Birth Day: 1929-04-10
Place of birth: Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
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).
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As Self - (archive footage) -
As Nikolas Andreou (Aged) -
As Admiral Vladimir Petrenko -
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As Self (archive footage) -
As Le croque-mort -
As Lor San Tekka -
As Celeste van Exem -
As Dr. Alistair Conis -
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As Marketing Guru -
As Self -
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As The Renter -
As Self -
As Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited) -
As Narrator (voice)
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As Sir Walter Loxley -
As Dr. Naehring -
As The Last Norweigian Troll (voice) -
As Josiah Kane -
As Le docteur Dusseldorf -
As Le commandant -
As Jakob Bronski -
As Varden Reynard -
As Papinou -
As Tiberius -
As Uncle Alp -
As Valobra -
As Eyvind -
As Director Lamar Burgess -
As Samuel -
As Moretti -
As Guttuart -
As Self -
As Self -
As Freud -
As Nels Gudmundsson -
As Self - Father Merrin -
As The Tracker -
As Davide -
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As Epos -
As Admiral Chernavin -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Jacob -
As Vicar -
As Knut Hamsun -
As Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman") -
As Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky -
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As Narrator (voice)
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As Chief Justice Fargo -
As The Professor -
As Joe Kaufman -
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As Simon S.L. Fromm -
As Eugene O'Neill -
As Leland Gaunt -
As Johan Åkerblom -
As Henry Kesdi -
As Henry Farber -
As Narrator (voice)
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As Thor Carlsson -
As Vicar -
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As Pope Clement VII -
As Joe Mueller -
As Father Siemes -
As Von Schleheim -
As Peter Ingham -
As Self
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As Szaz -
As Vigo (voice) (uncredited) -
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As Voice -
As Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand -
As Dr. Huber -
As Dr. Louis Feldman -
As August Strindberg -
As Frederick -
As Peter Barak -
As Self -
As Spinola -
As Jürgen Brausch -
As Gérard Bauerle -
As Paul Novotny -
As The Devil (voice) -
As Doctor Kynes -
As Sidka -
As Carlo di Vilalfratti -
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As Ernst Stavro Blofeld -
As Brewmeister Smith -
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As Self - Co-Host -
As King Osric -
As Coronel O'Donnell -
As Salomon August Andrée -
As Major Karl von Steiner -
As Nijinsky (voice) -
As Marcello Herrighe -
As Gerald Mortenhoe -
As The Emperor Ming -
As Dr. Danielsson -
As Self
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As Shelley Martin Webber -
As Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal -
As François Marneau -
As Father Lankester Merrin -
As Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski -
As Larsen -
As Captain Schroeder -
As Supreme Court President -
As Cap. Ortiz -
As The Father -
As Matthew Lawrence -
As G. Joubert -
As Baron -
As Self (archive footage)
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As Harry Haller -
As Father Lankester Merrin -
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As Gorenko -
As Karl Oskar -
As Karl Oskar -
As Roy Lindberg -
As Andreas Vergerus -
As Salem -
As Colonel Kosnov -
As Andreas Winkelman -
As Magnus Rud -
As Johan Borg -
As Jan Rosenberg -
As Gustav Olofsson -
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As Otto Frank -
As Smålands-Pelle -
As Oktober -
As Abner Hale -
As Jesus -
As Scott Swenson -
As Kvist -
As Alex Kvist -
As Self -
As Jonas Persson -
As The Man -
As The Father -
As Martin -
As Anders Frost -
As Töre -
As Horst, Gestapo-mand -
As Albert Emanuel Vogler -
As Bo Stensson Svenningson -
As Harry Andersson -
As Åkerman -
As Hunter -
As Gustaf Ömark -
As Antonius Block -
As Bergman -
As Olof -
As Groom -
As Nils