
Max von Sydow
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Biography
Max von Sydow (10 April 1929-8 March 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

Game of Thrones

The Simpsons

Golden Globe Awards

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

The Tudors

Dune

Ghostbusters II

Wild Strawberries

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Awakenings

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

Judge Dredd

Intact

Solomon Kane

Three Days of the Condor

Exorcist II: The Heretic

What Dreams May Come

Shutter Island

Rush Hour 3

The Exorcist

Flash Gordon

Minority Report

Hostile Waters

Never Say Never Again

Escape to Victory

Citizen X

Robin Hood

Conan the Barbarian

Red King, White Knight

Heidi

Needful Things

The Virgin Spring

The New Land

The Emigrants
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