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
Also known As
Max Carl Adolf von Sydow
Max Von Sydow
Макс фон Сюдов
Carl Adolf von Sydow
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
as Director Lamar Burgess
1957
as Antonius Block
1957
as Åkerman
1997
as Admiral Chernavin
1999
as Nels Gudmundsson
1984
as Doctor Kynes
2017
as Self (archive footage)
1965
as Jesus
1991
as Henry Farber
1993
as Leland Gaunt
2007
as Papinou
1980
as The Emperor Ming
2001
as Samuel
1990
as Peter Ingham
1987
as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
2004
as Eyvind
2010
as Sir Walter Loxley
1986
as Frederick
2007
as Varden Reynard
2010
as Dr. Naehring
1977
as Father Lankester Merrin
1964
as Self
1961
as Martin
1984
as Paul Novotny
1979
as Self
1960
as Töre
2007
as Tiberius
1975
as G. Joubert
1991
as Thor Carlsson
1975
as Baron
1998
as The Tracker
1977
as François Marneau
1995
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
1991
as Narrator (voice)
1995
as Chief Justice Fargo
1968
as Jan Rosenberg
1973
as Father Lankester Merrin
2001
as Guttuart
1983
as Brewmeister Smith
1982
as King Osric
2009
as Josiah Kane
2008
as Jakob Bronski
1971
as Karl Oskar
2009
as Le commandant
1992
as Johan Åkerblom
1958
as Albert Emanuel Vogler
1963
as Jonas Persson
1983
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1972
as Karl Oskar
1969
as Andreas Winkelman
1966
as Abner Hale
1958
as Harry Andersson
2005
as Uncle Alp
1976
as Supreme Court President
1993
as (archive footage)
1985
1974
as Self (archive footage)
1996
as Jacob
2011
1970
as Colonel Kosnov
1971
as Roy Lindberg
1966
as Oktober
2011
as The Renter
1976
as Cap. Ortiz
2001
as Moretti
1951
as Groom
1981
as Major Karl von Steiner
1968
as Johan Borg
2009
as Le docteur Dusseldorf
1996
as Narrator (voice)
1986
as Dr. Louis Feldman
1971
as Salem
1978
as Shelley Martin Webber
1982
as Salomon August Andrée
2000
as Self
1974
as Harry Haller
1985
as Jürgen Brausch
2004
as Valobra
1976
as Captain Schroeder
1993
as Eugene O'Neill
1977
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
1997
as Davide
1996
as Knut Hamsun
1976
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
1998
as Self - Father Merrin
1989
as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
1971
as Andreas Vergerus
1965
as Scott Swenson
1984
as The Devil (voice)
2000
1995
as Narrator (voice)
2012
as Marketing Guru
1976
as Larsen
1975
as The Father
2023
as Self (archive footage)
1990
as Von Schleheim
1986
as August Strindberg
1992
as Henry Kesdi
1949
as Nils
1962
as The Man
1996
as Vicar
1982
as Coronel O'Donnell
2015
as Lor San Tekka
1990
as Joe Mueller
1989
as Szaz
2012
1956
as Bergman
1953
as Olof
1962
as The Father
1995
as (archive footage)
1984
as Sidka
1966
as Smålands-Pelle
1991
as Vicar
1968
as Gustav Olofsson
1981
as Marcello Herrighe
1965
as Alex Kvist
1982
as Self - Co-Host
1957
as Hunter
1958
as Horst, Gestapo-mand
2014
as Celeste van Exem
1987
as Dr. Huber
1979
as Dr. Danielsson
2016
as Le croque-mort
1958
as Bo Stensson Svenningson
1988
1984
as Gérard Bauerle
1997
as S.A. Andrée (voice)
1981
as Nijinsky's voice
1990
as Papa Clemente VII
1985
as Peter Barak
1969
as Magnus Rud
1990
as Father Siemes
2018
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
1985
as Spinola
1965
as Kvist
1997
as Epos
2013
as Dr. Alistair Conis
1967
as Otto Frank
1993
as Simon S.L. Fromm
1994
as The Professor
2010
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
1995
as Narrator (voice)
1972
as Self
1968
1995
as Narrator (voice)
1972
as Gorenko
2010
as Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
1983
as Carlo di Vilalfratti
1985
1960
as Anders Frost
2010
as Narrator (voice)
1980
as Gerald Mortenhoe
1994
as Joe Kaufman
1975
as Matthew Lawrence
1989
1996
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2021
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
1988
1957
as Gustaf Ömark
1991
as Narrator (voice)
1983
as Self
2012
Production
1988
as Director
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