ACTOR · FROM LUND, SWEDEN
Max von Sydow
1929–2020162 credits since 1949
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ABOUT MAX
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.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Credits and photos from TMDB.
Born10 April 1929
Died8 March 2020
BirthplaceLund, Sweden
Known forActing
On Cineora103 of 162 titles
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- Titles on Cineora
- 103
- Average IMDb
- 6.7
- Highest rated
- Game of ThronesIMDb 9.2
- Working since
- 1949
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