Max von Sydow
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Max von Sydow ( born 10 April 1929) is a Swedish actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He has 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max von Sydow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Apr 10, 1929 In Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 129
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Only a Mother 1949-10-31
- Latest Project:
- Movie Kursk 2018-11-07
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Kursk | 2018-11-07 | |
| Movie | The First, the Last | Le croque-mort | 2016-01-27 |
| Movie | The Letters | Celeste van Exem | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Lor San Tekka | 2015-12-15 |
| Movie | Branded | Marketing Guru | 2012-09-06 |
| Movie | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | The Renter | 2011-12-24 |
| Series | Game of Thrones | Three-eyed raven | 2011-04-17 |
| Movie | Shutter Island | Dr. Jeremiah Naehring | 2010-02-14 |
| Movie | Robin Hood | Sir Walter Loxley | 2010-05-12 |
| Movie | The Last Norwegian Troll | The Last Norweigian Troll (voice) | 2010-08-21 |
| Movie | Moomins and the Comet Chase | Narrator (voice) | 2010-08-06 |
| Movie | Solomon Kane | Josiah Kane | 2009-09-16 |
| Movie | Oscar and the Lady in Pink | Dr Dusseldorf | 2009-11-15 |
| Movie | Emotional Arithmetic | Jakob Bronski | 2008-04-18 |
| Movie | A Man and His Dog | Le commandant | 2008-12-20 |
| Series | The Tudors | Cardinal Von Waldburg | 2007-04-01 |
| Movie | Rush Hour 3 | Varden Reynard | 2007-08-08 |
| Movie | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Papinou | 2007-05-23 |
| Series | Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King | 2006-03-27 | |
| Movie | The Final Inquiry | Tiberius | 2006-12-13 |
| Movie | Heidi | Uncle Alp | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Curse of the Ring | Eyvind | 2004-11-19 |
| Movie | Hidden Children | Valobra | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Minority Report | Director Lamar Burgess | 2002-06-20 |
| Movie | Sleepless | Moretti | 2001-01-05 |
| Movie | Intact | Samuel | 2001-11-06 |
| Movie | The Gaul | Guttuart | 2001-01-24 |
| Movie | Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' | Himself | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | 1939-1945: The Seven Years That Shook the World | 2000-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid | Freud | 2000-09-19 |
| Movie | Snow Falling on Cedars | Nels Gudmundsson | 1999-12-22 |
| Movie | The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist | Himself - 'Fr. Merrin' | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | What Dreams May Come | The Tracker | 1998-10-02 |
| Movie | Solomon | Davide | 1997-12-15 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Pauper | Epos | 1997-06-30 |
| Movie | Hostile Waters | Admiral Chernavin | 1997-10-18 |
| Movie | Hamsun | Knut Hamsun | 1996-04-19 |
| Movie | Private Confessions | Jacob | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | Judge Dredd | Chief Justice Fargo | 1995-06-30 |
| Movie | Citizen X | Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky | 1995-02-25 |
| Movie | Jerusalem | Vicar | 1995-09-05 |
| Series | Radetzky March | Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje | 1995-12-27 |
| Movie | A che punto è la notte | Arcivescovo di Torino | 1994-04-07 |
| Movie | Needful Things | Leland Gaunt | 1993-08-27 |
| Movie | The Silent Touch | Henry Kesdi | 1992-09-30 |
| Movie | The Best Intentions | Johan Åkerblom | 1992-05-24 |
| Movie | A Kiss Before Dying | Thor Carlsson | 1991-04-26 |
| Movie | Europa | Narrator (voice) | 1991-05-11 |
| Movie | Until the End of the World | Henry Farber | 1991-09-12 |
| Movie | The Ox | Vicar | 1991-11-22 |
| Movie | The bachelor | Von Schleheim | 1990-03-29 |
| Movie | Una vita scellerata | Papa Clemente VII | 1990-05-02 |
| Movie | Father | Joe Mueller | 1990-08-16 |
| Movie | Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes | Father Siemes | 1990-08-06 |
| Movie | Awakenings | Dr. Peter Ingham | 1990-12-04 |
| Movie | Ghostbusters II | Vigo (voice) | 1989-06-15 |
| Movie | Red King, White Knight | Szaz | 1989-11-25 |
| Movie | Pelle the Conqueror | Lassefar | 1987-12-25 |
| Movie | Duet for One | Dr. Louis Feldman | 1987-02-01 |
| Movie | The Second Victory | Dr. Huber | 1987-06-04 |
| Movie | Hannah and Her Sisters | Frederick | 1986-02-07 |
| Movie | The Wolf at the Door | August Strindberg | 1986-09-05 |
| Series | Gösta Berlings saga | Melchior Sinclaire | 1986-03-10 |
| Movie | Kojak: The Belarus File | Peter Barak | 1985-02-16 |
| Series | The Last Place on Earth | Fridtjof Nansen | 1985-02-18 |
| Movie | Code Name: Emerald | Jürgen Brausch | 1985-09-07 |
| Movie | Samson and Delilah | Sidka | 1984-03-31 |
| Movie | The Soldiers's Tale | The devil | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | Target Eagle | Coronel O'Donnell | 1984-04-26 |
| Movie | The Ice Pirates | 1984-03-16 | |
| Movie | Dune | Dr. Liet Kynes | 1984-12-14 |
| Movie | Le dernier civil | Gérard Bauerle | 1984-11-04 |
| Movie | Dreamscape | Doctor Paul Novotny | 1984-08-15 |
| Movie | Strange Brew | Brewmeister Smith | 1983-08-26 |
| Movie | Never Say Never Again | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | 1983-10-07 |
| Movie | Conan the Barbarian | King Osric | 1982-04-02 |
| Movie | The Flight of the Eagle | Salomon August Andrée | 1982-08-26 |
| Movie | Escape to Victory | Major Karl von Steiner | 1981-06-17 |
| Movie | She Dances Alone | 1981-09-19 | |
| Movie | Death Watch | Gerald Mortenhoe | 1980-01-23 |
| Movie | Flash Gordon | The Emperor Ming | 1980-09-01 |
| Movie | Hurricane | Dr. Bascomb | 1979-04-12 |
| Movie | Footloose | Marcello Herrighe | 1979-10-11 |
| Movie | Brass Target | Shelley Martin Webber | 1978-12-22 |
| Movie | Black Journal | Capo della polizia | 1977-01-01 |
| Movie | March or Die | François Marneau | 1977-09-08 |
| Movie | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Father Lancaster Merrin | 1977-06-17 |
| Movie | The Desert of the Tartars | Cap. Ortiz | 1976-01-01 |
| Movie | Heart of a Dog | Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski | 1976-01-23 |
| Movie | Voyage of the Damned | Captain Schroeder | 1976-12-22 |
| Movie | Illustrious Corpses | Präsident des Obersten Gerichtshofs | 1976-02-12 |
| Movie | Foxtrot | Larsen | 1976-03-01 |
| Movie | The Softening of the Egg | The Father | 1975-03-17 |
| Movie | The Ultimate Warrior | Baron | 1975-10-02 |
| Movie | Three Days of the Condor | G. Joubert | 1975-09-24 |
| Movie | Steppenwolf | Harry Haller | 1974-01-01 |
| Movie | The Exorcist | Father Merrin | 1973-12-26 |
| Movie | The New Land | Karl-Oskar | 1972-01-01 |
| Movie | The Night Visitor | Salem | 1971-01-01 |
| Movie | The Emigrants | Karl Oskar | 1971-03-08 |
| Movie | The Touch | Andreas Vergerus | 1971-07-14 |
| Movie | The Apple War | Roy Lindberg | 1971-12-18 |
| Movie | The Kremlin Letter | Colonel Kosnov | 1970-02-01 |
| Movie | Made in Sweden | Magnus Rud | 1969-03-17 |
| Movie | The Passion of Anna | Andreas Winkelman | 1969-11-10 |
| Movie | Black Palm Trees | Gustav Olofsson | 1968-09-26 |
| Movie | Hour of the Wolf | Johan Borg | 1968-01-01 |
| Movie | Shame | Jan Rosenberg | 1968-09-29 |
| Movie | Hawaii | Rev. Abner Hale | 1966-10-10 |
| Movie | The Quiller Memorandum | Oktober | 1966-11-10 |
| Movie | Here Is Your Life | Smålands-Pelle | 1966-12-26 |
| Movie | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Jesus | 1965-02-15 |
| Movie | Interlude in the Marshland | Alex Kvist | 1965-02-22 |
| Movie | The Reward | Scott Swenson | 1965-09-15 |
| Movie | Winter Light | Jonas Persson | 1963-02-11 |
| Movie | The Mistress | The Man | 1962-02-19 |
| Movie | Wonderful Adventures of Nils | The Father | 1962-09-12 |
| Movie | Through a Glass Darkly | Martin | 1961-10-16 |
| Movie | The Virgin Spring | Töre | 1960-02-08 |
| Movie | Spion 503 | Horst, Gestapo-mand | 1958-08-29 |
| Movie | Brink of Life | Harry Andersson, Stinas man | 1958-03-31 |
| Movie | Rabies | Bo Stensson Svenningson | 1958-11-07 |
| Movie | The Magician | Albert Emanuel Vogler | 1958-12-26 |
| Movie | Mr. Sleeman Is Coming | The hunter | 1957-04-18 |
| Movie | The Seventh Seal | Antonius Block | 1957-02-16 |
| Movie | Wild Strawberries | Henrik Åkerman | 1957-12-26 |
| Movie | Rätten att älska | Bergman | 1956-02-27 |
| Movie | Miss Julie | Groom | 1951-06-28 |
| Movie | Only a Mother | Nils | 1949-10-31 |
