Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow (10 April 1929 – 8 March 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).
Place of birth
Lund, Skåne län, Sweden 
Date of birth
10th April 1929
Date of death
8th March 2020
Movies that starred Max von Sydow (23 in total)
Kursk [2018]
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Robin Hood [2010]
Sir Walter Loxley
Shutter Island [2010]
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring
Oscar and the Lady in Pink [2009]
Le docteur Dusseldorf
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [2007]
Papinou
Rush Hour 3 [2007]
Varden Reynard
Ring of the Nibelungs [2004]
Eyvind
Minority Report [2002]
Director Lamar Burgess
Intacto [2001]
Samuel
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid [2000]
Freud
Snow Falling on Cedars [1999]
Nels Gudmundsson
What Dreams May Come [1998]
The Tracker
Solomon [1997]
Davide
Hostile Waters [1997]
Admiral Chernavin
Judge Dredd [1995]
Chief Justice Fargo
Citizen X [1995]
Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Needful Things [1993]
Leland Gaunt
Until the End of the World [1991]
Henry Farber
Europa [1991]
Narrator (voice)
Awakenings [1990]
Peter Ingham
Never Say Never Again [1983]
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Exorcist II: The Heretic [1977]
Father Lancaster Merrin
The Exorcist [1973]
Father Lankester Merrin
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