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).
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
as Self (archive footage)
as Le croque-mort
as Lor San Tekka
as Self (archive)
as Celeste van Exem
as Dr. Alistair Conis
as Self (archive footage)
as Marketing Guru
as The Renter
as Three-Eyed Raven(3 eps)
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Sir Walter Loxley
as Dr. Naehring
as Josiah Kane
as Le docteur Dusseldorf
as Le commandant
as Jakob Bronski
as Varden Reynard
as Papinou
as Tiberius
as Tiberio(2 eps)
as Cardinal Von Waldburg(8 eps)
as Uncle Alp
as Eyvind(2 eps)
as Eyvind
as Valobra
as Director Lamar Burgess
as Samuel
as Guttuart
as Moretti
as Self
as Samuel Rosenman(2 eps)
as Nels Gudmundsson
as The Tracker
as Self - Father Merrin
as Psicoanalista dell’aldilà(11 eps)
as Davide
as David(2 eps)
as Epos
as Epos(2 eps)
as Admiral Chernavin
as S.A. Andrée (voice)
as Jacob
as Vicar
as Knut Hamsun
as Narrator (voice)
as Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje(3 eps)
as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
as Narrator (voice)
as (archive footage)
as Chief Justice Fargo
as Narrator (voice)
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as The Professor
as Arcivescovo di Torino(2 eps)
as Joe Kaufman
as (archive footage)
as Leland Gaunt
as Simon S.L. Fromm
as Eugene O'Neill
as Henry Kesdi
as Johan Åkerblom
as Sigmund Freud(1 ep)
as Vicar
as Henry Farber
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Thor Carlsson
as Peter Ingham
as Joe Mueller
as Father Siemes
as Pope Clement VII
as Von Schleheim
as Klaus Ziegler (voice)(1 ep)
as Szaz
as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
as Dr. Huber
as Dr. Louis Feldman
as August Strindberg
as Melchior Sinclaire(6 eps)
as Frederick
as Spinola
as Jürgen Brausch
as Re Giovanni del Portogallo(4 eps)
as Petrus(6 eps)
as Fridtjof Nansen(7 eps)
as Peter Barak
as Doctor Kynes
as The Devil (voice)
as Gérard Bauerle
as Paul Novotny
as Sidka
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
as Brewmeister Smith
as Carlo di Vilalfratti
as Self
as Coronel O'Donnell
as Salomon August Andrée
as King Osric
as Self - Co-Host
as Self - Best Actor winner(2 eps)
as Self - Host(1 ep)
as Self - Best Director winner(1 ep)
as Marcello Herrighe
as Major Karl von Steiner
as Nijinsky (voice)
as The Emperor Ming
as Gerald Mortenhoe
as Dr. Danielsson
as Self
as Shelley Martin Webber
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
as François Marneau
as Father Lankester Merrin
as Captain Schroeder
as Cap. Ortiz
as Larsen
as Supreme Court President
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
as Baron
as G. Joubert
as Matthew Lawrence
as The Father
as Harry Haller
as Karl Oskar(8 eps)
as Self (archive footage)
as Father Lankester Merrin
as Self
as Gorenko
as Karl Oskar
as Roy Lindberg
as Andreas Vergerus
as Karl Oskar
as Salem
as Colonel Kosnov
as Andreas Winkelman
as Magnus Rud
as Jan Rosenberg
as Gustav Olofsson
as Johan Borg
as Otto Frank
as Smålands-Pelle
as Oktober
as Abner Hale
as Scott Swenson
as Jesus
as Kvist
as Alex Kvist
as Self
as Self(1 ep)
as Jonas Persson
as The Father
as The Man
as Martin
as Anders Frost
as Töre
as Albert Emanuel Vogler
as Bo Stensson Svenningson
as Horst, Gestapo-mand
as Harry Andersson
as Gustaf Ömark
as Åkerman
as Hunter
as Antonius Block
as Bergman
as Olof
as Groom
as Nils
as Self - Nominee / Presenter(1 ep)