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Max von Sydow

Actor, Director
Died March 8, 2020 (90 years)
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 & Shows on Plex
  • Solomon Kane
  • Religulous
  • The Command
  • Strange Brew
  • Dreamscape
  • Intacto
  • March or Die
  • Voyage of the Damned
  • Echoes of the Past
  • Foxtrot
Known For
  • Shutter Island
  • Minority Report
  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Exorcist
  • Robin Hood
  • Conan the Barbarian
  • Rush Hour 3
  • Needful Things
  • The Virgin Spring
  • What Dreams May Come
  • Never Say Never Again
  • Flash Gordon
  • Hour of the Wolf
  • Judge Dredd
  • Game of Thrones
  • Three Days of the Condor
  • Solomon Kane
  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • Victory
  • The Magician
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • The Passion of Anna
  • Dreamscape

Filmography

2022
Moonage Daydream · as Antonius Block
2021
Echoes of the Past · as Nikolas Andreou (aged)
2018
The Command · as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
2016
The First, the Last · as Le Croque-Mort
2015
2014
The Letters · as Celeste Van Exem
2013
Dragons 3D · as Dr. Alistair Conis
2012
Branded · as Marketing Guru
2011
2011
Game of Thrones (TV Series) · as Three-Eyed Raven
2010
2010
Robin Hood · as Sir Walter Loxley
2010
Shutter Island · as Dr. Naehring
2010
The Wolfman · as Passenger On Train (director's Cut) (uncredited)
2009
Solomon Kane · as Josiah Kane
2009
Oscar and the Lady in Pink · as Le Docteur Dusseldorf
2009
2008
A Man and His Dog · as Le Commandant
2008
2007
Emotional Arithmetic · as Jakob Bronski
2007
Rush Hour 3 · as Varden Reynard
2007
2007
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII (TV Series) · as Tiberio
2007
The Tudors (TV Series) · as Cardinal Von Waldburg
2006
The Final Inquiry · as Tiberius
2006
Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon · as Thor Carlsson
2005
Heidi · as Uncle Alp
2004
Curse of the Ring · as Eyvind
2004
Ring of the Nibelungs (TV Series) · as Eyvind
2004
Night of the Living Dorks · as Taufvater Merrin
2004
Hidden Children · as Valobra
2002
Queen: Greatest Video Hits 1 · as The Emperor Ming (segment "flash")
2002
Minority Report · as Director Lamar Burgess [pre-Crime]
2002
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (TV Series) · as Sigmund Freud
2001
Intacto · as Samuel
2001
Druids · as Guttuart
2001
Sleepless · as Moretti
2000
2000
Nuremberg (TV Series) · as Samuel Rosenman
1999
Snow Falling on Cedars · as Nels Gudmundsson
1998
What Dreams May Come · as The Tracker
1998
Professione fantasma (TV Series) · as Psicoanalista Dell’aldilà
1998
Solomon · as Davide
1997
Solomon (TV Series) · as David
1997
1997
Hostile Waters · as Admiral Chernavin
1997
En frusen dröm · as S.a. Andrée (voice)
1996
1996
Samson and Delilah · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1996
Jerusalem · as Vicar
1996
Hamsun · as Knut Hamsun
1996
Truck Stop · as Cast
1995
Lumière and Company · as Jacob (segment "liv Ullman")
1995
Atlanten · as Narrator (voice)
1995
Judge Dredd · as Chief Justice Fargo
1995
Citizen X · as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
1994
Onkel Vanja · as The Professor
1994
Radetzkymarsch (TV Series) · as Baron Franz Von Trotta Und Sipolje
1994
A che punto è la notte (TV Series) · as Arcivescovo Di Torino
1994
A che punto è la notte · as Arcivescovo Di Torino
1993
Needful Things · as Leland Gaunt
1993
Morfars resa · as Simon S.l. Fromm
1993
Och ge oss skuggorna · as Eugene O'neill
1992
The Touch · as Henry Kesdi
1992
The Best Intentions · as Johan Åkerblom
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series) · as Sigmund Freud
1991
The Best Intentions (TV Series) · as Johan Åkerblom
1991
The Ox · as Vicar
1991
Until the End of the World · as Henry Farber
1991
Europa · as Narrator (voice)
1991
A Kiss Before Dying · as Thor Carlsson
1990
Awakenings · as Peter Ingham
1990
Father · as Joe Mueller
1990
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes · as Father Siemes
1990
Cellini: A Violent Life · as Papa Clemente Vii
1990
The Bachelor · as Von Schleheim
1989
The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Klaus Ziegler (voice)
1989
1989
Ghostbusters II · as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
1989
Carl Jung: Wisdom of the Dream (TV Series) · as Carl Jung
1987
Pelle the Conqueror · as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
1987
The Second Victory · as Dr. Huber
1986
Duet for One · as Dr. Louis Feldman
1986
Oviri · as August Strindberg
1986
Dagbok genom ett sekel · as Narrator
1986
Gösta Berlings Saga (TV Series) · as Melchior Sinclaire
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters · as Frederick
1985
Screen One (TV Series) · as Admiral Chernavin
1985
The Repenter · as Spinola
1985
Code Name: Emerald · as Jürgen Brausch
1985
Christopher Columbus (TV Series) · as Re Giovanni Del Portogallo
1985
Quo Vadis? (TV Series) · as Petrus
1985
The Last Place on Earth (TV Series) · as Fridtjof Nansen
1985
Kojak: The Belarus File · as Peter Barak
1984
Dune · as Doctor Kynes
1984
Terror in the Aisles · as Father Merrin
1984
Dreamscape · as Paul Novotny
1984
Samson and Delilah · as Sidka
1984
The Soldier's Tale · as The Devil
1983
Never Say Never Again · as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1983
Strange Brew · as Brewmeister Smith
1983
Le cercle des passions · as Carlo Di Vilalfratti
1982
Jugando con la muerte · as Coronel O'donnell
1982
The Flight of the Eagle · as Salomon August Andrée
1982
1982
Conan the Barbarian · as King Osric
1981
Victory · as Major Karl Von Steiner
1980
Flash Gordon · as The Emperor Ming
1980
Death Watch · as Gerald Mortenhoe
1979
Venetian Lies · as Marcello Herrighe
1979
Hurricane · as Dr. Danielsson
1978
Brass Target · as Shelley Martin Webber
1977
Black Journal · as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
1977
March or Die · as François Marneau
1977
Exorcist II: The Heretic · as Father Lankester Merrin
1976
Voyage of the Damned · as Captain Schroeder
1976
The Desert of the Tartars · as Cap. Ortiz
1976
Foxtrot · as Larsen
1976
Illustrious Corpses · as Supreme Court President
1976
Dog's Heart · as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
1975
1975
Three Days of the Condor · as G. Joubert
1975
Trompe l'oeil · as Matthew Lawrence
1975
The Softening of the Egg · as The Father
1974
Steppenwolf · as Harry Haller
1974
The Emigrants (TV Series) · as Karl Oskar
1973
The Exorcist · as Father Lankester Merrin
1972
Embassy · as Gorenko
1972
The New Land · as Karl Oskar
1971
The Apple War · as Roy Lindberg
1971
The Touch · as Andreas Vergerus
1971
The Emigrants · as Karl Oskar
1971
The Night Visitor · as Salem
1970
The Kremlin Letter · as Colonel Kosnov
1969
The Passion of Anna · as Andreas Winkelman
1969
Made in Sweden · as Magnus Rud
1968
Shame · as Jan Rosenberg
1968
Black Palm Trees · as Gustav Olofsson
1968
Hour of the Wolf · as Johan Borg
1967
The Diary of Anne Frank · as Otto Frank
1966
Here Is Your Life · as Smålands-Pelle
1966
1966
Hawaii · as Abner Hale
1965
The Reward · as Scott Swenson
1965
1965
1965
4 x 4 · as Kvist
1964
NET Playhouse (TV Series) · as Cast
1963
Winter Light · as Jonas Persson
1962
The Swedish Mistress · as The Man
1962
1961
1960
Bröllopsdagen · as Anders Frost
1960
The Virgin Spring · as Töre
1958
The Magician · as Albert Emanuel Vogler
1958
Rabies · as Bo Stensson Svenningson
1958
Spion 503 · as Horst, Gestapo-Mand
1958
Brink of Life · as Harry Andersson
1957
Wild Strawberries · as Henrik Åkerman
1957
The Minister of Uddarbo · as Gustaf Ömark
1957
1957
The Seventh Seal · as Antonius Block
1956
Rätten att älska · as Bergman
1953
1951
Miss Julie · as Groom
1949
Only a Mother · as Nils

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