Max von Sydow
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).
As actor 186
The Simpsons
1989
Game of Thrones
2011
The Tudors
2007
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Shutter Island
2010
Dune
1984
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
The Exorcist
1973
Minority Report
2002
Ghostbusters II
1989
Rush Hour 3
2007
Conan the Barbarian
1982
Robin Hood
2010
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Judge Dredd
1995
Grimme Award
1964
Christopher Columbus
1985
The Seventh Seal
1957
Solomon Kane
2009
Never Say Never Again
1983
Awakenings
1990
What Dreams May Come
1998
Flash Gordon
1980
Escape to Victory
1981
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
Needful Things
1993
Three Days of the Condor
1975
Wild Strawberries
1957
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
1968
Kursk
2018
Citizen X
1995
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
The Guldbagge Awards
1981
Nuremberg
2000
Dreamscape
1984
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
March or Die
1977
Voyage of the Damned
1976
Europa
1991
The Magician
1958
Ring of the Nibelungs
2004
The Ultimate Warrior
1975
Ring of the Nibelungs
2004
The Virgin Spring
1960
Heart of a Dog
1976
Gösta Berlings saga
1986
The Final Inquiry
2007
The Passion of Anna
1969
Shame
1968
Winter Light
1963
Branded
2012
Hour of the Wolf
1968
Until the End of the World
1991
Strange Brew
1983
The Wolf at the Door
1986
Black Journal
1977
A Kiss Before Dying
1991
Solomon
1997
Quo Vadis?
1985
The Minister of Uddarbo
1957
Lumière & Company
1995
Through a Glass Darkly
1961
Echoes of the Past
2021
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
The Last Place on Earth
1985
The Kremlin Letter
1970
Code Name: Emerald
1985
Pelle the Conqueror
1987
Sleepless
2001
Heidi
2005
The Best Intentions
1992
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
The Apple War
1971
Hostile Waters
1997
The New Land
1972
I Am Divine
2014
Intacto
2001
The Reward
1965
Black Palm Trees
1968
The Letters
2014
Brass Target
1978
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
Duet for One
1986
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
2000
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007
Miss Julie
1951
The Resurrection of Christ
2026
A Man and His Dog
2009
Their Frozen Dream
1997
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009
Druids
2001
The Emigrants
1971
Ingmar Bergman
1972
Hawaii
1966
Death Watch
1980
The Emigrants
1974
The Flight of the Eagle
1982
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
Brink of Life
1958
Only a Mother
1949
Illustrious Corpses
1976
The Broken Mirror
1975
A che punto è la notte
1994
The Repenter
1985
The Right to Love
1956
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974
The Night Visitor
1971
Palme
2012
Rabies
1958
Radetzky March
1995
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
1957
The Atlantic
1995
The First, the Last
2016
Professione fantasma
1998
Here Is Your Life
1966
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
The Touch
1971
Steppenwolf
1974
Onkel Vanja
1994
Depth Solitude
1995
Delblanc
1996
Hurricane
1979
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
1998
Hamsun
1996
The Princess and the Pauper
1997
Hidden Children
2004
The Ox
1991
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
1964
Samson and Delilah
1984
Solomon
1997
Target Eagle
1982
Foxtrot
1976
Max von Sydow
2017
Private Confessions
1996
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
1975
Circle of Passions
1983
La principessa e il povero
1997
Jerusalem
1996
Interlude in the Marshland
1965
Tuschinski's Dream
2017
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
2013
Red King, White Knight
1989
Behind the Moomins
2010
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
Och ge oss skuggorna
1993
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990
The Bachelor
1990
Kojak: The Belarus File
1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
1988
Destination Dune
1983
Time is Money
1994
She Dances Alone
1981
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
2000
The Last Norwegian Troll
2010
The Silent Touch
1992
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1962
Embassy
1972
4 x 4
1965
Le dernier civil
1984
Anders Zorn - Med egna ord
1995
The Human Factor
1988
Light Keeps Me Company
2000
Made in Sweden
1969
The Soldier's Tale
1984
Minns ni?
1993
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
Spion 503
1958
No Man's Woman
1953
The Mistress
1962
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
1995
Venetian Lies
1981
The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
1991
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
1982
Morfars resa
1993
Father
1990
The Second Victory
1987
The Wedding Day
1960
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
2012
A Look at Liv
1979
Stjärnbilder
1995
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
1989
