Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
165
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 10, 1929 ( 91 years old )
Place of Birth
Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
Also Known As
Max Carl Adolf von Sydow
Max Von Sydow
Макс фон Сюдов
Carl Adolf von Sydow
Max von Sydow
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).
Known For
Minority Report
2002-06-20Det sjunde inseglet
1957-02-16Smultronstället
1957-08-28Hostile Waters
1997-10-18Snow Falling on Cedars
1999-12-22Dune
1984-12-14Max von Sydow
2017-03-07The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965-04-09Bis ans Ende der Welt
1991-09-12Needful Things
1993-08-27