Max von Sydow
Born: 1929-04-10 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
Died: 2020-03-08
Known For: Acting
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
2021
- Echoes of the Past as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
2018
- Kursk as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
2017
- Max von Sydow as Self (archive footage)
- Tuschinski's Dream
2016
- The First, the Last as Le croque-mort
2015
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Lor San Tekka
2014
- The Letters as Celeste van Exem
2013
- Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures as Dr. Alistair Conis
2012
- Branded as Marketing Guru
- Palme as Self (archive footage)
- Starring Sigmund Freud
- Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter as Self
2011
- Game of Thrones as Three-Eyed Raven
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as The Renter
- Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde as Self
2010
- Shutter Island as Dr. Naehring
- Robin Hood as Sir Walter Loxley
- The Last Norwegian Troll as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
- Behind the Moomins as Narrator (voice)
2009
- Solomon Kane as Josiah Kane
- A Man and His Dog as Le commandant
- Oscar and the Lady in Pink as Le docteur Dusseldorf
2008
- Emotional Arithmetic as Jakob Bronski
2007
- The Tudors as Cardinal Von Waldburg
- Rush Hour 3 as Varden Reynard
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as Papinou
- The Final Inquiry as Tiberius
- L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Tiberio
2005
- Heidi as Uncle Alp
2004
- Ring of the Nibelungs as Eyvind
- Ring of the Nibelungs as Eyvind
- Hidden Children as Valobra
2002
- Minority Report as Director Lamar Burgess
2000
- Nuremberg as Samuel Rosenman
- Light Keeps Me Company as Self
- Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' as Self
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid as Freud
1999
- Snow Falling on Cedars as Nels Gudmundsson
1998
- What Dreams May Come as The Tracker
- The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist as Self - Father Merrin
- Professione fantasma as Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
1997
- Solomon as Davide
- Hostile Waters as Admiral Chernavin
- Solomon as David
- The Princess and the Pauper as Epos
- La principessa e il povero as Epos
- Their Frozen Dream as S.A. Andrée (voice)
1996
- Hamsun as Knut Hamsun
- Jerusalem as Vicar
- Private Confessions as Jacob
- Delblanc as Narrator (voice)
1995
- Judge Dredd as Chief Justice Fargo
- Citizen X as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
- Radetzky March as Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
- Lumière & Company as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
- The Atlantic as Narrator (voice)
- Stjärnbilder as (archive footage)
- Depth Solitude as Narrator (voice)
- Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer as Narrator (voice)
1994
- A che punto è la notte as Arcivescovo di Torino
- Onkel Vanja as The Professor
- Time is Money as Joe Kaufman
1993
- Needful Things as Leland Gaunt
- Morfars resa as Simon S.L. Fromm
- Och ge oss skuggorna as Eugene O'Neill
- Minns ni? as (archive footage)
1992
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Sigmund Freud
- The Best Intentions as Johan Åkerblom
- The Silent Touch as Henry Kesdi
1991
- Until the End of the World as Henry Farber
- Europa as Narrator (voice)
- A Kiss Before Dying as Thor Carlsson
- The Ox as Vicar
- East of the Sun, West of the Moon as Narrator (voice)
1990
- Awakenings as Peter Ingham
- Cellini: A Violent Life as Pope Clement VII
- Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes as Father Siemes
- Father as Joe Mueller
- The Bachelor as Von Schleheim
1989
- The Simpsons as Klaus Ziegler (voice)
- Ghostbusters II as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
- Red King, White Knight as Szaz
- Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood as Self
1988
- Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern as Voice
- Katinka ... (Director)
- The Human Factor
1987
- Pelle the Conqueror as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
- The Second Victory as Dr. Huber
1986
- Hannah and Her Sisters as Frederick
- Duet for One as Dr. Louis Feldman
- The Wolf at the Door as August Strindberg
- Gösta Berlings saga as Melchior Sinclaire
1985
- The Last Place on Earth as Fridtjof Nansen
- Christopher Columbus as Re Giovanni del Portogallo
- Quo Vadis? as Petrus
- Code Name: Emerald as Jürgen Brausch
- George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as Self
- The Repenter as Spinola
- Kojak The Belarus File as Peter Barak
1984
- Dune as Doctor Kynes
- Dreamscape as Paul Novotny
- Samson and Delilah as Sidka
- The Soldier's Tale as The Devil (voice)
- Le dernier civil as Gérard Bauerle
1983
- Never Say Never Again as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
- Strange Brew as Brewmeister Smith
- Destination Dune as Self
- Circle of Passions as Carlo di Vilalfratti
1982
- Conan the Barbarian as King Osric
- The Flight of the Eagle as Salomon August Andrée
- Target Eagle as Coronel O'Donnell
- The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
- Let Poland Be Poland as Self - Co-Host
1981
- Escape to Victory as Major Karl von Steiner
- The Guldbagge Awards as Self - Best Actor winner
- Venetian Lies as Marcello Herrighe
- She Dances Alone as Nijinsky (voice)
1980
- Flash Gordon as The Emperor Ming
- Death Watch as Gerald Mortenhoe
1979
- Hurricane as Dr. Danielsson
- A Look at Liv as Self
1978
- Brass Target as Shelley Martin Webber
1977
- Exorcist II: The Heretic as Father Lankester Merrin
- March or Die as François Marneau
- Black Journal as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
1976
- Voyage of the Damned as Captain Schroeder
- Illustrious Corpses as Supreme Court President
- The Desert of the Tartars as Cap. Ortiz
- Foxtrot as Larsen
- Heart of a Dog as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
1975
- Three Days of the Condor as G. Joubert
- The Ultimate Warrior as Baron
- Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story as The Father
- The Broken Mirror as Matthew Lawrence
1974
- The Emigrants as Karl Oskar
- Steppenwolf as Harry Haller
- The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute as Self (archive footage)
1973
- The Exorcist as Father Lankester Merrin
1972
- The New Land as Karl Oskar
- Embassy as Gorenko
- Ingmar Bergman as Self
1971
- The Emigrants as Karl Oskar
- The Touch as Andreas Vergerus
- The Apple War as Roy Lindberg
- The Night Visitor as Salem
1970
- The Kremlin Letter as Colonel Kosnov
1969
- The Passion of Anna as Andreas Winkelman
- Made in Sweden as Magnus Rud
1968
- Hour of the Wolf as Johan Borg
- Shame as Jan Rosenberg
- Black Palm Trees as Gustav Olofsson
- An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman as Self
1967
- The Diary of Anne Frank as Otto Frank
1966
- Hawaii as Abner Hale
- The Quiller Memorandum as Oktober
- Here Is Your Life as Smålands-Pelle
1965
- The Greatest Story Ever Told as Jesus
- The Reward as Scott Swenson
- Interlude in the Marshland as Alex Kvist
- 4 x 4 as Kvist
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
- Dance Around the Guldbaggen as Self
1963
- Winter Light as Jonas Persson
1962
- Wonderful Adventures of Nils as The Father
- The Mistress as The Man
1961
- Through a Glass Darkly as Martin
1960
- The Virgin Spring as Töre
- The Wedding Day as Anders Frost
1958
- The Magician as Albert Emanuel Vogler
- Brink of Life as Harry Andersson
- Rabies as Bo Stensson Svenningson
- Spion 503 as Horst, Gestapo-mand
1957
- The Seventh Seal as Antonius Block
- Wild Strawberries as Åkerman
- Mr. Sleeman Is Coming as Hunter
- The Minister of Uddarbo as Gustaf Ömark
1956
- The Right to Love as Bergman
1953
- No Man's Woman as Olof
1951
- Miss Julie as Groom
1949
- Only a Mother as Nils
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter