Max von Sydow
150 movies · 17 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 10, 1929
- Died
- Mar 8, 2020 (age 90)
- Place of birth
- Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
- Also known as
- Max Carl Adolf von Sydow · Max Von Sydow · Макс фон Сюдов · Carl Adolf von Sydow
Biography
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.
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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).
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Max von Sydow: movies and TV shows
Acting (166)
- 2026
- 2021 Echoes of the Past
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
- 2018 Kursk
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
- 2017
- 2016 The First, the Last
as Le croque-mort
- 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Lor San Tekka
- 2014 The Letters
as Celeste van Exem
- 2013 Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
as Dr. Alistair Conis
- 2012
- 2012 Branded
as Marketing Guru
- 2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as The Renter
- 2011
- 2010 The Last Norwegian Troll
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
- 2010 Behind the Moomins
as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 Robin Hood
as Sir Walter Loxley
- 2010 Shutter Island
as Dr. Naehring
- 2009 Solomon Kane
as Josiah Kane
- 2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink
as Le docteur Dusseldorf
- 2009 A Man and His Dog
as Le commandant
- 2008 Emotional Arithmetic
as Jakob Bronski
- 2007 Rush Hour 3
as Varden Reynard
- 2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Papinou
- 2007 The Final Inquiry
as Tiberius
- 2007
- 2007
- 2005 Heidi
as Uncle Alp
- 2004
- 2004 Ring of the Nibelungs
as Eyvind
- 2004 Hidden Children
as Valobra
- 2002 Minority Report
as Director Lamar Burgess
- 2001 Intacto
as Samuel
- 2001 Druids
as Guttuart
- 2001 Sleepless
as Moretti
- 2000
- 2000
- 1999 Snow Falling on Cedars
as Nels Gudmundsson
- 1998 What Dreams May Come
as The Tracker
- 1998
- 1997 Solomon
as Davide
- 1997
- 1997 The Princess and the Pauper
as Epos
- 1997
- 1997 Hostile Waters
as Admiral Chernavin
- 1997 Their Frozen Dream
as S.A. Andrée (voice)
- 1996 Private Confessions
as Jacob
- 1996 Jerusalem
as Vicar
- 1996 Hamsun
as Knut Hamsun
- 1996 Delblanc
as Narrator (voice)
- 1995
- 1995 Lumière & Company
as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
- 1995 Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 Stjärnbilder
as (archive footage)
- 1995 Judge Dredd
as Chief Justice Fargo
- 1995 The Atlantic
as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 Citizen X
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
- 1995 Anders Zorn - Med egna ord
as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 Depth Solitude
as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 Onkel Vanja
as The Professor
- 1994
- 1994 Time is Money
as Joe Kaufman
- 1993 Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
- 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 Silent Touch
as Henry Kesdi
- 1992 The Best Intentions
as Johan Åkerblom
- 1992
- 1991 The Ox
as Vicar
- 1991 Until the End of the World
as Henry Farber
- 1991 East of the Sun, West of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
- 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 Pope Clement VII
- 1990 The Bachelor
as Von Schleheim
- 1989
- 1989 Red King, White Knight
as Szaz
- 1989 Ghostbusters II
as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
- 1988 Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
as Voice
- 1988
- 1987 Pelle the Conqueror
as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
- 1987 The Second Victory
as Dr. Huber
- 1986 Duet for One
as Dr. Louis Feldman
- 1986 The Wolf at the Door
as August Strindberg
- 1986
- 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
as Frederick
- 1985 The Repenter
as Spinola
- 1985 Code Name: Emerald
as Jürgen Brausch
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985 Kojak: The Belarus File
as Peter Barak
- 1984 Dune
as Doctor Kynes
- 1984 The Soldier's Tale
as The Devil (voice)
- 1984 Le dernier civil
as Gérard Bauerle
- 1984 Dreamscape
as Paul Novotny
- 1984 Samson and Delilah
as Sidka
- 1983 Never Say Never Again
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
- 1983 Strange Brew
as Brewmeister Smith
- 1983 Circle of Passions
as Carlo di Vilalfratti
- 1982 Target Eagle
as Coronel O'Donnell
- 1982 The Flight of the Eagle
as Salomon August Andrée
- 1982
- 1982 Conan the Barbarian
as King Osric
- 1981 Venetian Lies
as Marcello Herrighe
- 1981 Escape to Victory
as Major Karl von Steiner
- 1981 She Dances Alone
as Nijinsky (voice)
- 1980 Flash Gordon
as The Emperor Ming
- 1980 Death Watch
as Gerald Mortenhoe
- 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 Heart of a Dog
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
- 1975 The Ultimate Warrior
as Baron
- 1975 Three Days of the Condor
as G. Joubert
- 1975 The Broken Mirror
as Matthew Lawrence
- 1975 Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
as The Father
- 1974 Steppenwolf
as Harry Haller
- 1974
- 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 The Quiller Memorandum
as Oktober
- 1966 Hawaii
as Abner Hale
- 1965 The Reward
as Scott Swenson
- 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Jesus
- 1965 4 x 4
as Kvist
- 1965 Interlude in the Marshland
as Alex Kvist
- 1963 Winter Light
as Jonas Persson
- 1962 Wonderful Adventures of Nils
as The Father
- 1962 The Mistress
as The Man
- 1961 Through a Glass Darkly
as Martin
- 1960 The Wedding Day
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 The Minister of Uddarbo
as Gustaf Ömark
- 1957 Wild Strawberries
as Åkerman
- 1957 Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
as Hunter
- 1957 The Seventh Seal
as Antonius Block
- 1956 The Right to Love
as Bergman
- 1953 No Man's Woman
as Olof
- 1951 Miss Julie
as Groom
- 1949 Only a Mother
as Nils
Behind the camera (1)
- 1988 Katinka
Director
Talk shows and appearances (21)
- Upcoming
- 2017
- 2014
- 2012
- 2012
- 2011
- 2000
- 2000
- 1998
- 1989
- 1985
- 1983
- 1982
- 1981 The Guldbagge Awards
4 episodes
- 1979
- 1974
- 1972
- 1968
- 1964
- 1964 Grimme Award
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
1 episode