Max von Sydow
Acting
Born: April 10, 1929 · Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
Died: March 8, 2020 (aged 90)
Highest Rated
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).
Known for
Game of Thrones
2011
Shutter Island
2010
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
The Simpsons
1989
Minority Report
2002
The Exorcist
1973
Robin Hood
2010
Ghostbusters II
1989
Rush Hour 3
2007
Dune
1984
The Seventh Seal
1957
Awakenings
1990
Photos (14)
Movies (143)
Shutter Island
Dr. Naehring
The Exorcist
Father Lankester Merrin
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Lor San Tekka
Minority Report
Director Lamar Burgess
Awakenings
Peter Ingham
Ghostbusters II
Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Father Lankester Merrin
Rush Hour 3
Varden Reynard
Dune
Doctor Kynes
Robin Hood
Sir Walter Loxley
Conan the Barbarian
King Osric
What Dreams May Come
The Tracker
The Seventh Seal
Antonius Block
Judge Dredd
Chief Justice Fargo
Needful Things
Leland Gaunt
Never Say Never Again
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Hannah and Her Sisters
Frederick
Wild Strawberries
Åkerman
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Renter
Solomon Kane
Josiah Kane
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Jesus
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Papinou
Hour of the Wolf
Johan Borg
Voyage of the Damned
Captain Schroeder
Three Days of the Condor
G. Joubert
Flash Gordon
The Emperor Ming
Citizen X
Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Escape to Victory
Major Karl von Steiner
Until the End of the World
Henry Farber
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
Sleepless
Moretti
The Virgin Spring
Töre
Kursk
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Snow Falling on Cedars
Nels Gudmundsson
A Kiss Before Dying
Thor Carlsson
Through a Glass Darkly
Martin
Shame
Jan Rosenberg
Here Is Your Life
Smålands-Pelle
March or Die
François Marneau
The Ultimate Warrior
Baron
Pelle the Conqueror
Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
The Wolf at the Door
August Strindberg
The Quiller Memorandum
Oktober
Strange Brew
Brewmeister Smith
Intacto
Samuel
Druids
Guttuart
Echoes of the Past
Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Lumière & Company
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Only a Mother
Nils
The Best Intentions
Johan Åkerblom
Winter Light
Jonas Persson
Duet for One
Dr. Louis Feldman
Illustrious Corpses
Supreme Court President
Solomon
Davide
Dreamscape
Paul Novotny
Brink of Life
Harry Andersson
Europa
Narrator (voice)
Brass Target
Shelley Martin Webber
The New Land
Karl Oskar
The Final Inquiry
Tiberius
Death Watch
Gerald Mortenhoe
A Man and His Dog
Le commandant
The Desert of the Tartars
Cap. Ortiz
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Father Siemes
The Flight of the Eagle
Salomon August Andrée
The Magician
Albert Emanuel Vogler
Hostile Waters
Admiral Chernavin
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Father
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Le docteur Dusseldorf
Branded
Marketing Guru
The Night Visitor
Salem
Code Name: Emerald
Jürgen Brausch
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Hunter
The First, the Last
Le croque-mort
The Passion of Anna
Andreas Winkelman
Black Journal
Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Cellini: A Violent Life
Pope Clement VII
Hawaii
Abner Hale
Heidi
Uncle Alp
Target Eagle
Coronel O'Donnell
The Repenter
Spinola
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Freud
The Princess and the Pauper
Epos
Rabies
Bo Stensson Svenningson
Hamsun
Knut Hamsun
The Letters
Celeste van Exem
The Reward
Scott Swenson
Kojak: The Belarus File
Peter Barak
The Broken Mirror
Matthew Lawrence
Heart of a Dog
Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
The Kremlin Letter
Colonel Kosnov
Miss Julie
Groom
The Apple War
Roy Lindberg
The Right to Love
Bergman
Steppenwolf
Harry Haller
Delblanc
Narrator (voice)
Depth Solitude
Narrator (voice)
Samson and Delilah
Sidka
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Voice
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
The Touch
Andreas Vergerus
The Last Norwegian Troll
The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
Circle of Passions
Carlo di Vilalfratti
Emotional Arithmetic
Jakob Bronski
The Bachelor
Von Schleheim
Private Confessions
Jacob
Red King, White Knight
Szaz
The Resurrection of Christ
2026
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
Black Palm Trees
Gustav Olofsson
Jerusalem
Vicar
Och ge oss skuggorna
Eugene O'Neill
Embassy
Gorenko
The Soldier's Tale
The Devil (voice)
Made in Sweden
Magnus Rud
Onkel Vanja
The Professor
The Silent Touch
Henry Kesdi
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Dr. Alistair Conis
Interlude in the Marshland
Alex Kvist
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
The Father
Hidden Children
Valobra
Morfars resa
Simon S.L. Fromm
The Atlantic
Narrator (voice)
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
1982
Hurricane
Dr. Danielsson
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
The Wedding Day
Anders Frost
The Mistress
The Man
Time is Money
Joe Kaufman
Le dernier civil
Gérard Bauerle
The Ox
Vicar
Father
Joe Mueller
The Second Victory
Dr. Huber
Their Frozen Dream
S.A. Andrée (voice)
Tuschinski's Dream
2017
Minns ni?
(archive footage)
Foxtrot
Larsen
She Dances Alone
Nijinsky (voice)
No Man's Woman
Olof
The Minister of Uddarbo
Gustaf Ömark
Venetian Lies
Marcello Herrighe
4 x 4
Kvist
Spion 503
Horst, Gestapo-mand
TV Shows (17)
The Simpsons
Klaus Ziegler (voice) · 1 eps
Game of Thrones
Three-Eyed Raven · 3 eps
The Tudors
Cardinal Von Waldburg · 8 eps
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Sigmund Freud · 1 eps
Nuremberg
Samuel Rosenman · 2 eps
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind · 2 eps
The Last Place on Earth
Fridtjof Nansen · 7 eps
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Tiberio · 2 eps
Quo Vadis?
Petrus · 6 eps
Radetzky March
Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje · 3 eps
Christopher Columbus
Re Giovanni del Portogallo · 4 eps
A che punto è la notte
Arcivescovo di Torino · 2 eps
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar · 8 eps
Solomon
David · 2 eps
La principessa e il povero
Epos · 2 eps
Professione fantasma
Psicoanalista dell’aldilà · 11 eps
Gösta Berlings saga
Melchior Sinclaire · 6 eps
Self / Appearances (18)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter · 1 eps
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Best Director winner · 1 eps
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Host · 1 eps
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Best Actor winner · 2 eps
I Am Divine
Self (archive)
Destination Dune
Self
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Self - Father Merrin
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Self
Let Poland Be Poland
Self - Co-Host
Ingmar Bergman
Self
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Self
Light Keeps Me Company
Self
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self
Palme
Self (archive footage)
Max von Sydow
Self (archive footage)
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
Self
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Self
