Max von Sydow

Born: 1929-04-10, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden

Died: 2020-03-08

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).

Filmography

• The Simpsons (1989)
• Game of Thrones (2011)
• The Tudors (2007)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Rush Hour 3 (2007)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Conan the Barbarian (1982)
• Robin Hood (2010)
• Cristoforo Colombo (1985)
• Judge Dredd (1995)
• Awakenings (1990)
• Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
• Solomon Kane (2009)
• What Dreams May Come (1998)
• Never Say Never Again (1983)
• Flash Gordon (1980)
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
• Escape to Victory (1981)
• Needful Things (1993)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
• Kursk (2018)
• Citizen X (1995)
• Smultronstället (1957)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991)