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Max von Sydow

1929–2020 · 61 titles in the catalogue

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).

Their work

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  1. Game of Thrones2011as Three-Eyed Raven
  2. Shutter Island2010as Dr. Naehring
  3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens2015as Lor San Tekka
  4. The Simpsons1989as Klaus Ziegler (voice)
  5. Minority Report2002as Director Lamar Burgess
  6. The Exorcist1973as Father Lankester Merrin
  7. Robin Hood2010as Sir Walter Loxley
  8. Ghostbusters II1989as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
  9. Rush Hour 32007as Varden Reynard
  10. Dune1984as Doctor Kynes
  11. The Seventh Seal1957as Antonius Block
  12. Awakenings1990as Peter Ingham
  13. Conan the Barbarian1982as King Osric
  14. Judge Dredd1995as Chief Justice Fargo
  15. What Dreams May Come1998as The Tracker
  16. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close2011as The Renter
  17. Wild Strawberries1957as Åkerman
  18. Never Say Never Again1983as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
  19. Solomon Kane2009as Josiah Kane
  20. Three Days of the Condor1975as G. Joubert
  21. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly2007as Papinou
  22. Hannah and Her Sisters1986as Frederick
  23. Flash Gordon1980as The Emperor Ming
  24. Escape to Victory1981as Major Karl von Steiner
  25. The Tudors2007as Cardinal Von Waldburg
  26. Exorcist II: The Heretic1977as Father Lankester Merrin
  27. Kursk2018as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
  28. The Virgin Spring1960as Töre
  29. Needful Things1993as Leland Gaunt
  30. Hour of the Wolf1968as Johan Borg
  31. Through a Glass Darkly1961as Martin
  32. Winter Light1963as Jonas Persson
  33. Citizen X1995as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
  34. Europa1991as Narrator (voice)
  35. Dreamscape1984as Paul Novotny
  36. Sleepless2001as Moretti
  37. The Magician1958as Albert Emanuel Vogler
  38. Shame1968as Jan Rosenberg
  39. Until the End of the World1991as Henry Farber
  40. Strange Brew1983as Brewmeister Smith
  41. The Greatest Story Ever Told1965as Jesus
  42. Intacto2001as Samuel
  43. The Passion of Anna1969as Andreas Winkelman
  44. Branded2012as Marketing Guru
  45. Pelle the Conqueror1987as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
  46. Ring of the Nibelungs2004as Eyvind
  47. Snow Falling on Cedars1999as Nels Gudmundsson
  48. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles1992as Sigmund Freud
  49. Heidi2005as Uncle Alp
  50. A Kiss Before Dying1991as Thor Carlsson
  51. Nuremberg2000as Samuel Rosenman
  52. The Emigrants1971as Karl Oskar
  53. Death Watch1980as Gerald Mortenhoe
  54. The New Land1972as Karl Oskar
  55. Illustrious Corpses1976as Supreme Court President
  56. Brink of Life1958as Harry Andersson
  57. The Desert of the Tartars1976as Cap. Ortiz
  58. I Am Divine2014as Self (archive)
  59. March or Die1977as François Marneau
  60. Lumière & Company1995as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
  61. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid2000as Freud