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).
185 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 185
Game of Thrones
2011
The Simpsons
1989
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Tudors
2007
Shutter Island
2010
The Exorcist
1973
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Grimme Award
1964
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Minority Report
2002
Dune
1984
Conan the Barbarian
1982
Robin Hood
2010
Rush Hour 3
2007
Judge Dredd
1995
Awakenings
1990
Never Say Never Again
1983
Ghostbusters II
1989
What Dreams May Come
1998
Nuremberg
2000
The Seventh Seal
1957
Solomon Kane
2009
Three Days of the Condor
1975
The Guldbagge Awards
1981
Flash Gordon
1980
Escape to Victory
1981
Quo Vadis?
1985
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Wild Strawberries
1957
Ring of the Nibelungs
2004
Kursk
2018
Dreamscape
1984
The Last Place on Earth
1985
Until the End of the World
1991
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Needful Things
1993
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
A Kiss Before Dying
1991
Ring of the Nibelungs
2004
Christopher Columbus
1985
March or Die
1977
Solomon
1997
The Virgin Spring
1960
Europa
1991
Citizen X
1995
Hour of the Wolf
1968
Intacto
2001
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
La principessa e il povero
1997
Voyage of the Damned
1976
Brass Target
1978
Solomon
1997
Through a Glass Darkly
1961
Pelle the Conqueror
1987
Heidi
2005
Winter Light
1963
Sleepless
2001
Hostile Waters
1997
Radetzky March
1995
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
Palme
2012
Shame
1968
Lumière & Company
1995
Light Keeps Me Company
2000
Hawaii
1966
Death Watch
1980
Professione fantasma
1998
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
2000
Druids
2001
The Emigrants
1971
The Emigrants
1974
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974
The Kremlin Letter
1970
The Best Intentions
1992
Branded
2012
The Magician
1958
The Letters
2014
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007
A che punto è la notte
1994
Code Name: Emerald
1985
The Ultimate Warrior
1975
The Passion of Anna
1969
Duet for One
1986
Strange Brew
1983
Foxtrot
1976
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
Hurricane
1979
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
1975
Miss Julie
1951
Samson and Delilah
1984
I Am Divine
2014
Echoes of the Past
2021
The Final Inquiry
2007
The Touch
1971
The Night Visitor
1971
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
1998
Gösta Berlings saga
1986
Illustrious Corpses
1976
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990
Destination Dune
1983
Black Journal
1977
The Ox
1991
The Flight of the Eagle
1982
Steppenwolf
1974
Red King, White Knight
1989
Brink of Life
1958
The New Land
1972
The Apple War
1971
The Princess and the Pauper
1997
Jerusalem
1996
The Second Victory
1987
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
2000
Hamsun
1996
Emotional Arithmetic
2008
The Bachelor
1990
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
2013
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
Ingmar Bergman
1972
Stjärnbilder
1995
The Wolf at the Door
1986
A Man and His Dog
2009
Here Is Your Life
1966
Rabies
1958
The Repenter
1985
Only a Mother
1949
The Resurrection of Christ
2026
Heart of a Dog
1976
The Silent Touch
1992
Kojak The Belarus File
1985
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1962
Private Confessions
1996
Target Eagle
1982
Father
1990
The Reward
1965
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
1964
The First, the Last
2016
Black Palm Trees
1968
Morfars resa
1993
Behind the Moomins
2010
Minns ni?
1993
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
1989
The Mistress
1962
The Wedding Day
1960
Venetian Lies
1981
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
1988
The Right to Love
1956
Onkel Vanja
1994
The Soldier's Tale
1984
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
4 x 4
1965
Hidden Children
2004
Embassy
1972
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
2012
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
1957
A Look at Liv
1979
The Broken Mirror
1975
Made in Sweden
1969
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
1968
Max von Sydow
2017
No Man's Woman
1953
The Atlantic
1995
She Dances Alone
1981
The Last Norwegian Troll
2010
The Minister of Uddarbo
1957
Time is Money
1994
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
1991
Circle of Passions
1983
Interlude in the Marshland
1965
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
1995
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
1982
Their Frozen Dream
1997
Och ge oss skuggorna
1993
Delblanc
1996
Spion 503
1958
Tuschinski's Dream
2017
Le dernier civil
1984
The Human Factor
1988
Depth Solitude
1995
