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:
- 131
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Only a Mother 1949-10-31
- Latest Project:
- Movie Kursk 2018-11-07
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Kursk | Admiral Vladimir Petrenko | 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 | 2014-02-23 |
| Movie | Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter | Self | 2012-03-27 |
| Movie | Branded | Marketing Guru | 2012-09-06 |
| Movie | Starring Sigmund Freud | 2012-11-01 | |
| Movie | Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self | 2011-10-25 |
| Movie | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | The Renter | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | The Wolfman | Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited) | 2010-02-10 |
| Movie | Shutter Island | Dr. 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 | A Man and His Dog | Le commandant | 2009-01-14 |
| Movie | Solomon Kane | Josiah Kane | 2009-09-16 |
| Movie | Oscar and the Lady in Pink | Le docteur Dusseldorf | 2009-11-15 |
| Movie | Emotional Arithmetic | Jakob Bronski | 2008-04-18 |
| Movie | The Final Inquiry | Tiberius | 2007-04-04 |
| Movie | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Papinou | 2007-05-23 |
| Movie | Rush Hour 3 | Varden Reynard | 2007-08-08 |
| Series | Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King | 2006-03-27 | |
| Movie | Heidi | Uncle Alp | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Hidden Children | Valobra | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Minority Report | Director Lamar Burgess [Pre-Crime] | 2002-06-20 |
| Movie | Sleepless | Moretti | 2001-01-05 |
| Movie | Druids | Guttuart | 2001-01-24 |
| Movie | Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' | Self | 2000-05-30 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Samuel Rosenman | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid | Freud | 2000-09-19 |
| Movie | Light Keeps Me Company | Self | 2000-08-26 |
| Movie | The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist | Self - Father Merrin | 1998-06-13 |
| Movie | What Dreams May Come | The Tracker | 1998-10-02 |
| Movie | Solomon | Davide | 1997-12-15 |
| Movie | Their Frozen Dream | S.A. Andrée (voice) | 1997-10-03 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Pauper | Epos | 1997-12-02 |
| Movie | Jerusalem | Vicar | 1996-09-06 |
| Movie | Hamsun | Knut Hamsun | 1996-04-19 |
| Movie | Private Confessions | Jacob | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | Samson and Delilah | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1996-12-08 |
| Movie | Citizen X | Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky | 1995-02-25 |
| Movie | Judge Dredd | Chief Justice Fargo | 1995-06-30 |
| Movie | A che punto è la notte | Arcivescovo di Torino | 1994-04-07 |
| Movie | Morfars resa | Simon S.L. Fromm | 1993-01-29 |
| Movie | Minns ni? | (archive footage) | 1993-10-24 |
| Movie | Needful Things | Leland Gaunt | 1993-08-27 |
| Movie | The Best Intentions | Johan Åkerblom | 1992-05-24 |
| Movie | The Silent Touch | Henry Kesdi | 1992-09-30 |
| Movie | A Kiss Before Dying | Thor Carlsson | 1991-04-26 |
| Movie | Europa | Narrator (voice) | 1991-06-27 |
| Movie | Until the End of the World | Henry Farber | 1991-09-12 |
| Movie | The Ox | Vicar | 1991-11-22 |
| Movie | Cellini: A Violent Life | Papa Clemente VII | 1990-05-02 |
| Movie | The Bachelor | Von Schleheim | 1990-03-29 |
| Movie | Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes | Father Siemes | 1990-08-06 |
| Movie | Awakenings | Peter Ingham | 1990-12-04 |
| Movie | Father | Joe Mueller | 1990-08-16 |
| Movie | Ghostbusters II | Vigo (voice) (uncredited) | 1989-06-16 |
| Movie | Red King, White Knight | Szaz | 1989-11-25 |
| Movie | Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern | Voice | 1988-05-24 |
| Movie | The Second Victory | Dr. Huber | 1987-06-04 |
| Movie | Pelle the Conqueror | Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand | 1987-12-21 |
| Series | Gösta Berlings saga | Melchior Sinclaire | 1986-03-10 |
| Movie | Hannah and Her Sisters | Frederick | 1986-02-07 |
| Movie | The Wolf at the Door | August Strindberg | 1986-09-05 |
| Movie | Duet for One | Dr. Louis Feldman | 1986-12-25 |
| Movie | Quo Vadis? | Petrus | 1985-02-24 |
| Movie | Kojak: The Belarus File | Peter Barak | 1985-02-16 |
| Movie | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self | 1985-03-03 |
| Series | The Last Place on Earth | Fridtjof Nansen | 1985-02-18 |
| Series | Christopher Columbus | Re Giovanni del Portogallo | 1985-03-07 |
| Movie | The Repenter | Spinola | 1985-11-15 |
| Movie | Code Name: Emerald | Jürgen Brausch | 1985-09-07 |
| Movie | The Ice Pirates | (uncredited) | 1984-03-16 |
| Movie | The Soldier's Tale | The Devil | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | Samson and Delilah | Sidka | 1984-03-31 |
| Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Father Merrin (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 |
| Movie | Le dernier civil | Gérard Bauerle | 1984-11-04 |
| Movie | Dreamscape | 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 | Target Eagle | Coronel O'Donnell | 1982-09-10 |
| Movie | Escape to Victory | Major Karl von Steiner | 1981-06-17 |
| Movie | Venetian Lies | Marcello Herrighe | 1981-06-25 |
| Movie | Death Watch | Gerald Mortenhoe | 1980-01-23 |
| Movie | Hurricane | Dr. Danielsson | 1979-04-12 |
| Movie | Brass Target | Shelley Martin Webber | 1978-12-22 |
| Movie | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Father Lankester Merrin | 1977-06-17 |
| Movie | Black Journal | Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal | 1977-11-24 |
| Movie | March or Die | François Marneau | 1977-09-08 |
| Movie | Illustrious Corpses | Supreme Court President | 1976-02-12 |
| Movie | Heart of a Dog | Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski | 1976-01-23 |
| Movie | Foxtrot | Larsen | 1976-03-01 |
| Movie | The Desert of the Tartars | Cap. Ortiz | 1976-10-29 |
| Movie | Voyage of the Damned | Captain Schroeder | 1976-12-22 |
| Movie | Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story | The Father | 1975-03-17 |
| Movie | Three Days of the Condor | G. Joubert | 1975-09-24 |
| Movie | The Ultimate Warrior | Baron | 1975-10-02 |
| Movie | The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | 1974-02-20 |
| Movie | Steppenwolf | Harry Haller | 1974-12-18 |
| Movie | The Exorcist | Father Lankester Merrin | 1973-12-26 |
| Movie | Embassy | Gorenko | 1972-03-02 |
| Movie | The New Land | Karl Oskar | 1972-02-26 |
| 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 | Hour of the Wolf | Johan Borg | 1968-02-19 |
| Movie | Black Palm Trees | Gustav Olofsson | 1968-09-26 |
| Movie | Shame | Jan Rosenberg | 1968-09-29 |
| Movie | Hawaii | Abner Hale | 1966-10-10 |
| Movie | The Quiller Memorandum | Oktober | 1966-11-10 |
| Movie | Here Is Your Life | Smålands-Pelle | 1966-12-26 |
| Movie | 4 x 4 | Kvist | 1965-02-25 |
| 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 | The Virgin Spring | Töre | 1960-02-08 |
| Movie | The Magician | Albert Emanuel Vogler | 1958-12-26 |
| Movie | Brink of Life | Harry Andersson | 1958-03-31 |
| Movie | Spion 503 | Horst, Gestapo-mand | 1958-08-29 |
| Movie | The Seventh Seal | Antonius Block | 1957-02-16 |
| Movie | Wild Strawberries | Henrik Åkerman | 1957-08-28 |
| Movie | Mr. Sleeman Is Coming | Hunter | 1957-04-18 |
| Movie | The Right to Love | Bergman | 1956-02-27 |
| Movie | Only a Mother | Nils | 1949-10-31 |