credits of
Max von Sydow
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).
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
April 9th, 2026 | The Resurrection of Christ | TBD | TBD | |
November 11th, 2021 | Echoes of the Past | Nikolas Andreou (Aged) | 6.6 | |
November 7th, 2018 | Kursk | Admiral Vladimir Petrenko | 6.6 | |
June 1st, 2017 | Tuschinski's Dream | TBD | TBD | |
March 7th, 2017 | Max von Sydow | Self (archive footage) | 10 | |
January 27th, 2016 | The First, the Last | Le croque-mort | 6.4 | |
December 15th, 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Lor San Tekka | 7.2 | |
February 23rd, 2014 | The Letters | Celeste van Exem | 5.5 | |
June 28th, 2013 | Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures | Dr. Alistair Conis | 5.5 | |
November 1st, 2012 | Starring Sigmund Freud | TBD | TBD | |
September 14th, 2012 | Palme | Self (archive footage) | 7.6 | |
September 6th, 2012 | Branded | Marketing Guru | 4.7 | |
March 27th, 2012 | Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter | Self | TBD | |
December 25th, 2011 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | The Renter | 7 | |
October 25th, 2011 | Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self | 6 | |
August 21st, 2010 | The Last Norwegian Troll | The Last Norweigian Troll (voice) | 6.7 | |
August 6th, 2010 | Behind the Moomins | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
May 12th, 2010 | Robin Hood | Sir Walter Loxley | 6.4 | |
February 14th, 2010 | Shutter Island | Dr. Naehring | 8.2 | |
December 23rd, 2009 | Solomon Kane | Josiah Kane | 6 | |
November 15th, 2009 | Oscar and the Lady in Pink | Le docteur Dusseldorf | 6.5 | |
January 14th, 2009 | A Man and His Dog | Le commandant | 5.8 | |
April 18th, 2008 | Emotional Arithmetic | Jakob Bronski | 5.5 | |
August 8th, 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | Varden Reynard | 6.5 | |
May 23rd, 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Papinou | 7.6 | |
April 4th, 2007 | The Final Inquiry | Tiberius | 4.8 | |
August 19th, 2005 | Heidi | Uncle Alp | 7.7 | |
November 19th, 2004 | Ring of the Nibelungs | Eyvind | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 2004 | Hidden Children | Valobra | 6.1 | |
June 20th, 2002 | Minority Report | Director Lamar Burgess | 7.4 | |
November 6th, 2001 | Intacto | Samuel | 6.6 | |
January 24th, 2001 | Druids | Guttuart | 3.2 | |
January 5th, 2001 | Sleepless | Moretti | 6.1 | |
September 19th, 2000 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid | Freud | 5.7 | |
August 26th, 2000 | Light Keeps Me Company | Self | 7.9 | |
May 30th, 2000 | Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' | Self | 6.8 | |
December 22nd, 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Nels Gudmundsson | 6.1 | |
October 2nd, 1998 | What Dreams May Come | The Tracker | 7.2 | |
June 13th, 1998 | The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist | Self - Father Merrin | 7.4 | |
December 15th, 1997 | Solomon | Davide | 6.7 | |
December 2nd, 1997 | The Princess and the Pauper | Epos | 6.1 | |
October 18th, 1997 | Hostile Waters | Admiral Chernavin | 6.1 | |
October 3rd, 1997 | Their Frozen Dream | S.A. Andrée (voice) | 6.3 | |
December 25th, 1996 | Private Confessions | Jacob | 6.2 | |
September 6th, 1996 | Jerusalem | Vicar | 7.3 | |
April 19th, 1996 | Hamsun | Knut Hamsun | 7.2 | |
January 5th, 1996 | Delblanc | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
December 20th, 1995 | Lumière & Company | Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman") | 6.3 | |
November 26th, 1995 | Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
September 10th, 1995 | Stjärnbilder | (archive footage) | 10 | |
June 30th, 1995 | Judge Dredd | Chief Justice Fargo | 5.9 | |
April 7th, 1995 | The Atlantic | Narrator (voice) | 6.5 | |
February 25th, 1995 | Citizen X | Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky | 7.2 | |
January 1st, 1995 | Depth Solitude | Narrator (voice) | 6 | |
December 26th, 1994 | Onkel Vanja | The Professor | 8 | |
October 19th, 1994 | Time is Money | Joe Kaufman | 7 | |
October 24th, 1993 | Minns ni? | (archive footage) | TBD | |
August 27th, 1993 | Needful Things | Leland Gaunt | 6.3 | |
January 29th, 1993 | Morfars resa | Simon S.L. Fromm | 7 | |
January 6th, 1993 | Och ge oss skuggorna | Eugene O'Neill | 8.5 | |
September 30th, 1992 | The Silent Touch | Henry Kesdi | 5 | |
May 24th, 1992 | The Best Intentions | Johan Åkerblom | 7 | |
November 22nd, 1991 | The Ox | Vicar | 6.6 | |
September 12th, 1991 | Until the End of the World | Henry Farber | 6.7 | |
August 17th, 1991 | East of the Sun, West of the Moon | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
June 27th, 1991 | Europa | Narrator (voice) | 7.4 | |
April 26th, 1991 | A Kiss Before Dying | Thor Carlsson | 5.6 | |
December 4th, 1990 | Awakenings | Peter Ingham | 7.8 | |
August 16th, 1990 | Father | Joe Mueller | 5.7 | |
August 6th, 1990 | Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes | Father Siemes | 6 | |
May 2nd, 1990 | Cellini: A Violent Life | Pope Clement VII | 5.4 | |
March 29th, 1990 | The Bachelor | Von Schleheim | 9 | |
November 25th, 1989 | Red King, White Knight | Szaz | 6.4 | |
June 16th, 1989 | Ghostbusters II | Vigo (voice) (uncredited) | 6.6 | |
January 1st, 1989 | Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood | Self | TBD | |
May 24th, 1988 | Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern | Voice | TBD | |
January 1st, 1988 | The Human Factor | TBD | TBD | |
December 21st, 1987 | Pelle the Conqueror | Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand | 7.3 | |
June 4th, 1987 | The Second Victory | Dr. Huber | 6.5 | |
December 25th, 1986 | Duet for One | Dr. Louis Feldman | 5.4 | |
September 5th, 1986 | The Wolf at the Door | August Strindberg | 5.3 | |
February 7th, 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Frederick | 7.5 | |
November 15th, 1985 | The Repenter | Spinola | 6.3 | |
September 7th, 1985 | Code Name: Emerald | Jürgen Brausch | 6.6 | |
March 3rd, 1985 | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self | 5.8 | |
February 16th, 1985 | Kojak The Belarus File | Peter Barak | 6.8 | |
December 14th, 1984 | Dune | Doctor Kynes | 6.2 | |
November 29th, 1984 | The Soldier's Tale | The Devil (voice) | 6.9 | |
November 4th, 1984 | Le dernier civil | Gérard Bauerle | 7 | |
August 15th, 1984 | Dreamscape | Paul Novotny | 6.1 | |
March 31st, 1984 | Samson and Delilah | Sidka | 5.1 | |
October 7th, 1983 | Never Say Never Again | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | 6.1 | |
August 26th, 1983 | Strange Brew | Brewmeister Smith | 6 | |
July 6th, 1983 | Circle of Passions | Carlo di Vilalfratti | 4 | |
January 1st, 1983 | Destination Dune | Self | 6.5 | |
September 10th, 1982 | Target Eagle | Coronel O'Donnell | 5.5 | |
August 26th, 1982 | The Flight of the Eagle | Salomon August Andrée | 7 | |
May 30th, 1982 | The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer | TBD | 5.8 | |
March 16th, 1982 | Conan the Barbarian | King Osric | 6.8 | |
January 31st, 1982 | Let Poland Be Poland | Self - Co-Host | TBD | |
June 25th, 1981 | Venetian Lies | Marcello Herrighe | 6.1 | |
June 17th, 1981 | Escape to Victory | Major Karl von Steiner | 6.9 | |
May 31st, 1981 | She Dances Alone | Nijinsky (voice) | 10 | |
December 5th, 1980 | Flash Gordon | The Emperor Ming | 6.2 | |
January 23rd, 1980 | Death Watch | Gerald Mortenhoe | 6.3 | |
April 12th, 1979 | Hurricane | Dr. Danielsson | 4.8 | |
January 31st, 1979 | A Look at Liv | Self | 10 | |
December 22nd, 1978 | Brass Target | Shelley Martin Webber | 5.5 | |
November 24th, 1977 | Black Journal | Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal | 5.5 | |
September 8th, 1977 | March or Die | François Marneau | 5.8 | |
June 17th, 1977 | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Father Lankester Merrin | 4.5 | |
December 22nd, 1976 | Voyage of the Damned | Captain Schroeder | 6 | |
October 29th, 1976 | The Desert of the Tartars | Cap. Ortiz | 6.8 | |
March 1st, 1976 | Foxtrot | Larsen | 4.8 | |
February 12th, 1976 | Illustrious Corpses | Supreme Court President | 6.8 | |
January 23rd, 1976 | Heart of a Dog | Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski | 5.9 | |
October 2nd, 1975 | The Ultimate Warrior | Baron | 5.8 | |
September 24th, 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | G. Joubert | 7.3 | |
April 2nd, 1975 | The Broken Mirror | Matthew Lawrence | 7 | |
March 17th, 1975 | Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story | The Father | 5.9 | |
December 18th, 1974 | Steppenwolf | Harry Haller | 5.9 | |
February 20th, 1974 | The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | 7.7 | |
December 26th, 1973 | The Exorcist | Father Lankester Merrin | 7.7 | |
March 17th, 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | Self | 6.2 | |
March 2nd, 1972 | Embassy | Gorenko | 6.5 | |
February 26th, 1972 | The New Land | Karl Oskar | 7.5 | |
December 18th, 1971 | The Apple War | Roy Lindberg | 6 | |
July 14th, 1971 | The Touch | Andreas Vergerus | 5.9 | |
March 8th, 1971 | The Emigrants | Karl Oskar | 7.4 | |
February 10th, 1971 | The Night Visitor | Salem | 6.5 | |
February 1st, 1970 | The Kremlin Letter | Colonel Kosnov | 6 | |
November 10th, 1969 | The Passion of Anna | Andreas Winkelman | 7.5 | |
March 17th, 1969 | Made in Sweden | Magnus Rud | 7 | |
September 29th, 1968 | Shame | Jan Rosenberg | 7.5 | |
September 26th, 1968 | Black Palm Trees | Gustav Olofsson | 6.3 | |
April 14th, 1968 | An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman | Self | TBD | |
February 19th, 1968 | Hour of the Wolf | Johan Borg | 7.4 | |
November 26th, 1967 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Otto Frank | 8 | |
December 26th, 1966 | Here Is Your Life | Smålands-Pelle | 7 | |
November 10th, 1966 | The Quiller Memorandum | Oktober | 5.9 | |
October 10th, 1966 | Hawaii | Abner Hale | 6.3 | |
September 15th, 1965 | The Reward | Scott Swenson | 6 | |
April 9th, 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Jesus | 6.4 | |
February 25th, 1965 | 4 x 4 | Kvist | 7.3 | |
February 22nd, 1965 | Interlude in the Marshland | Alex Kvist | 7.2 | |
September 25th, 1964 | Dance Around the Guldbaggen | Self | TBD | |
February 11th, 1963 | Winter Light | Jonas Persson | 7.9 | |
September 12th, 1962 | Wonderful Adventures of Nils | The Father | 6.1 | |
February 19th, 1962 | The Mistress | The Man | 6 | |
October 16th, 1961 | Through a Glass Darkly | Martin | 7.8 | |
October 3rd, 1960 | The Wedding Day | Anders Frost | 7 | |
February 8th, 1960 | The Virgin Spring | Töre | 7.9 | |
December 26th, 1958 | The Magician | Albert Emanuel Vogler | 7.4 | |
November 7th, 1958 | Rabies | Bo Stensson Svenningson | 6.5 | |
August 29th, 1958 | Spion 503 | Horst, Gestapo-mand | 5.7 | |
March 31st, 1958 | Brink of Life | Harry Andersson | 7.5 | |
December 26th, 1957 | The Minister of Uddarbo | Gustaf Ömark | 8 | |
August 28th, 1957 | Wild Strawberries | Åkerman | 8.1 | |
April 18th, 1957 | Mr. Sleeman Is Coming | Hunter | 5.8 | |
February 16th, 1957 | The Seventh Seal | Antonius Block | 8.2 | |
February 27th, 1956 | The Right to Love | Bergman | 6 | |
November 9th, 1953 | No Man's Woman | Olof | 6.5 | |
June 28th, 1951 | Miss Julie | Groom | 6.6 | |
October 31st, 1949 | Only a Mother | Nils | 7.1 |