Max von Sydow
Birthday: 1929-04-10 | Place of Birth: Lund, Skåne län, SwedenMax von Sydow (10 April 1929 – 8 March 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
Acting
Role
as Self (archive footage)
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
as Self (archive footage)
as Henry Farber
as Celeste van Exem
as Dr. Alistair Conis
as Marketing Guru
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
as The Renter
as Dr. Naehring
as Narrator (voice)
as Sir Walter Loxley
as Josiah Kane
as Le commandant
as Le docteur Dusseldorf
as Jakob Bronski
as Papinou
as Tiberius
as Varden Reynard
as Uncle Alp
as Eyvind
as Eyvind
as Valobra
