Max von Sydow
Born in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden — Apr 10 1929• Died Mar 08 2020
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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 whe…
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The Simpsons
Klaus Ziegler (voice)
Game of Thrones
Three-Eyed Raven
The Tudors
Cardinal Von Waldburg
Dune
Doctor Kynes
Shutter Island
Dr. Naehring
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Sigmund Freud
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Lor San Tekka
The Exorcist
Father Lankester Merrin
Minority Report
Director Lamar Burgess
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Best Actor winner
Ghostbusters II
Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Robin Hood
Sir Walter Loxley
Conan the Barbarian
King Osric
Rush Hour 3
Varden Reynard
Awakenings
Peter Ingham
Never Say Never Again
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Judge Dredd
Chief Justice Fargo
Nuremberg
Samuel Rosenman
Hannah and Her Sisters
Frederick
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Jesus
The Seventh Seal
Antonius Block
The Wolfman
Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
What Dreams May Come
The Tracker
Flash Gordon
The Emperor Ming
Three Days of the Condor
G. Joubert
The Last Place on Earth
Fridtjof Nansen
Christopher Columbus
Re Giovanni del Portogallo
Solomon Kane
Josiah Kane
Kursk
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Wild Strawberries
Åkerman
Escape to Victory
Major Karl von Steiner
Solomon
David
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Renter
Until the End of the World
Henry Farber
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
Needful Things
Leland Gaunt
Ring of the Nibelungs
Eyvind
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Papinou
Quo Vadis?
Petrus
Solomon
Davide
Hour of the Wolf
Johan Borg
The Magician
Albert Emanuel Vogler
A Kiss Before Dying
Thor Carlsson
Citizen X
Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Lumière & Company
Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Father Lankester Merrin
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Tiberio
Dreamscape
Paul Novotny
The Kremlin Letter
Colonel Kosnov
Voyage of the Damned
Captain Schroeder
Winter Light
Jonas Persson
March or Die
François Marneau
Snow Falling on Cedars
Nels Gudmundsson
The Quiller Memorandum
Oktober
Intacto
Samuel
Strange Brew
Brewmeister Smith
Hawaii
Abner Hale
Europa
Narrator (voice)
Brass Target
Shelley Martin Webber
The Final Inquiry
Tiberius
Radetzky March
Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
The Virgin Spring
Töre
Hostile Waters
Admiral Chernavin
Pelle the Conqueror
Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
Heidi
Uncle Alp
Sleepless
Moretti
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Self
The Second Victory
Dr. Huber
The Letters
Celeste van Exem
Steppenwolf
Harry Haller
Embassy
Gorenko
Shame
Jan Rosenberg
Duet for One
Dr. Louis Feldman
The Night Visitor
Salem
The Wolf at the Door
August Strindberg
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Self - Father Merrin
The First, the Last
Le croque-mort
Through a Glass Darkly
Martin
The Emigrants
Karl Oskar
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Self (archive footage)
La principessa e il povero
Epos
Kojak The Belarus File
Peter Barak
A Man and His Dog
Le commandant
Code Name: Emerald
Jürgen Brausch
Black Journal
Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
The Desert of the Tartars
Cap. Ortiz
Samson and Delilah
Sidka
The Repenter
Spinola
Palme
Self (archive footage)
Light Keeps Me Company
Self
Hamsun
Knut Hamsun
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
A che punto è la notte
Arcivescovo di Torino
The Apple War
Roy Lindberg
Red King, White Knight
Szaz
Branded
Marketing Guru
Hurricane
Dr. Danielsson
The Bachelor
Von Schleheim
Death Watch
Gerald Mortenhoe
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Freud
The Flight of the Eagle
Salomon August Andrée
Behind the Moomins
Narrator (voice)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
The Best Intentions
Johan Åkerblom
The New Land
Karl Oskar
Let Poland Be Poland
Self - Co-Host
The Princess and the Pauper
Epos
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
The Father
Cellini: A Violent Life
Pope Clement VII
The Ox
Vicar
Echoes of the Past
Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Le docteur Dusseldorf
The Reward
Scott Swenson
Gösta Berlings saga
Melchior Sinclaire
Rabies
Bo Stensson Svenningson
Destination Dune
Self
Minns ni?
(archive footage)
Miss Julie
Groom
Emotional Arithmetic
Jakob Bronski
Private Confessions
Jacob
The Ultimate Warrior
Baron
Father
Joe Mueller
Starring Sigmund Freud
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Father Siemes
The Silent Touch
Henry Kesdi
Jerusalem
Vicar
Professione fantasma
Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
The Passion of Anna
Andreas Winkelman
Heart of a Dog
Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
Druids
Guttuart
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
The Father
The Right to Love
Bergman
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Self
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
Self
Hidden Children
Valobra
Target Eagle
Coronel O'Donnell
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Voice
The Last Norwegian Troll
The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
The Touch
Andreas Vergerus
The Wedding Day
Anders Frost
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Self
Their Frozen Dream
S.A. Andrée (voice)
Illustrious Corpses
Supreme Court President
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Hunter
Time is Money
Joe Kaufman
Circle of Passions
Carlo di Vilalfratti
She Dances Alone
Nijinsky (voice)
The Mistress
The Man
Le dernier civil
Gérard Bauerle
Black Palm Trees
Gustav Olofsson
Katinka
Directing
Only a Mother
Nils
The Diary of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
The Minister of Uddarbo
Gustaf Ömark
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Dr. Alistair Conis
The Soldier's Tale
The Devil (voice)
Ingmar Bergman
Self
Max von Sydow
Self (archive footage)
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
Self
Och ge oss skuggorna
Eugene O'Neill
Made in Sweden
Magnus Rud
The Broken Mirror
Matthew Lawrence
Brink of Life
Harry Andersson
Here Is Your Life
Smålands-Pelle
Venetian Lies
Marcello Herrighe
Delblanc
Narrator (voice)
Foxtrot
Larsen
Interlude in the Marshland
Alex Kvist
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
Narrator (voice)
Tuschinski's Dream
Onkel Vanja
The Professor
Morfars resa
Simon S.L. Fromm
No Man's Woman
Olof
The Atlantic
Narrator (voice)
A Look at Liv
Self
Depth Solitude
Narrator (voice)
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
The Human Factor
Spion 503
Horst, Gestapo-mand
4 x 4
Kvist
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer