Max von Sydow
Acting
Born April 10, 1929 · 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…
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The Simpsons
Game of Thrones
Golden Globe Awards
Shutter Island
The Tudors
Grimme Award
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Exorcist
Minority Report
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Conan the Barbarian
Dune
Robin Hood
The Seventh Seal
Rush Hour 3
Ghostbusters II
Awakenings
The Guldbagge Awards
Judge Dredd
What Dreams May Come
Nuremberg
Never Say Never Again
Christopher Columbus
Solomon Kane
Escape to Victory
Flash Gordon
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Hannah and Her Sisters
Three Days of the Condor
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Wild Strawberries
Kursk
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Until the End of the World
Ring of the Nibelungs
Citizen X
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Needful Things
Black Journal
Dreamscape