Max von Sydow

ActorDirector Apr 10 (died age 90) Lund, Skåne län, Sweden 1944–2025 (81 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Shutter Island

Dr. Naehring

Film

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Lor San Tekka

Film

The Exorcist

Father Lankester Merrin

Film

Minority Report

Director Lamar Burgess

Film

The Seventh Seal

Antonius Block

Film

Awakenings

Peter Ingham

Film

Wild Strawberries

Åkerman

Film

What Dreams May Come

The Tracker

Filmography

Acting (186)

Movies (165)

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025

as Self - (archive footage)

Echoes of the Past

2021

as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)

6.6

Kursk

2018

as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko

6.6

Tuschinski's Dream

2017

Max von Sydow

2017

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

The First, the Last

2016

as Le croque-mort

6.4

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

as Lor San Tekka

The Letters

as Celeste van Exem

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures

2013

as Dr. Alistair Conis

Branded

as Marketing Guru

Palme

as Self (archive footage)

7.6

Starring Sigmund Freud

2012

Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter

2012

as Self

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011

as The Renter

7.0

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

as Self

Shutter Island

as Dr. Naehring

Robin Hood

as Sir Walter Loxley

The Wolfman

as Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)

5.9

Behind the Moomins

2010

as Narrator (voice)

The Last Norwegian Troll

2010

as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)

6.7

Solomon Kane

2009

as Josiah Kane

6.0

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

2009

as Le docteur Dusseldorf

A Man and His Dog

as Le commandant

Emotional Arithmetic

as Jakob Bronski

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

as Papinou

Rush Hour 3

as Varden Reynard

The Final Inquiry

as Tiberius

Heidi

as Uncle Alp

Ring of the Nibelungs

as Eyvind

Hidden Children

as Valobra

Minority Report

as Director Lamar Burgess

Sleepless

as Moretti

Intacto

as Samuel

Druids

as Guttuart

Light Keeps Me Company

2000

as Self

7.8

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

2000

as Freud

5.7

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

2000

as Self

6.7

Snow Falling on Cedars

as Nels Gudmundsson

What Dreams May Come

as The Tracker

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

1998

as Self - Father Merrin

7.3

Their Frozen Dream

1997

as S.A. Andrée (voice)

Solomon

as Davide

Hostile Waters

as Admiral Chernavin

The Princess and the Pauper

as Epos

Hamsun

as Knut Hamsun

Private Confessions

as Jacob

Jerusalem

as Vicar

Delblanc

as Narrator (voice)

Judge Dredd

1995

as Chief Justice Fargo

5.8

Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer

1995

as Narrator (voice)

Citizen X

1995

as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky

7.2

Lumière & Company

1995

as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")

6.2

Stjärnbilder

1995

as (archive footage)

The Atlantic

as Narrator (voice)

Depth Solitude

as Narrator (voice)

Onkel Vanja

as The Professor

Time is Money

as Joe Kaufman

Needful Things

as Leland Gaunt

Minns ni?

as (archive footage)

Morfars resa

1993

as Simon S.L. Fromm

Och ge oss skuggorna

as Eugene O'Neill

The Silent Touch

as Henry Kesdi

The Best Intentions

as Johan Åkerblom

Until the End of the World

as Henry Farber

Europa

as Narrator (voice)

A Kiss Before Dying

as Thor Carlsson

The Ox

as Vicar

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

1991

as Narrator (voice)

Awakenings

1990

as Peter Ingham

7.8

The Bachelor

1990

as Von Schleheim

Cellini: A Violent Life

as Pope Clement VII

Father

as Joe Mueller

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

1990

as Father Siemes

5.8

Ghostbusters II

1989

as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)

6.6

Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood

1989

as Self

Red King, White Knight

1989

as Szaz

6.0

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

1988

as Voice

The Human Factor

1988

Pelle the Conqueror

1987

as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand

The Second Victory

as Dr. Huber

Duet for One

as Dr. Louis Feldman

Hannah and Her Sisters

as Frederick

The Wolf at the Door

as August Strindberg

The Repenter

as Spinola

Code Name: Emerald

as Jürgen Brausch

Kojak The Belarus File

1985

as Peter Barak

6.0

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

as Self

Dune

as Doctor Kynes

Le dernier civil

as Gérard Bauerle

Dreamscape

as Paul Novotny

Samson and Delilah

as Sidka

The Soldier's Tale

as The Devil (voice)

Never Say Never Again

1983

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

6.1

Circle of Passions

1983

as Carlo di Vilalfratti

Strange Brew

as Brewmeister Smith

Destination Dune

as Self

Conan the Barbarian

as King Osric

The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer

1982

5.8

Let Poland Be Poland

1982

as Self - Co-Host

The Flight of the Eagle

1982

as Salomon August Andrée

Target Eagle

as Coronel O'Donnell

Escape to Victory

as Major Karl von Steiner

Venetian Lies

as Marcello Herrighe

She Dances Alone

as Nijinsky (voice)

Flash Gordon

as The Emperor Ming

Death Watch

as Gerald Mortenhoe

Hurricane

as Dr. Danielsson

A Look at Liv

as Self

Brass Target

1978

as Shelley Martin Webber

5.4

Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977

as Father Lankester Merrin

March or Die

as François Marneau

Black Journal

as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal

5.3

Heart of a Dog

1976

as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski

5.6

Illustrious Corpses

1976

as Supreme Court President

Voyage of the Damned

as Captain Schroeder

Foxtrot

as Larsen

The Desert of the Tartars

1976

as Cap. Ortiz

6.8

Three Days of the Condor

as G. Joubert

The Ultimate Warrior

as Baron

Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story

as The Father

The Broken Mirror

as Matthew Lawrence

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

1974

as Self (archive footage)

Steppenwolf

as Harry Haller

The Exorcist

as Father Lankester Merrin

Embassy

as Gorenko

The New Land

as Karl Oskar

Ingmar Bergman

as Self

The Apple War

as Roy Lindberg

The Touch

as Andreas Vergerus

The Emigrants

as Karl Oskar

The Night Visitor

as Salem

The Kremlin Letter

as Colonel Kosnov

The Passion of Anna

as Andreas Winkelman

Made in Sweden

as Magnus Rud

Shame

as Jan Rosenberg

Hour of the Wolf

as Johan Borg

Black Palm Trees

as Gustav Olofsson

An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman

1968

as Self

The Diary of Anne Frank

1967

as Otto Frank

6.0

The Quiller Memorandum

as Oktober

Hawaii

as Abner Hale

Here Is Your Life

as Smålands-Pelle

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Jesus

The Reward

as Scott Swenson

4 x 4

as Kvist

Interlude in the Marshland

1965

as Alex Kvist

7.2

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

1964

as Self

Winter Light

as Jonas Persson

The Mistress

as The Man

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

1962

as The Father

5.7

Through a Glass Darkly

as Martin

The Virgin Spring

as Töre

The Wedding Day

as Anders Frost

Rabies

1958

as Bo Stensson Svenningson

6.0

The Magician

1958

as Albert Emanuel Vogler

Brink of Life

as Harry Andersson

Spion 503

as Horst, Gestapo-mand

The Seventh Seal

as Antonius Block

Wild Strawberries

as Åkerman

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

1957

as Hunter

5.5

The Minister of Uddarbo

1957

as Gustaf Ömark

The Right to Love

as Bergman

Ingen mans kvinna

as Olof

Miss Julie

as Groom

Only a Mother

as Nils

Television (21)

Game of Thrones

2011

as Three-Eyed Raven

8.5

The Tudors

2007

as Cardinal Von Waldburg

7.8

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

2007

as Tiberio

5.0

Ring of the Nibelungs

as Eyvind

Nuremberg

as Samuel Rosenman

Professione fantasma

as Psicoanalista dell’aldilà

6.0

Solomon

1997

as David

La principessa e il povero

1997

as Epos

Radetzky March

1995

as Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje

5.1

A che punto è la notte

1994

as Arcivescovo di Torino

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992

as Sigmund Freud

6.5

The Simpsons

1989

as Klaus Ziegler (voice)

8.0

Gösta Berlings saga

1986

as Melchior Sinclaire

10.0

Christopher Columbus

1985

as Re Giovanni del Portogallo

5.3

The Last Place on Earth

as Fridtjof Nansen

Quo Vadis?

as Petrus

The Guldbagge Awards

as Self - Host

The Guldbagge Awards

as Self - Best Actor winner

The Emigrants

as Karl Oskar

Grimme Award

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

1944

as Self - Nominee / Presenter

7.2

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Katinka

1988

Director

4.3