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).

Cast

Minority Report

Director Lamar Burgess

The Seventh Seal

Wild Strawberries

Admiral Chernavin

Snow Falling on Cedars

Nels Gudmundsson

Self (archive footage)

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Until the End of the World

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Emperor Ming

Pelle the Conqueror

Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand

Ring of the Nibelungs

Sir Walter Loxley

Hannah and Her Sisters

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Father Lankester Merrin

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

Through a Glass Darkly

The Virgin Spring

The Final Inquiry

Three Days of the Condor

A Kiss Before Dying

The Ultimate Warrior

What Dreams May Come

François Marneau

Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky

Narrator (voice)

Chief Justice Fargo

Father Lankester Merrin

Brewmeister Smith

Conan the Barbarian

Emotional Arithmetic

A Man and His Dog

The Best Intentions

Johan Åkerblom

Albert Emanuel Vogler

Never Say Never Again

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Tuschinski's Dream

The Passion of Anna

Andreas Winkelman

Harry Andersson

Illustrious Corpses

Supreme Court President

(archive footage)

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

Self (archive footage)

Private Confessions

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

The Kremlin Letter

The Quiller Memorandum

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

The Desert of the Tartars

Escape to Victory

Major Karl von Steiner

Hour of the Wolf

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Le docteur Dusseldorf

Narrator (voice)

Dr. Louis Feldman

The Night Visitor

Shelley Martin Webber

The Flight of the Eagle

Salomon August Andrée

Light Keeps Me Company

Code Name: Emerald

Jürgen Brausch

Hidden Children

Voyage of the Damned

Captain Schroeder

Och ge oss skuggorna

Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal

Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

Self - Father Merrin

Ghostbusters II

Vigo (voice) (uncredited)

Andreas Vergerus

The Soldier's Tale

The Devil (voice)

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

Narrator (voice)

Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story

The Wolf at the Door

August Strindberg

The Silent Touch

Coronel O'Donnell

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Red King, White Knight

Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter

The Right to Love

Ingen mans kvinna

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

(archive footage)

Samson and Delilah

Here Is Your Life

Smålands-Pelle

Black Palm Trees

Gustav Olofsson

Marcello Herrighe

Interlude in the Marshland

Let Poland Be Poland

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

Horst, Gestapo-mand

Celeste van Exem

The Second Victory

The First, the Last

Bo Stensson Svenningson

The Human Factor

Le dernier civil

Gérard Bauerle

Their Frozen Dream

S.A. Andrée (voice)

She Dances Alone

Nijinsky's voice

Cellini: A Violent Life

Pope Clement VII

Starring Sigmund Freud

Kojak The Belarus File

The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

Admiral Vladimir Petrenko

The Princess and the Pauper

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures

Dr. Alistair Conis

The Diary of Anne Frank

Simon S.L. Fromm

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

The Last Norwegian Troll

The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)

Narrator (voice)

An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman

Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer

Narrator (voice)

Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)

Circle of Passions

Carlo di Vilalfratti

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

The Wedding Day

Behind the Moomins

Narrator (voice)

Gerald Mortenhoe

The Broken Mirror

Matthew Lawrence

Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood

Echoes of the Past

Nikolas Andreou (Aged)

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

The Minister of Uddarbo

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Narrator (voice)

Destination Dune

Self (archive footage)

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Self - (archive footage)

Lumière & Company

Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")

Crew