as Leland Gaunt
2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as Papinou
1980 Flash Gordon as The Emperor Ming
2001 Intacto as Samuel
1990 Awakenings as Peter Ingham
1987 Pelle the Conqueror as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
2004 Ring of the Nibelungs as Eyvind
2010 Robin Hood as Sir Walter Loxley
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters as Frederick
2007 Rush Hour 3 as Varden Reynard
2010 Shutter Island as Dr. Naehring
1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic as Father Lankester Merrin
1964 Dance Around the Guldbaggen as Self
1961 Through a Glass Darkly as Martin
1984 Dreamscape as Paul Novotny
1979 A Look at Liv as Self
1960 The Virgin Spring as Töre
2007 The Final Inquiry as Tiberius
1975 Three Days of the Condor as G. Joubert
1991 A Kiss Before Dying as Thor Carlsson
1975 The Ultimate Warrior as Baron
1998 What Dreams May Come as The Tracker
1977 March or Die as François Marneau
1995 Citizen X as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
1991 Europa as Narrator (voice)
1995 Judge Dredd as Chief Justice Fargo
1968 Shame as Jan Rosenberg
1973 The Exorcist as Father Lankester Merrin
2001 Druids as Guttuart
1983 Strange Brew as Brewmeister Smith
1982 Conan the Barbarian as King Osric
2009 Solomon Kane as Josiah Kane
2008 Emotional Arithmetic as Jakob Bronski
1971 The Emigrants as Karl Oskar
2009 A Man and His Dog as Le commandant
1992 The Best Intentions as Johan Åkerblom
1958 The Magician as Albert Emanuel Vogler
1963 Winter Light as Jonas Persson
1983 Never Say Never Again as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
2017 Tuschinski's Dream
1972 The New Land as Karl Oskar
1969 The Passion of Anna as Andreas Winkelman
1966 Hawaii as Abner Hale
1958 Brink of Life as Harry Andersson
2005 Heidi as Uncle Alp
1976 Illustrious Corpses as Supreme Court President
1993 Minns ni? as (archive footage)
1974 The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute as Self (archive footage)
1996 Private Confessions as Jacob
2011 Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde as Self
1970 The Kremlin Letter as Colonel Kosnov
1971 The Apple War as Roy Lindberg
1966 The Quiller Memorandum as Oktober
2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as The Renter
1976 The Desert of the Tartars as Cap. Ortiz
2001 Sleepless as Moretti
1951 Miss Julie as Groom
1981 Escape to Victory as Major Karl von Steiner
1968 Hour of the Wolf as Johan Borg
2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink as Le docteur Dusseldorf
1996 Delblanc as Narrator (voice)
1986 Duet for One as Dr. Louis Feldman
1971 The Night Visitor as Salem
1978 Brass Target as Shelley Martin Webber
1982 The Flight of the Eagle as Salomon August Andrée
2000 Light Keeps Me Company as Self
1974 Steppenwolf as Harry Haller
1985 Code Name: Emerald as Jürgen Brausch
2004 Hidden Children as Valobra
1976 Voyage of the Damned as Captain Schroeder
1993 Och ge oss skuggorna as Eugene O'Neill
1977 Black Journal as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
1997 Solomon as Davide
1996 Hamsun as Knut Hamsun
1976 Heart of a Dog as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
1998 The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist as Self - Father Merrin
1989 Ghostbusters II as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
1971 The Touch as Andreas Vergerus
1965 The Reward as Scott Swenson
1984 The Soldier's Tale as The Devil (voice)
2000 Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' as Self
1995 Depth Solitude as Narrator (voice)
2012 Branded as Marketing Guru
1976 Foxtrot as Larsen
1975 Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story as The Father
1990 The Bachelor as Von Schleheim
1986 The Wolf at the Door as August Strindberg
1992 The Silent Touch as Henry Kesdi
1949 Only a Mother as Nils
1962 The Mistress as The Man
1996 Jerusalem as Vicar
1982 Target Eagle as Coronel O'Donnell
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Lor San Tekka
1990 Father as Joe Mueller
1989 Red King, White Knight as Szaz
2012 Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter as Self
1956 The Right to Love as Bergman
1953 No Man's Woman as Olof
1962 Wonderful Adventures of Nils as The Father
1995 Stjärnbilder as (archive footage)
1984 Samson and Delilah as Sidka
1966 Here Is Your Life as Smålands-Pelle
1991 The Ox as Vicar
1968 Black Palm Trees as Gustav Olofsson
1981 Venetian Lies as Marcello Herrighe
1965 Interlude in the Marshland as Alex Kvist
1982 Let Poland Be Poland as Self - Co-Host
1957 Mr. Sleeman Is Coming as Hunter
1958 Spion 503 as Horst, Gestapo-mand
2014 The Letters as Celeste van Exem
1987 The Second Victory as Dr. Huber
1979 Hurricane as Dr. Danielsson
2016 The First, the Last as Le croque-mort
1958 Rabies as Bo Stensson Svenningson
1988 The Human Factor
1984 Le dernier civil as Gérard Bauerle
1997 Their Frozen Dream as S.A. Andrée (voice)
1981 She Dances Alone as Nijinsky (voice)
1990 Cellini: A Violent Life as Pope Clement VII
2012 Starring Sigmund Freud
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File as Peter Barak
1969 Made in Sweden as Magnus Rud
1982 The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
1990 Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes as Father Siemes
2018 Kursk as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
1985 The Repenter as Spinola
1965 4 x 4 as Kvist
1997 The Princess and the Pauper as Epos
2013 Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures as Dr. Alistair Conis
1967 The Diary of Anne Frank as Otto Frank
1993 Morfars resa as Simon S.L. Fromm
1994 Onkel Vanja as The Professor
2000 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid as Freud
2010 The Last Norwegian Troll as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
1995 The Atlantic as Narrator (voice)
1972 Ingmar Bergman as Self
1968 An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman as Self
1995 Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer as Narrator (voice)
1972 Embassy as Gorenko
1983 Circle of Passions as Carlo di Vilalfratti
1985 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as Self
1960 The Wedding Day as Anders Frost
2010 Behind the Moomins as Narrator (voice)
1980 Death Watch as Gerald Mortenhoe
1994 Time is Money as Joe Kaufman
1975 The Broken Mirror as Matthew Lawrence
1989 Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood as Self
2021 Echoes of the Past as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
1988 Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern as Voice
1957 The Minister of Uddarbo as Gustaf Ömark
1991 East of the Sun, West of the Moon as Narrator (voice)
1983 Destination Dune as Self
2012 Palme as Self (archive footage)
1995 Lumière & Company as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
2026 The Resurrection of Christ
2014 I Am Divine as Self (archive)
1995 Anders Zorn - Med egna ord as Narrator (voice)
2017 The Making of the Greatest Story Ever Told as Self

1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( 1 episode ) as Sigmund Freud
2007 The Tudors ( 8 episodes ) as Cardinal Von Waldburg
1985 The Last Place on Earth ( 7 episodes ) as Fridtjof Nansen
1995 Radetzky March ( 3 episodes ) as Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
2011 Game of Thrones ( 3 episodes ) as Three-Eyed Raven
1997 La principessa e il povero ( 2 episodes ) as Epos
1985 Quo Vadis? ( 6 episodes ) as Petrus
1985 Christopher Columbus ( 4 episodes ) as Re Giovanni del Portogallo
1986 Gösta Berlings saga ( 6 episodes ) as Melchior Sinclaire
2007 L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII ( 2 episodes ) as Tiberio
1998 Professione fantasma ( 11 episodes ) as Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
1964 Grimme Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
1994 A che punto è la notte ( 2 episodes ) as Arcivescovo di Torino
1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Klaus Ziegler (voice)
1981 The Guldbagge Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Best Director winner
1981 The Guldbagge Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
1981 The Guldbagge Awards ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Best Actor winner
1974 The Emigrants ( 8 episodes ) as Karl Oskar
2004 Ring of the Nibelungs ( 2 episodes ) as Eyvind
1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1997 Solomon ( 2 episodes ) as David
2000 Nuremberg ( 2 episodes ) as Samuel Rosenman

Powered By