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 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 Self
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As The Renter
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As The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
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As Sir Walter Loxley
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As Narrator (voice)
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As Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
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As Dr. Naehring
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As Josiah Kane
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As Le commandant
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As Le docteur Dusseldorf
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As Jakob Bronski
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As Tiberius
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As Papinou
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As Varden Reynard
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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 Samuel
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As Moretti
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As Freud
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As Self
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As Self
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As Nels Gudmundsson
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As Self / Father Merrin
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As The Tracker
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As Admiral Chernavin
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As Davide
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As Epos
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As S.A. Andrée (voice)
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As Narrator (voice)
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As Knut Hamsun
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As Vicar
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As Jacob
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As Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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As Narrator (voice)
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As (archive footage)
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As Narrator (voice)
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As Chief Justice Fargo
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As Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
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As Narrator (voice)
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As Arcivescovo di Torino
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As Joe Kaufman
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As The Professor
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As Leland Gaunt
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As (archive footage)
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As Simon S.L. Fromm
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As Eugene O'Neill
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As Henry Kesdi
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As Johan Åkerblom
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As Narrator (voice)
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As Vicar
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As Thor Carlsson
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As Henry Farber
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As Von Schleheim
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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 Peter Ingham
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As Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
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As Szaz
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As Self
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As Voice
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As Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
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As Dr. Huber
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As Frederick
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As Dr. Louis Feldman
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As August Strindberg
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As Spinola
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As Peter Barak
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As Self
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As Jürgen Brausch
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As Paul Novotny
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As Father Merrin (archive footage) (uncredited)
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As The Devil
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As Sidka
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As Doctor Kynes
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As Gérard Bauerle
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As Brewmeister Smith
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As Carlo di Vilalfratti
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As Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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As King Osric
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As Salomon August Andrée
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As Self - Co-Host
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As Coronel O'Donnell
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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 Gerald Mortenhoe
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As The Emperor Ming
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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 François Marneau
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As Father Lankester Merrin
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As Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
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As Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
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As Larsen
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As Supreme Court President
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As Captain Schroeder
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As Cap. Ortiz
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As Matthew Lawrence
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As The Father
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As G. Joubert
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As Baron
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As Self (archive footage)
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As Harry Haller
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As Father Lankester Merrin
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As Self
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As Karl Oskar
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As Gorenko
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As Karl Oskar
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As Andreas Vergerus
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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 Magnus Rud
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As Andreas Winkelman
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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 Smålands-Pelle
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As Abner Hale
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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 Jesus
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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 Bo Stensson Svenningson
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As Horst, Gestapo-mand
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As Harry Andersson
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As Gustaf Ömark
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As Antonius Block
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As Henrik Åkerman
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As Hunter
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As Bergman
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As Olof
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As Groom
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As Nils