Max von Sydow

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-04-10 (91 years old)

Deathday

2020-03-08

Place of Birth

Lund, Skåne län, Sweden

Max von Sydow

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, Fat...

Acting

2002

Minority Report

as Director Lamar Burgess

1957

The Seventh Seal

as Antonius Block

1957

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)

1991

1993

Needful Things

as Leland Gaunt

1980

Flash Gordon

as The Emperor Ming

2001

Intact

as Samuel

1990

Awakenings

as Peter Ingham

1987

Pelle the Conqueror

as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand

2010

Robin Hood

as Sir Walter Loxley

1986

2007

Rush Hour 3

as Varden Reynard

2010

Shutter Island

as Dr. Naehring

1977

Exorcist II: The Heretic

as Father Lankester Merrin

1984

Dreamscape

as Paul Novotny

1979

1960

2007

1975

1991

A Kiss Before Dying

as Thor Carlsson

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

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

1970

The Kremlin Letter

as Colonel Kosnov

1971

The Apple War

as Roy Lindberg

1976

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

1978

Brass Target

as Shelley Martin Webber

1982

The Flight of the Eagle

as Salomon August Andrée

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

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)

1995

Depth Solitude

as Narrator (voice)

2012

Branded

as Marketing Guru

1976

Foxtrot

as Larsen

1990

The Bachelor

as Von Schleheim

1986

The Wolf at the Door

as August Strindberg

1992

The Silent Touch

as Henry Kesdi

1949

1962

The Mistress

as The Man

1996

Jerusalem

as Vicar

1982

Target Eagle

as Coronel O'Donnell

2015

1990

Father

as Joe Mueller

1956

1995

Stjärnbilder

as (archive footage)

1984

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

1982

Let Poland Be Poland

as Self - Co-Host

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

1984

Le dernier civil

as Gérard Bauerle

1997

Their Frozen Dream

as S.A. Andrée (voice)

1981

She Dances Alone

as Nijinsky's voice

1990

Cellini: A Violent Life

as Papa Clemente VII

1985

1969

Made in Sweden

as Magnus Rud

1990

2018

Kursk

as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko

1985

The Repenter

as Spinola

1965

4 x 4

as Kvist

1967

1993

Morfars resa

as Simon S.L. Fromm

1994

Onkel Vanja

as The Professor

2010

The Last Norwegian Troll

as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)

1995

The Atlantic

as Narrator (voice)

1972

1972

Embassy

as Gorenko

2010

The Wolfman

as Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)

1983

Circle of Passions

as Carlo di Vilalfratti

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

1996

Samson and Delilah

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

2021

Echoes of the Past

as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)

1957

The Minister of Uddarbo

as Gustaf Ömark

1991

1983

2012

Production

1988

Katinka

as Director

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