
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 Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Awakenings

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

Judge Dredd

Solomon Kane

Intact

Exorcist II: The Heretic

What Dreams May Come

The Exorcist

Shutter Island

Three Days of the Condor

Rush Hour 3

Citizen X

Conan the Barbarian

Escape to Victory

Never Say Never Again

Robin Hood

Minority Report

Flash Gordon

Hostile Waters

Red King, White Knight

Heidi

The New Land

Needful Things

The Virgin Spring

The Emigrants
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