Max von Sydow

Acting · Born 1929-04-10 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden

Biography

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.…

Filmography

• Minority Report as Director Lamar Burgess
• The Seventh Seal as Antonius Block
• Wild Strawberries as Åkerman
• Hostile Waters as Admiral Chernavin
• Snow Falling on Cedars as Nels Gudmundsson
• Dune as Doctor Kynes
• Max von Sydow as Self (archive footage)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told as Jesus
• Until the End of the World as Henry Farber
• Needful Things as Leland Gaunt