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