Max von Sydow
Acting
Born 1929-04-10
Died 2020-03-08
Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
187 credits
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1
Sitges Grand Honorary Award 1
Knight of the Legion of Honour 1
Donostia Award 1
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 2012 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- 1989 Best Actor Nominated Pelle the Conqueror
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1 won
- — Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Won
Sitges Grand Honorary Award 1 won
- 2016 Sitges Grand Honorary Award Won
Knight of the Legion of Honour 1 won
- 2012 Knight of the Legion of Honour Won
Donostia Award 1 won
- 2006 Donostia Award Won
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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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Filmography
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Game of Thrones
The Simpsons
The Tudors
Golden Globe Awards
Shutter Island
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Exorcist
Grimme Award
Minority Report
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Dune
Ghostbusters II
Rush Hour 3
Conan the Barbarian
Judge Dredd
Robin Hood
Solomon Kane
Awakenings
The Seventh Seal
Never Say Never Again
Flash Gordon
What Dreams May Come
Escape to Victory
Christopher Columbus
Three Days of the Condor
The Guldbagge Awards
Citizen X
Nuremberg
Kursk
Wild Strawberries
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Hannah and Her Sisters
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Until the End of the World
Needful Things
Ring of the Nibelungs
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Magician
Winter Light
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Last Place on Earth
Hour of the Wolf
Branded
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Virgin Spring
Ring of the Nibelungs
Dreamscape
Shame
Quo Vadis?
A Kiss Before Dying
Voyage of the Damned
Hostile Waters
March or Die
Through a Glass Darkly
Pelle the Conqueror
The Quiller Memorandum
The Emigrants
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Black Journal
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
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