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 Bergmans 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 Stevenss The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkins 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).

Movies unavailable from Max von Sydow

The Seventh Seal

Antonius Block

Movie 1957

Wild Strawberries

Henrik Åkerman

Movie 1957

Max von Sydow

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2017

Intact

Samuel

Movie 2001

Pelle the Conqueror

Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand

Movie 1987

Ring of the Nibelungs

Eyvind

Movie 2004

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Father Lankester Merrin

Movie 1977

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

Self

Movie 1964

Through a Glass Darkly

Martin

Movie 1961

A Look at Liv

Self

Movie 1979

The Virgin Spring

Töre

Movie 1960

The Final Inquiry

Tiberius

Movie 2007

Three Days of the Condor

G. Joubert

Movie 1975

The Ultimate Warrior

Baron

Movie 1975

Shame

Jan Rosenberg

Movie 1968

The Emigrants

Karl Oskar

Movie 1971

A Man and His Dog

Le commandant

Movie 2009

The Best Intentions

Johan Åkerblom

Movie 1992

The Magician

Albert Emanuel Vogler

Movie 1958

Winter Light

Jonas Persson

Movie 1963

Tuschinski's Dream

Movie 2017

The New Land

Karl Oskar

Movie 1972

The Passion of Anna

Andreas Winkelman

Movie 1969

Hawaii

Abner Hale

Movie 1966

Brink of Life

Harry Andersson

Movie 1958

Illustrious Corpses

Supreme Court President

Movie 1976

The Fascination

Movie 1985

Minns ni?

(archive footage)

Movie 1993

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

Self (archive footage)

Movie 1974

Private Confessions

Jacob

Movie 1996

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

Self

Movie 2011

The Apple War

Roy Lindberg

Movie 1971

The Desert of the Tartars

Cap. Ortiz

Movie 1976

Sleepless

Moretti

Movie 2001

Miss Julie

Groom

Movie 1951

Hour of the Wolf

Johan Borg

Movie 1968

Delblanc

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1996

The Flight of the Eagle

Salomon August Andrée

Movie 1982

Light Keeps Me Company

Self

Movie 2000

Steppenwolf

Harry Haller

Movie 1974

Hidden Children

Valobra

Movie 2004

Och ge oss skuggorna

Eugene O'Neill

Movie 1993

Solomon

Davide

Movie 1997

Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

Movie 1996

Heart of a Dog

Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski

Movie 1976

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

Self - Father Merrin

Movie 1998

Ghostbusters II

Vigo (voice) (uncredited)

Movie 1989

The Touch

Andreas Vergerus

Movie 1971

The Reward

Scott Swenson

Movie 1965

The Soldier's Tale

The Devil

Movie 1984

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

Self

Movie 2000

Depth Solitude

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1995

Branded

Marketing Guru

Movie 2012

Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story

The Father

Movie 1975

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2023

A che punto è la notte

Arcivescovo di Torino

Movie 1994

The Bachelor

Von Schleheim

Movie 1990

The Silent Touch

Henry Kesdi

Movie 1992

Only a Mother

Nils

Movie 1949

The Mistress

The Man

Movie 1962

Jerusalem

Vicar

Movie 1996

Target Eagle

Coronel O'Donnell

Movie 1982

Father

Joe Mueller

Movie 1990

Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter

Self

Movie 2012

The Right to Love

Bergman

Movie 1956

Ingen mans kvinna

Olof

Movie 1953

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Father

Movie 1962

Stjärnbilder

(archive footage)

Movie 1995

Samson and Delilah

Sidka

Movie 1984

Here Is Your Life

Smålands-Pelle

Movie 1966

The Ox

Vicar

Movie 1991

Black Palm Trees

Gustav Olofsson

Movie 1968

Venetian Lies

Marcello Herrighe

Movie 1981

Interlude in the Marshland

Alex Kvist

Movie 1965

Let Poland Be Poland

Self - Co-Host

Movie 1982

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

Hunter

Movie 1957

Spion 503

Horst, Gestapo-mand

Movie 1958

The Letters

Celeste van Exem

Movie 2014

The Second Victory

Dr. Huber

Movie 1987

Hurricane

Dr. Danielsson

Movie 1979

The First, the Last

Le croque-mort

Movie 2016

Rabies

Bo Stensson Svenningson

Movie 1958

The Human Factor

Movie 1988

Le dernier civil

Gérard Bauerle

Movie 1984

Their Frozen Dream

S.A. Andrée (voice)

Movie 1997

She Dances Alone

Nijinsky's voice

Movie 1981

Cellini: A Violent Life

Papa Clemente VII

Movie 1990

Starring Sigmund Freud

Movie 2012

Kojak: The Belarus File

Peter Barak

Movie 1985

Made in Sweden

Magnus Rud

Movie 1969

The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer

Movie 1982

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

Father Siemes

Movie 1990

The Repenter

Spinola

Movie 1985

4 x 4

Kvist

Movie 1965

The Princess and the Pauper

Epos

Movie 1997

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures

Dr. Alistair Conis

Movie 2013

Morfars resa

Simon S.L. Fromm

Movie 1993

Onkel Vanja

The Professor

Movie 1994

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

Freud

Movie 2000

The Last Norwegian Troll

The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)

Movie 2010

The Atlantic

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1995

Ingmar Bergman

Self

Movie 1972

An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman

Self

Movie 1968

Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1995

The Wolfman

Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)

Movie 2010

Circle of Passions

Carlo di Vilalfratti

Movie 1983

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Self

Movie 1985

The Wedding Day

Anders Frost

Movie 1960

Behind the Moomins

Narrator (voice)

Movie 2010

Time is Money

Joe Kaufman

Movie 1994

The Broken Mirror

Matthew Lawrence

Movie 1975

Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood

Self

Movie 1989

Samson and Delilah

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Movie 1996

Echoes of the Past

Nikolas Andreou (Aged)

Movie 2021

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

Voice

Movie 1988

The Minister of Uddarbo

Gustaf Ömark

Movie 1957

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1991

Tv series unavailable from Max von Sydow

Radetzky March

Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje

Tv 1995

La principessa e il povero

Epos

Tv 1997

Christopher Columbus

Re Giovanni del Portogallo

Tv 1985

Gösta Berlings saga

Melchior Sinclaire

Tv 1986

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

Tiberio

Tv 2007

Professione fantasma

Psicoanalista dell’aldilà

Tv 1998

Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

Self

Tv 1964

A che punto è la notte

Arcivescovo di Torino

Tv 1994

The Guldbagge Awards

Self - Best Director winner

Tv 1981

The Guldbagge Awards

Self - Host

Tv 1981

The Guldbagge Awards

Self - Best Actor winner

Tv 1981

Ring of the Nibelungs

Eyvind

Tv 2004

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee/Presenter

Tv 1944