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).
Filmography (34)
Kursk
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Wolfman
Robin Hood
Shutter Island
Solomon Kane
Rush Hour 3
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ring of the Nibelungs
Minority Report
What Dreams May Come
Judge Dredd
Citizen X
Needful Things
Until the End of the World
Awakenings
Ghostbusters II
Hannah and Her Sisters
Dreamscape
Dune
Strange Brew
Never Say Never Again
Conan the Barbarian
Escape to Victory
Flash Gordon
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Voyage of the Damned
Three Days of the Condor
The Exorcist
The Quiller Memorandum
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Seventh Seal
