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:
- 128
- First Appeared:
- In the movie She Dances Alone
- Latest Project:
- Movie Kursk 2018-11-07
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | She Dances Alone | 2019 | |
| Movie | Kursk | 2018-11-07 | |
| Movie | The First, the Last | Le croque-mort | 2016-01-27 |
| Movie | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Lor San Tekka | 2015-12-15 |
| Movie | The Letters | Celeste van Exem | 2015-12-04 |
| Movie | Branded | Marketing Guru | 2012-09-06 |
| Series | Game of Thrones | Three-eyed raven | 2011-04-17 |
| Movie | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | The Renter | 2011-12-24 |
| Movie | Shutter Island | Dr. Jeremiah Naehring | 2010-02-14 |
| 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 | Robin Hood | Sir Walter Loxley | 2010-05-12 |
| Movie | Solomon Kane | Josiah Kane | 2009-09-16 |
| Movie | Oscar and the Lady in Pink | Dr Dusseldorf | 2009-11-15 |
| Movie | A Man and His Dog | Le commandant | 2008-11-13 |
| Series | The Tudors | Cardinal Von Waldburg | 2007-04-01 |
| Movie | Rush Hour 3 | Varden Reynard | 2007-08-08 |
| Movie | Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning | Jakob Bronski | 2007-09-05 |
| Movie | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Papinou | 2007-05-22 |
| 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 | 2004-06-06 |
| 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 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid | Freud | 2000-09-19 |
| 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 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Nels Gudmundsson | 1999-12-22 |
| Movie | What Dreams May Come | The Tracker | 1998-10-02 |
| Movie | The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist | Himself - 'Fr. Merrin' | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Pauper | Epos | 1997-06-30 |
| Movie | Hostile Waters | Admiral Chernavin | 1997-10-18 |
| Movie | Solomon | Davide | 1997-12-15 |
| Movie | Private Confessions | Jacob | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | Hamsun | Knut Hamsun | 1996-04-19 |
| Movie | Citizen X | Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky | 1995-02-25 |
| Movie | Judge Dredd | Chief Justice Fargo | 1995-06-30 |
| Series | Radetzky March | Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje | 1995-12-27 |
| Movie | Jerusalem | Vicar | 1995-09-05 |
| Movie | A che punto è la notte | Arcivescovo di Torino | 1994-04-07 |
| Movie | Needful Things | Leland Gaunt | 1993-08-27 |
| Movie | Europa | 1992-05-22 | |
| 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 | 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 | Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes | Father Siemes | 1990-08-06 |
| Movie | Father | Joe Mueller | 1990-08-16 |
| 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 | The Second Victory | Dr. Huber | 1987-06-04 |
| Movie | Duet for One | Dr. Louis Feldman | 1987-02-01 |
| Movie | The Wolf at the Door | August Strindberg | 1986-09-05 |
| Movie | Hannah and Her Sisters | Frederick | 1986-02-07 |
| 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 | The Ice Pirates | 1984-03-16 | |
| Movie | The Soldiers's Tale | The devil | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | Samson and Delilah | Sidka | 1984-03-31 |
| Movie | Target Eagle | 1984-04-26 | |
| Movie | Le dernier civil | Gérard Bauerle | 1984-11-04 |
| Movie | Dreamscape | Doctor Paul Novotny | 1984-08-15 |
| Movie | Dune | Dr. Liet Kynes | 1984-12-14 |
| Movie | Strange Brew | Brewmeister Smith | 1983-08-26 |
| Movie | Never Say Never Again | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | 1983-10-07 |
| Movie | The Flight of the Eagle | Salomon August Andrée | 1982-08-26 |
| Movie | Conan the Barbarian | King Osric | 1982-04-02 |
| Movie | Escape to Victory | Major Karl von Steiner | 1981-06-17 |
| Movie | Flash Gordon | The Emperor Ming | 1980-09-01 |
| Movie | Death Watch | Gerald Mortenhoe | 1980-01-23 |
| Movie | Hurricane | Dr. Bascomb | 1979-04-12 |
| Movie | Footloose | Marcello Herrighe | 1979-10-11 |
| Movie | Brass Target | Shelley Martin Webber | 1978-12-22 |
| Movie | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Father Lancaster Merrin | 1977-06-17 |
| Movie | March or Die | François Marneau | 1977-09-08 |
| Movie | Black Journal | Capo della polizia | 1977-01-01 |
| Movie | The Desert of the Tartars | Cap. Ortiz | 1976-01-01 |
| Movie | Heart of a Dog | Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski | 1976-01-23 |
| Movie | Illustrious Corpses | Präsident des Obersten Gerichtshofs | 1976-02-12 |
| Movie | Voyage of the Damned | Captain Schroeder | 1976-12-22 |
| Movie | Foxtrot | Larsen | 1976-03-01 |
| Movie | The Ultimate Warrior | Baron | 1975-01-01 |
| Movie | Three Days of the Condor | G. Joubert | 1975-09-24 |
| Movie | The Softening of the Egg | The Father | 1975-03-17 |
| 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 Apple War | Roy Lindberg | 1971-12-18 |
| Movie | The Emigrants | Karl Oskar | 1971-03-08 |
| Movie | The Touch | Andreas Vergerus | 1971-07-14 |
| Movie | The Kremlin Letter | Colonel Kosnov | 1970-02-01 |
| Movie | The Passion of Anna | Andreas Winkelman | 1969-11-10 |
| Movie | Made in Sweden | Magnus Rud | 1969-03-17 |
| Movie | Hour of the Wolf | Johan Borg | 1968-01-01 |
| Movie | Shame | Jan Rosenberg | 1968-09-29 |
| Movie | Black Palm Trees | Gustav Olofsson | 1968-09-26 |
| Movie | Hawaii | Rev. Abner Hale | 1966-10-10 |
| Movie | Here Is Your Life | Smålands-Pelle | 1966-12-26 |
| Movie | The Quiller Memorandum | Oktober | 1966-11-10 |
| Movie | The Reward | Scott Swenson | 1965-09-15 |
| Movie | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Jesus | 1965-02-15 |
| Movie | Interlude in the Marshland | Alex Kvist | 1965-02-22 |
| Movie | Winter Light | Jonas Persson | 1963-02-11 |
| Movie | Wonderful Adventures of Nils | The Father | 1962-09-12 |
| Movie | The Mistress | The Man | 1962-02-19 |
| Movie | Through a Glass Darkly | Martin | 1961-10-16 |
| Movie | The Virgin Spring | Töre | 1960-02-08 |
| Movie | Brink of Life | Harry Andersson, Stinas man | 1958-03-31 |
| Movie | Rabies | Bo Stensson Svenningson | 1958-11-07 |
| Movie | Spion 503 | Horst, Gestapo-mand | 1958-08-29 |
| Movie | The Magician | Albert Emanuel Vogler | 1958-12-26 |
| Movie | The Seventh Seal | Antonius Block | 1957-02-16 |
| Movie | Wild Strawberries | Henrik Åkerman | 1957-12-26 |
| Movie | Mr. Sleeman Is Coming | The hunter | 1957-04-18 |
| Movie | Rätten att älska | Bergman | 1956-02-27 |
| Movie | Miss Julie | Groom | 1951-06-28 |
| Movie | Only a Mother | Nils | 1949-10-31 |
