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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 10, 1929
Died
March 8, 2020
Place of Birth
Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
Also Known As
- Max Carl Adolf von Sydow
- Max Von Sydow
- Макс фон Сюдов
- Carl Adolf von Sydow
Max von Sydow
2.8 Popularity
Biography
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
0.0
Self - (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
6.6
Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Echoes of the Past
2021
6.6
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Kursk
2018
0.0
Tuschinski's Dream
2017
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Max von Sydow
2017
6.4
Le croque-mort
The First, the Last
2016
7.3
Lor San Tekka
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
5.5
Celeste van Exem
The Letters
2014
5.5
Dr. Alistair Conis
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
2013
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0.0
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
Credits
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Echoes of the Past
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
2021
6.6
Kursk
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
2018
6.6
Tuschinski's Dream
2017
0.0
Max von Sydow
as Self (archive footage)
2017
10.0
The First, the Last
as Le croque-mort
2016
6.4
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Lor San Tekka
2015
7.3
The Letters
as Celeste van Exem
2014
5.5
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
as Dr. Alistair Conis
2013
5.5
🎬
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
0.0
Palme
as Self (archive footage)
2012
7.6
Branded
as Marketing Guru
2012
4.7
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
as Self
2012
0.0
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as The Renter
2011
7.0
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
as Self
2011
6.0
Game of Thrones
as Three-Eyed Raven
2011
8.5
The Last Norwegian Troll
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
2010
6.7
🎬
Behind the Moomins
as Narrator (voice)
2010
0.0
Robin Hood
as Sir Walter Loxley
2010
6.4
Shutter Island
as Dr. Naehring
2010
8.2
The Wolfman
as Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
2010
5.9
Solomon Kane
as Josiah Kane
2009
6.0
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
as Le docteur Dusseldorf
2009
6.5
A Man and His Dog
as Le commandant
2009
6.0
Emotional Arithmetic
as Jakob Bronski
2008
5.4
Rush Hour 3
as Varden Reynard
2007
6.5
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Papinou
2007
7.6
The Final Inquiry
as Tiberius
2007
4.7
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
as Tiberio
2007
5.0
The Tudors
as Cardinal Von Waldburg
2007
7.8
Heidi
as Uncle Alp
2005
7.6
Ring of the Nibelungs
as Eyvind
2004
8.0
Ring of the Nibelungs
as Eyvind
2004
6.2
Hidden Children
as Valobra
2004
5.9
Minority Report
as Director Lamar Burgess
2002
7.3
Intacto
as Samuel
2001
6.5
Druids
as Guttuart
2001
3.1
Sleepless
as Moretti
2001
6.1
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
as Freud
2000
5.7
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
2000
7.8
Nuremberg
as Samuel Rosenman
2000
7.4
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
as Self
2000
6.7
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Nels Gudmundsson
1999
6.0
What Dreams May Come
as The Tracker
1998
7.2
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
as Self - Father Merrin
1998
7.3
Professione fantasma
as Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
1998
6.0
Solomon
as Davide
1997
6.7
Solomon
as David
1997
0.0
La principessa e il povero
as Epos
1997
0.0
The Princess and the Pauper
as Epos
1997
6.1
Hostile Waters
as Admiral Chernavin
1997
6.0
Their Frozen Dream
as S.A. Andrée (voice)
1997
5.9
Private Confessions
as Jacob
1996
5.8
Jerusalem
as Vicar
1996
7.2
Hamsun
as Knut Hamsun
1996
7.2
Delblanc
as Narrator (voice)
1996
0.0
Radetzky March
as Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
1995
5.1
Lumière & Company
as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
1995
6.2
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Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
as Narrator (voice)
1995
0.0
Stjärnbilder
as (archive footage)
1995
0.0
Judge Dredd
as Chief Justice Fargo
1995
5.8
The Atlantic
as Narrator (voice)
1995
6.0
Citizen X
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
1995
7.2
Depth Solitude
as Narrator (voice)
1995
5.8
Onkel Vanja
as The Professor
1994
0.0
A che punto è la notte
as Arcivescovo di Torino
1994
0.0
Time is Money
as Joe Kaufman
1994
7.0
Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
1993
0.0
Needful Things
as Leland Gaunt
1993
6.2
Morfars resa
as Simon S.L. Fromm
1993
0.0
Och ge oss skuggorna
as Eugene O'Neill
1993
9.0
The Silent Touch
as Henry Kesdi
1992
4.6
The Best Intentions
as Johan Åkerblom
1992
7.0
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Sigmund Freud
1992
6.5
The Ox
as Vicar
1991
6.5
Until the End of the World
as Henry Farber
1991
6.7
🎬
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
Europa
as Narrator (voice)
1991
7.4
A Kiss Before Dying
as Thor Carlsson
1991
5.5
Awakenings
as Peter Ingham
1990
7.8
Father
as Joe Mueller
1990
5.3
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
as Father Siemes
1990
5.8
Cellini: A Violent Life
as Pope Clement VII
1990
4.0
The Bachelor
as Von Schleheim
1990
0.0
The Simpsons
as Klaus Ziegler (voice)
1989
8.0
Red King, White Knight
as Szaz
1989
6.0
Ghostbusters II
as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
1989
6.6
🎬
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
as Self
1989
0.0
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
as Voice
1988
0.0
🎬
The Human Factor
1988
0.0
Pelle the Conqueror
as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
1987
7.2
The Second Victory
as Dr. Huber
1987
6.3
Duet for One
as Dr. Louis Feldman
1986
5.2
The Wolf at the Door
as August Strindberg
1986
5.0
Gösta Berlings saga
as Melchior Sinclaire
1986
10.0
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Frederick
1986
7.5
The Repenter
as Spinola
1985
6.1
Code Name: Emerald
as Jürgen Brausch
1985
6.5
Christopher Columbus
as Re Giovanni del Portogallo
1985
6.5
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
1985
5.6
Quo Vadis?
as Petrus
1985
5.4
The Last Place on Earth
as Fridtjof Nansen
1985
6.8
Kojak The Belarus File
as Peter Barak
1985
6.0
Dune
as Doctor Kynes
1984
6.2
Le dernier civil
as Gérard Bauerle
1984
0.0
Dreamscape
as Paul Novotny
1984
6.1
Samson and Delilah
as Sidka
1984
4.9
The Soldier's Tale
as The Devil (voice)
1984
6.5
Never Say Never Again
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1983
6.1
Strange Brew
as Brewmeister Smith
1983
6.0
Circle of Passions
as Carlo di Vilalfratti
1983
2.3
Destination Dune
as Self
1983
5.0
Target Eagle
as Coronel O'Donnell
1982
4.9
The Flight of the Eagle
as Salomon August Andrée
1982
7.0
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
1982
5.8
Conan the Barbarian
as King Osric
1982
6.8
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self - Co-Host
1982
0.0
🎬
The Guldbagge Awards
as Self - Best Director winner
1981
5.5
🎬
The Guldbagge Awards
as Self - Host
1981
5.5
🎬
The Guldbagge Awards
as Self - Best Actor winner
1981
5.5
She Dances Alone
as Nijinsky's voice
1981
0.0
Venetian Lies
as Marcello Herrighe
1981
5.2
Escape to Victory
as Major Karl von Steiner
1981
6.9
Flash Gordon
as The Emperor Ming
1980
6.2
Death Watch
as Gerald Mortenhoe
1980
6.3
Hurricane
as Dr. Danielsson
1979
4.7
🎬
A Look at Liv
as Self
1979
0.0
Brass Target
as Shelley Martin Webber
1978
5.4
Black Journal
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
1977
5.3
March or Die
as François Marneau
1977
5.8
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Father Lankester Merrin
1977
4.5
Voyage of the Damned
as Captain Schroeder
1976
6.0
The Desert of the Tartars
as Cap. Ortiz
1976
6.8
Foxtrot
as Larsen
1976
4.6
Illustrious Corpses
as Supreme Court President
1976
6.8
Heart of a Dog
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
1976
5.6
The Ultimate Warrior
as Baron
1975
5.7
Three Days of the Condor
as G. Joubert
1975
7.3
The Broken Mirror
as Matthew Lawrence
1975
6.8
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
as The Father
1975
5.8
Steppenwolf
as Harry Haller
1974
5.8
The Emigrants
as Karl Oskar
1974
8.0
🎬
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
as Self (archive footage)
1974
7.7
The Exorcist
as Father Lankester Merrin
1973
7.7
Ingmar Bergman
as Self
1972
6.2
Embassy
as Gorenko
1972
5.0
The New Land
as Karl Oskar
1972
7.5
The Apple War
as Roy Lindberg
1971
5.9
The Touch
as Andreas Vergerus
1971
5.8
The Emigrants
as Karl Oskar
1971
7.4
The Night Visitor
as Salem
1971
6.3
The Kremlin Letter
as Colonel Kosnov
1970
6.0
The Passion of Anna
as Andreas Winkelman
1969
7.5
Made in Sweden
as Magnus Rud
1969
0.0
Shame
as Jan Rosenberg
1968
7.5
Black Palm Trees
as Gustav Olofsson
1968
5.5
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
as Self
1968
0.0
Hour of the Wolf
as Johan Borg
1968
7.4
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
1967
6.0
Here Is Your Life
as Smålands-Pelle
1966
6.9
The Quiller Memorandum
as Oktober
1966
5.8
Hawaii
as Abner Hale
1966
6.3
The Reward
as Scott Swenson
1965
5.7
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Jesus
1965
6.4
4 x 4
as Kvist
1965
7.2
Interlude in the Marshland
as Alex Kvist
1965
7.2
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
as Self
1964
0.0
🎬
Grimme Award
as Self
1964
0.0
Winter Light
as Jonas Persson
1963
7.9
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
as The Father
1962
5.7
The Mistress
as The Man
1962
5.9
Through a Glass Darkly
as Martin
1961
7.8
The Wedding Day
as Anders Frost
1960
0.0
The Virgin Spring
as Töre
1960
7.8
The Magician
as Albert Emanuel Vogler
1958
7.4
Rabies
as Bo Stensson Svenningson
1958
6.0
Spion 503
as Horst, Gestapo-mand
1958
4.0
Brink of Life
as Harry Andersson
1958
7.5
The Minister of Uddarbo
as Gustaf Ömark
1957
0.0
Wild Strawberries
as Åkerman
1957
8.1
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
as Hunter
1957
5.5
The Seventh Seal
as Antonius Block
1957
8.2
The Right to Love
as Bergman
1956
5.5
Ingen mans kvinna
as Olof
1953
4.0
Miss Julie
as Groom
1951
6.6
Only a Mother
as Nils
1949
6.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
7.2