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).
Minority Report
(Director Lamar Burgess [Pre-Crime])
The Seventh Seal
(Antonius Block)
Wild Strawberries
(Henrik Åkerman)
Hostile Waters
(Admiral Chernavin)
Snow Falling on Cedars
(Nels Gudmundsson)
Dune
(Doctor Kynes)
Max von Sydow
(Self (archive footage))
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(Jesus)
Until the End of the World
(Henry Farber)
Needful Things
(Leland Gaunt)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Papinou)
Flash Gordon
(The Emperor Ming)
Intact
(Samuel)
Awakenings
(Peter Ingham)
Pelle the Conqueror
(Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand)
Ring of the Nibelungs
(Eyvind)
Robin Hood
(Sir Walter Loxley)
Hannah and Her Sisters
(Frederick)
Rush Hour 3
(Varden Reynard)
Shutter Island
(Dr. Naehring)
Exorcist II: The Heretic
(Father Lankester Merrin)
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
(Self)
Through a Glass Darkly
(Martin)
Dreamscape
(Paul Novotny)
A Look at Liv
(Self)
The Virgin Spring
(Töre)
The Final Inquiry
(Tiberius)
Three Days of the Condor
(G. Joubert)
A Kiss Before Dying
(Thor Carlsson)
The Ultimate Warrior
(Baron)
What Dreams May Come
(The Tracker)
March or Die
(François Marneau)
Citizen X
(Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky)
Europa
(Narrator (voice))
Judge Dredd
(Chief Justice Fargo)
Shame
(Jan Rosenberg)
The Exorcist
(Father Lankester Merrin)
Druids
(Guttuart)
Strange Brew
(Brewmeister Smith)
Conan the Barbarian
(King Osric)
Solomon Kane
(Josiah Kane)
Emotional Arithmetic
(Jakob Bronski)
The Emigrants
(Karl Oskar)
A Man and His Dog
(Le commandant)
The Best Intentions
(Johan Åkerblom)
The Magician
(Albert Emanuel Vogler)
Winter Light
(Jonas Persson)
Never Say Never Again
(Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
Tuschinski's Dream
The New Land
(Karl Oskar)
The Passion of Anna
(Andreas Winkelman)
Hawaii
(Abner Hale)
Brink of Life
(Harry Andersson)
Heidi
(Uncle Alp)
Illustrious Corpses
(Supreme Court President)
Minns ni?
((archive footage))
The Fascination
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
(Self (archive footage))
Private Confessions
(Jacob)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
(Self)
The Kremlin Letter
(Colonel Kosnov)
The Apple War
(Roy Lindberg)
The Quiller Memorandum
(Oktober)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
(The Renter)
The Desert of the Tartars
(Cap. Ortiz)
Sleepless
(Moretti)
Miss Julie
(Groom)
Escape to Victory
(Major Karl von Steiner)
Hour of the Wolf
(Johan Borg)
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
(Le docteur Dusseldorf)
Delblanc
(Narrator (voice))
Duet for One
(Dr. Louis Feldman)
The Night Visitor
(Salem)
Brass Target
(Shelley Martin Webber)
The Flight of the Eagle
(Salomon August Andrée)
Light Keeps Me Company
(Self)
Steppenwolf
(Harry Haller)
Code Name: Emerald
(Jürgen Brausch)
Hidden Children
(Valobra)
Voyage of the Damned
(Captain Schroeder)
Och ge oss skuggorna
(Eugene O'Neill)
Black Journal
(Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal)
Solomon
(Davide)
Hamsun
(Knut Hamsun)
Heart of a Dog
(Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski)
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
(Self - Father Merrin)
Ghostbusters II
(Vigo (voice) (uncredited))
The Touch
(Andreas Vergerus)
The Reward
(Scott Swenson)
The Soldier's Tale
(The Devil)
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
(Self)
Depth Solitude
(Narrator (voice))
Branded
(Marketing Guru)
Foxtrot
(Larsen)
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
(The Father)
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
(Self (archive footage))
A che punto è la notte
(Arcivescovo di Torino)
The Bachelor
(Von Schleheim)
The Wolf at the Door
(August Strindberg)
The Silent Touch
(Henry Kesdi)
Only a Mother
(Nils)
The Mistress
(The Man)
Jerusalem
(Vicar)
Target Eagle
(Coronel O'Donnell)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
(Lor San Tekka)
Father
(Joe Mueller)
Red King, White Knight
(Szaz)
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
(Self)
The Right to Love
(Bergman)
Ingen mans kvinna
(Olof)
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
(The Father)
Stjärnbilder
((archive footage))
Samson and Delilah
(Sidka)
Here Is Your Life
(Smålands-Pelle)
The Ox
(Vicar)
Black Palm Trees
(Gustav Olofsson)
Venetian Lies
(Marcello Herrighe)
Interlude in the Marshland
(Alex Kvist)
Let Poland Be Poland
(Self - Co-Host)
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
(Hunter)
Spion 503
(Horst, Gestapo-mand)
The Letters
(Celeste van Exem)
The Second Victory
(Dr. Huber)
Hurricane
(Dr. Danielsson)
The First, the Last
(Le croque-mort)
Rabies
(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
(Papa Clemente VII)
Starring Sigmund Freud
Kojak: The Belarus File
(Peter Barak)
Made in Sweden
(Magnus Rud)
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
(Father Siemes)
Kursk
(Admiral Vladimir Petrenko)
The Repenter
(Spinola)
4 x 4
(Kvist)
The Princess and the Pauper
(Epos)
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
(Dr. Alistair Conis)
The Diary of Anne Frank
(Otto Frank)
Morfars resa
(Simon S.L. Fromm)
Onkel Vanja
(The Professor)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
(Freud)
The Last Norwegian Troll
(The Last Norweigian Troll (voice))
The Atlantic
(Narrator (voice))
Ingmar Bergman
(Self)
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
(Self)
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
(Narrator (voice))
Embassy
(Gorenko)
The Wolfman
(Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited))
Circle of Passions
(Carlo di Vilalfratti)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
(Self)
The Wedding Day
(Anders Frost)
Behind the Moomins
(Narrator (voice))
Death Watch
(Gerald Mortenhoe)
Time is Money
(Joe Kaufman)
The Broken Mirror
(Matthew Lawrence)
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
(Self)
Samson and Delilah
(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
Echoes of the Past
(Nikolas Andreou (Aged))
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
(Voice)
The Minister of Uddarbo
(Gustaf Ömark)
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
(Narrator (voice))
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
(Sigmund Freud)
The Tudors
(Cardinal Von Waldburg)
The Last Place on Earth
(Fridtjof Nansen)
Radetzky March
(Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje)
Game of Thrones
(Three-Eyed Raven)
La principessa e il povero
(Epos)
Quo Vadis?
(Petrus)
Christopher Columbus
(Re Giovanni del Portogallo)
Gösta Berlings saga
(Melchior Sinclaire)
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
(Tiberio)
Professione fantasma
(Psicoanalista dell’aldilà)
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
(Self)
A che punto è la notte
(Arcivescovo di Torino)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
(Sigmund Freud)
The Simpsons
(Klaus Ziegler (voice))
The Guldbagge Awards
(Self - Best Director winner)
The Guldbagge Awards
(Self - Host)
The Guldbagge Awards
(Self - Best Actor winner)
Nuremberg
(Samuel Rosenman)
The Emigrants
(Karl Oskar)
Ring of the Nibelungs
(Eyvind)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Nominee/Presenter)
