Max von Sydow
Acting
🎂 1929-04-10
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).
Cast credits(188)
Three-Eyed Raven
2011
Klaus Ziegler (voice)
1989
Self - Nominee/Presenter
1944
Sigmund Freud
1992
Cardinal Von Waldburg
2007
Self
1964
Samuel Rosenman
2000
Re Giovanni del Portogallo
1985
Melchior Sinclaire
1986
Dr. Naehring
2010
Petrus
1985
Self - Best Director winner
1981
Self - Host
1981
Self - Best Actor winner
1981
Lor San Tekka
2015
Fridtjof Nansen
1985
Eyvind
2004
Father Lankester Merrin
1973
Director Lamar Burgess
2002
Varden Reynard
2007
Doctor Kynes
1984
Sir Walter Loxley
2010
Psicoanalista dell’aldilĂ
1998
Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
1989
King Osric
1982
Peter Ingham
1990
Chief Justice Fargo
1995
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1983
Antonius Block
1957
Major Karl von Steiner
1981
Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
2010
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
2018
Tiberio
2007
G. Joubert
1975
Jesus
1965
The Tracker
1998
Father Lankester Merrin
1977
Paul Novotny
1984
Arcivescovo di Torino
1994
Ă…kerman
1957
The Emperor Ming
1980
Frederick
1986
Josiah Kane
2009
The Renter
2011
Johan Borg
1968
Jan Rosenberg
1968
Papinou
2007
Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
1995
Leland Gaunt
1993
Martin
1961
Eyvind
2004
Self - Father Merrin
1998
Abner Hale
1966
Le docteur Dusseldorf
2009
Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
1995
David
1997
Töre
1960
Henry Farber
1991
Brewmeister Smith
1983
Andreas Winkelman
1969
Narrator (voice)
1991
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1996
Karl Oskar
1971
Samuel
2001
Thor Carlsson
1991
Nels Gudmundsson
1999
Albert Emanuel Vogler
1958
Jonas Persson
1963
Uncle Alp
2005
Johan Ă…kerblom
1992
Karl Oskar
1972
Captain Schroeder
1976
Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
1977
Celeste van Exem
2014
Cap. Ortiz
1976
Davide
1997
Karl Oskar
1974
Epos
1997
François Marneau
1977
Supreme Court President
1976
Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
1987
The Father
1962
Shelley Martin Webber
1978
Moretti
2001
Gerald Mortenhoe
1980
Admiral Chernavin
1997
Marketing Guru
2012
Father Siemes
1990
Dr. Danielsson
1979
Tiberius
2007
Guttuart
2001
Andreas Vergerus
1971
Groom
1951
Baron
1975
Vicar
1991
Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
2021
Epos
1997
Harry Haller
1974
SmĂĄlands-Pelle
1966
Oktober
1966
Szaz
1989
August Strindberg
1986
Knut Hamsun
1996
Freud
2000
Self (archive footage)
2023
Hunter
1957
Colonel Kosnov
1970
Roy Lindberg
1971
Henry Kesdi
1992
(archive footage)
1993
Coronel O'Donnell
1982
Alex Kvist
1965
2012
Jakob Bronski
2008
Self - Co-Host
1982
Von Schleheim
1990
Peter Barak
1985
Self
1968
S.A. Andrée (voice)
1997
Sidka
1984
JĂĽrgen Brausch
1985
Salomon August Andrée
1982
Simon S.L. Fromm
1993
Dr. Louis Feldman
1986
Harry Andersson
1958
Salem
1971
Le commandant
2009
Otto Frank
1967
Gorenko
1972
Larsen
1976
Le croque-mort
2016
Marcello Herrighe
1981
Self
1985
Valobra
2004
Self
2011
Self
1983
Vicar
1996
Joe Mueller
1990
Self (archive footage)
1974
Voice
1988
Carlo di Vilalfratti
1983
Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
1976
Self
2000
Spinola
1985
Jacob
1996
Narrator (voice)
1991
Horst, Gestapo-mand
1958
Dr. Huber
1987
Self
1964
Bo Stensson Svenningson
1958
2012
The Father
1975
Nils
1949
Bergman
1956
Dr. Alistair Conis
2013
Magnus Rud
1969
Self (archive footage)
2017
1985
Papa Clemente VII
1990
The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
2010
Kvist
1965
Scott Swenson
1965
Self
1979
Matthew Lawrence
1975
(archive footage)
1995
Nijinsky's voice
1981
The Man
1962
Self
1972
Gustav Olofsson
1968
2017
Narrator (voice)
1995
Joe Kaufman
1994
The Professor
1994
Gustaf Ă–mark
1957
Self
2000
GĂ©rard Bauerle
1984
Self
2012
Narrator (voice)
2010
Olof
1953
1982
Anders Frost
1960
Self
1989
Narrator (voice)
1995
Eugene O'Neill
1993
1988
Narrator (voice)
1995
Narrator (voice)
1996
The Devil (voice)
1984
