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