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