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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Lund, Skåne län, Sweden, 1929-04-10

Died: 2020-03-08

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	Only a Mother	Nils	69
2	1951	Miss Julie	Groom	65
3	1953	Ingen mans kvinna	Olof	40
4	1956	The Right to Love	Bergman	48
5	1957	The Seventh Seal	Antonius Block	82
6	1957	Mr. Sleeman Is Coming	Hunter	56
7	1957	Wild Strawberries	Åkerman	81
8	1957	The Minister of Uddarbo	Gustaf Ömark	0
9	1958	Brink of Life	Harry Andersson	75
10	1958	Spion 503	Horst, Gestapo-mand	40
11	1958	Rabies	Bo Stensson Svenningson	75
12	1958	The Magician	Albert Emanuel Vogler	74
13	1960	The Virgin Spring	Töre	78
14	1960	The Wedding Day	Anders Frost	0
15	1961	Through a Glass Darkly	Martin	78
16	1962	The Mistress	The Man	60
17	1962	Wonderful Adventures of Nils	The Father	57
18	1963	Winter Light	Jonas Persson	79
19	1964	Dance Around the Guldbaggen	Self	0
20	1965	Interlude in the Marshland	Alex Kvist	74
21	1965	4 x 4	Kvist	72
22	1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Jesus	64
23	1965	The Reward	Scott Swenson	57
24	1966	Hawaii	Abner Hale	64
25	1966	The Quiller Memorandum	Oktober	57
26	1966	Here Is Your Life	Smålands-Pelle	71
27	1967	The Diary of Anne Frank	Otto Frank	60
28	1968	Hour of the Wolf	Johan Borg	74
29	1968	An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman	Self	0
30	1968	Black Palm Trees	Gustav Olofsson	55
31	1968	Shame	Jan Rosenberg	75
32	1969	Made in Sweden	Magnus Rud	0
33	1969	The Passion of Anna	Andreas Winkelman	75
34	1970	The Kremlin Letter	Colonel Kosnov	61
35	1971	The Night Visitor	Salem	63
36	1971	The Emigrants	Karl Oskar	75
37	1971	The Touch	Andreas Vergerus	63
38	1971	The Apple War	Roy Lindberg	60
39	1972	The New Land	Karl Oskar	77
40	1972	Embassy	Gorenko	50
41	1972	Ingmar Bergman	Self	62
42	1973	The Exorcist	Father Lankester Merrin	77
43	1974	The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute	Self (archive footage)	77
44	1974	Steppenwolf	Harry Haller	60
45	1975	Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story	The Father	60
46	1975	The Broken Mirror	Matthew Lawrence	80
47	1975	Three Days of the Condor	G. Joubert	73
48	1975	The Ultimate Warrior	Baron	58
49	1976	Heart of a Dog	Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski	64
50	1976	Illustrious Corpses	Supreme Court President	68
51	1976	Foxtrot	Larsen	47
52	1976	The Desert of the Tartars	Cap. Ortiz	68
53	1976	Voyage of the Damned	Captain Schroeder	59
54	1977	Exorcist II: The Heretic	Father Lankester Merrin	45
55	1977	March or Die	François Marneau	58
56	1977	Black Journal	Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal	53
57	1978	Brass Target	Shelley Martin Webber	56
58	1979	A Look at Liv	Self	0
59	1979	Hurricane	Dr. Danielsson	47
60	1980	Death Watch	Gerald Mortenhoe	62
61	1980	Flash Gordon	The Emperor Ming	62
62	1981	Escape to Victory	Major Karl von Steiner	69
63	1981	Venetian Lies	Marcello Herrighe	52
64	1981	She Dances Alone	Nijinsky's voice	0
65	1982	Let Poland Be Poland	Self - Co-Host	0
66	1982	Conan the Barbarian	King Osric	68
67	1982	The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer		58
68	1982	The Flight of the Eagle	Salomon August Andrée	70
69	1982	Target Eagle	Coronel O'Donnell	49
70	1983	Destination Dune	Self	50
71	1983	Circle of Passions	Carlo di Vilalfratti	30
72	1983	Strange Brew	Brewmeister Smith	60
73	1983	Never Say Never Again	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	60
74	1984	The Soldier's Tale	The Devil	64
75	1984	Samson and Delilah	Sidka	49
76	1984	Dreamscape	Paul Novotny	61
77	1984	Le dernier civil	Gérard Bauerle	0
78	1984	Dune	Doctor Kynes	62
79	1985	The Fascination		0
80	1985	Kojak: The Belarus File	Peter Barak	60
81	1985	George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey	Self	56
82	1985	Code Name: Emerald	Jürgen Brausch	65
83	1985	The Repenter	Spinola	61
84	1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	Frederick	75
85	1986	The Wolf at the Door	August Strindberg	52
86	1986	Duet for One	Dr. Louis Feldman	58
87	1987	The Second Victory	Dr. Huber	63
88	1987	Pelle the Conqueror	Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand	73
89	1988	The Human Factor		0
90	1988	Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern	Voice	0
91	1989	Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood	Self	0
92	1989	Ghostbusters II	Vigo (voice) (uncredited)	66
93	1989	Red King, White Knight	Szaz	57
94	1990	The Bachelor	Von Schleheim	0
95	1990	Cellini: A Violent Life	Papa Clemente VII	60
96	1990	Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes	Father Siemes	58
97	1990	Father	Joe Mueller	56
98	1990	Awakenings	Peter Ingham	78
99	1991	A Kiss Before Dying	Thor Carlsson	56
100	1991	Europa	Narrator (voice)	73
101	1991	East of the Sun, West of the Moon	Narrator (voice)	0
102	1991	Until the End of the World	Henry Farber	68
103	1991	The Ox	Vicar	66
104	1992	The Best Intentions	Johan Åkerblom	71
105	1992	The Silent Touch	Henry Kesdi	50
106	1993	Och ge oss skuggorna	Eugene O'Neill	90
107	1993	Morfars resa	Simon S.L. Fromm	0
108	1993	Needful Things	Leland Gaunt	62
109	1993	Minns ni?	(archive footage)	0
110	1994	A che punto è la notte	Arcivescovo di Torino	68
111	1994	Time is Money	Joe Kaufman	70
112	1994	Onkel Vanja	The Professor	0
113	1995	Depth Solitude	Narrator (voice)	58
114	1995	Citizen X	Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky	72
115	1995	The Atlantic	Narrator (voice)	60
116	1995	Judge Dredd	Chief Justice Fargo	58
117	1995	Stjärnbilder	(archive footage)	0
118	1995	Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer	Narrator (voice)	0
119	1996	Delblanc	Narrator (voice)	0
120	1996	Hamsun	Knut Hamsun	72
121	1996	Jerusalem	Vicar	72
122	1996	Samson and Delilah	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	65
123	1996	Private Confessions	Jacob	62
124	1997	Their Frozen Dream	S.A. Andrée (voice)	67
125	1997	Hostile Waters	Admiral Chernavin	58
126	1997	The Princess and the Pauper	Epos	63
127	1997	Solomon	Davide	66
128	1998	The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist	Self - Father Merrin	73
129	1998	What Dreams May Come	The Tracker	72
130	1999	Snow Falling on Cedars	Nels Gudmundsson	60
131	2000	Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'	Self	67
132	2000	Light Keeps Me Company	Self	78
133	2000	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid	Freud	56
134	2001	Sleepless	Moretti	61
135	2001	Druids	Guttuart	30
136	2001	Intact	Samuel	66
137	2002	Minority Report	Director Lamar Burgess [Pre-Crime]	73
138	2004	Hidden Children	Valobra	59
139	2004	Ring of the Nibelungs	Eyvind	62
140	2005	Heidi	Uncle Alp	75
141	2007	The Final Inquiry	Tiberius	47
142	2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Papinou	76
143	2007	Rush Hour 3	Varden Reynard	65
144	2008	Emotional Arithmetic	Jakob Bronski	54
145	2009	A Man and His Dog	Le commandant	59
146	2009	Solomon Kane	Josiah Kane	60
147	2009	Oscar and the Lady in Pink	Le docteur Dusseldorf	65
148	2010	Behind the Moomins	Narrator (voice)	0
149	2010	The Wolfman	Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)	59
150	2010	Shutter Island	Dr. Naehring	82
151	2010	Robin Hood	Sir Walter Loxley	64
152	2010	The Last Norwegian Troll	The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)	67
153	2011	Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde	Self	60
154	2011	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	The Renter	70
155	2012	Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter	Self	0
156	2012	Branded	Marketing Guru	48
157	2012	Starring Sigmund Freud		0
158	2013	Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures	Dr. Alistair Conis	55
159	2014	The Letters	Celeste van Exem	55
160	2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Lor San Tekka	73
161	2016	The First, the Last	Le croque-mort	65
162	2017	Max von Sydow	Self (archive footage)	100
163	2017	Tuschinski's Dream		0
164	2018	Kursk	Admiral Vladimir Petrenko	66
165	2021	Echoes of the Past	Nikolas Andreou (Aged)	66
166	2023	Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist	Self (archive footage)	73

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee/Presenter	68
2	1964	Grimme-Preis-Verleihung	Self	0
3	1974	The Emigrants	Karl Oskar	0
4	1981	The Guldbagge Awards	Self - Best Actor winner	55
5	1981	The Guldbagge Awards	Self - Host	55
6	1981	The Guldbagge Awards	Self - Best Director winner	55
7	1985	The Last Place on Earth	Fridtjof Nansen	68
8	1985	Quo Vadis?	Petrus	54
9	1985	Christopher Columbus	Re Giovanni del Portogallo	65
10	1986	Gösta Berlings saga	Melchior Sinclaire	100
11	1989	The Simpsons	Klaus Ziegler (voice)	80
12	1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Sigmund Freud	65
13	1994	A che punto è la notte	Arcivescovo di Torino	0
14	1995	Radetzky March	Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje	61
15	1997	La principessa e il povero	Epos	0
16	1998	Professione fantasma	Psicoanalista dell’aldilà	60
17	2000	Nuremberg	Samuel Rosenman	75
18	2002	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones	Sigmund Freud	70
19	2004	Ring of the Nibelungs	Eyvind	80
20	2007	The Tudors	Cardinal Von Waldburg	78
21	2007	L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII	Tiberio	0
22	2011	Game of Thrones	Three-Eyed Raven	85