Max von Sydow
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).
Movies
Echoes of the Past
Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Kursk
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Tuschinski's Dream
The First, the Last
Le croque-mort
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Lor San Tekka
The Letters
Celeste van Exem
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Dr. Alistair Conis
Starring Sigmund Freud
Branded
Marketing Guru
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Renter
The Last Norwegian Troll
The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
Behind the Moomins
Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood
Sir Walter Loxley
Shutter Island
Dr. Naehring
The Wolfman
Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
Solomon Kane
Josiah Kane
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Le docteur Dusseldorf
A Man and His Dog
Le commandant
Emotional Arithmetic
Jakob Bronski
Rush Hour 3
Varden Reynard
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Papinou
The Final Inquiry
Tiberius
Heidi
Uncle Alp
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
Hidden Children
Valobra
Minority Report
Director Lamar Burgess
Intacto
Samuel
Druids
Guttuart
Sleepless
Moretti
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Freud
Snow Falling on Cedars
Nels Gudmundsson
What Dreams May Come
The Tracker
Solomon
Davide
The Princess and the Pauper
Epos
Hostile Waters
Admiral Chernavin
Their Frozen Dream
S.A. Andrée (voice)
Private Confessions
Jacob
Jerusalem
Vicar
Hamsun
Knut Hamsun
Delblanc
Narrator (voice)
Lumière & Company
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
Narrator (voice)
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
Judge Dredd
Chief Justice Fargo
The Atlantic
Narrator (voice)
Citizen X
Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Depth Solitude
Narrator (voice)
Onkel Vanja
The Professor
Time is Money
Joe Kaufman
Minns ni?
(archive footage)
Needful Things
Leland Gaunt
Morfars resa
Simon S.L. Fromm
Och ge oss skuggorna
Eugene O'Neill
The Silent Touch
Henry Kesdi
The Best Intentions
Johan Åkerblom
The Ox
Vicar
Until the End of the World
Henry Farber
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
Europa
Narrator (voice)
A Kiss Before Dying
Thor Carlsson
Awakenings
Peter Ingham
Father
Joe Mueller
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Father Siemes
Cellini: A Violent Life
Pope Clement VII
The Bachelor
Von Schleheim
Red King, White Knight
Szaz
Ghostbusters II
Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Voice
The Human Factor
Pelle the Conqueror
Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
The Second Victory
Dr. Huber
Duet for one
Dr. Louis Feldman
The Wolf at the Door
August Strindberg
Hannah and Her Sisters
Frederick
The Repenter
Spinola
Code Name: Emerald
Jürgen Brausch
Kojak The Belarus File
Peter Barak
Dune
Doctor Kynes
Le dernier civil
Gérard Bauerle
Dreamscape
Paul Novotny
Samson and Delilah
Sidka
The Soldier's Tale
The Devil (voice)
Never Say Never Again
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Strange Brew
Brewmeister Smith
Circle of Passions
Carlo di Vilalfratti
Target Eagle
Coronel O'Donnell
The Flight of the Eagle
Salomon August Andrée
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
Conan the Barbarian
King Osric
She Dances Alone
Nijinsky's voice
Venetian Lies
Marcello Herrighe
Escape to Victory
Major Karl von Steiner
Flash Gordon
The Emperor Ming
Death Watch
Gerald Mortenhoe
Hurricane
Dr. Danielsson
Brass Target
Shelley Martin Webber
Black Journal
Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
March or Die
François Marneau
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Father Lankester Merrin
Voyage of the Damned
Captain Schroeder
The Desert of the Tartars
Cap. Ortiz
Foxtrot
Larsen
Illustrious Corpses
Supreme Court President
Heart of a Dog
Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
The Ultimate Warrior
Baron
Three Days of the Condor
G. Joubert
The Broken Mirror
Matthew Lawrence
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
The Father
Steppenwolf
Harry Haller
The Exorcist
Father Lankester Merrin
Embassy
Gorenko
The New Land
Karl Oskar
The Apple War
Roy Lindberg
The Touch
Andreas Vergerus
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
The Night Visitor
Salem
The Kremlin Letter
Colonel Kosnov
The Passion of Anna
Andreas Winkelman
Made in Sweden
Magnus Rud
Shame
Jan Rosenberg
Black Palm Trees
Gustav Olofsson
Hour of the Wolf
Johan Borg
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
Here Is Your Life
Smålands-Pelle
The Quiller Memorandum
Oktober
Hawaii
Abner Hale
The Reward
Scott Swenson
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Jesus
4 x 4
Kvist
Interlude in the Marshland
Alex Kvist
Winter Light
Jonas Persson
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Father
The Mistress
The Man
Through a Glass Darkly
Martin
The Wedding Day
Anders Frost
The Virgin Spring
Töre
The Magician
Albert Emanuel Vogler
Rabies
Bo Stensson Svenningson
Spion 503
Horst, Gestapo-mand
Brink of Life
Harry Andersson
The Minister of Uddarbo
Gustaf Ömark
Wild Strawberries
Åkerman
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Hunter
The Seventh Seal
Antonius Block
The Right to Love
Bergman
Ingen mans kvinna
Olof
Miss Julie
Groom
Only a Mother
Nils
TV Series
Game of Thrones
Three-Eyed Raven
3 Episodes
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Tiberio
2 Episodes
The Tudors
Cardinal Von Waldburg
8 Episodes
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
2 Episodes
Nuremberg
Samuel Rosenman
2 Episodes
Professione fantasma
Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
11 Episodes
Solomon
David
2 Episodes
La principessa e il povero
Epos
2 Episodes
Radetzky March
Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
3 Episodes
A che punto è la notte
Arcivescovo di Torino
2 Episodes
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Sigmund Freud
1 Episode
The Simpsons
Klaus Ziegler (voice)
1 Episode
Gösta Berlings saga
Melchior Sinclaire
6 Episodes
Christopher Columbus
Re Giovanni del Portogallo
4 Episodes
Quo Vadis?
Petrus
6 Episodes
The Last Place on Earth
Fridtjof Nansen
7 Episodes
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
8 Episodes