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Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow) had a 70-year career in European and American film, television and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. He was one of the few actors to have played both God - in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), and the Devil - in Needful Things (1993).

Aliases
  • Max Von Sydow
English
Filmography

Shutter Island

2010
as Dr. Jeremiah Naehring

The Exorcist

1973
as Father Lankester Merrin

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015
as Lor San Tekka

Robin Hood

2010
as Sir Walter Loxley

The Tudors

2007
as Cardinal Von Waldburg

Minority Report

2002
as Director Lamar Burgess

The Seventh Seal

1957
as Antonius Block

Solomon Kane

2009
as Josiah Kane

Judge Dredd

1995
as Chief Justice Fargo

What Dreams May Come

1998
as The Tracker

Rush Hour 3

2007
as Varden Reynard

Ghostbusters II

1989
as Vigo (voice)

Conan the Barbarian

1982
as King Osric

Never Say Never Again

1983
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Dune

1984
as Doctor Kynes

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011
as The Renter

Awakenings

1990
as Dr. Peter Ingham

Until the End of the World

1991
as Henry Farber

Kursk

2018
as Vladimir Petrenko

Voyage of the Damned

1976
as Captain Schroeder

Three Days of the Condor

1975
as G. Joubert

The Desert of the Tartars

1976
as Cap. Ortiz

Duet for One

1987
as Dr. Louis Feldman

Carl Jung: The Wisdom of the Dream

1989
as Carl Gustav Jung (voice)

Hour of the Wolf

1968
as Johan Borg

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

1998
as Himself - 'Fr. Merrin'

Smultronstället

1957
as Henrik Åkerman

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

1990
as Father Siemes

Hawaii

1966
as Rev. Abner Hale

A che punto è la notte

1994
as Arcivescovo di Torino

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

2007
as Papinou

Rätten att älska

1956
as Bergman

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

2000
as Himself

En frusen dröm

1997
as S.A. Andrée

Utvandrarna

1974
as Karl Oskar Nilsson

Bilder från lekstugan

2009
as (archive footage)

Winter Light

1963
as Jonas Persson

The Wolf at the Door

1986
as August Strindberg

The Repenter

1985
as Spinola

Snow Falling on Cedars

1999
as Nels Gudmundsson

The Quiller Memorandum

1966
as Oktober

The Best Intentions

1992
as Johan Åkerblom

Heidi

2005
as Uncle Alp

Interlude in the Marshland

1965
as Alex Kvist

Ingmar Bergman

1971
as Max von Sydow

The New Land (1974)

as Karl-Oskar Nilsson

Oscar et la Dame Rose

2009
as Dr Dusseldorf

La principessa e il povero

1997
as Epos

Curse of the Ring

2004
as Eyvind

The Touch

1971
as Andreas Vergerus

The Silent Touch

1992
as Henry Kesdi

Needful Things

1993
as Leland Gaunt

Dreamscape

1984
as Doctor Paul Novotny

Made in Sweden

1969
as Magnus Rud

Trompe l'oeil

1975
as Matthew Lawrence

Black Journal

1977
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal

The Reward

1965
as Scott Swenson

The Ultimate Warrior

1975
as Baron

Brass Target

1978
as Shelley Martin Webber

Onkel Vanja

1994
as Professorn

Utvandrarna

1971
as Karl Oskar

Red King, White Knight

1989
as Szaz

Les premiers, les derniers

2016
as Le croque-mort

The Apple War

1971
as Roy Lindberg

Radetzkymarsch

1995
as Baron Franz von Trotta und Cipolje

Jerusalem

1996
as Vicar

Branded

2012
as Marketing Guru

The Flight of the Eagle

1982
as Salomon August Andrée

Captured - Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer

1995
as Narrator

Samson and Delilah

1984
as Sidka

Morfars resa

1993
as Simon S.L. Fromm

Hostile Waters

1997
as Admiral Chernavin

Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977
as Father Lancaster Merrin

Foxtrot

1976
as Larsen

Le cercle des passions

1983
as Carlo di Vilalfratti

La Mort en direct

1980
as Gerald Mortenhoe

The Mistress

1962
as The Man

The Night Visitor

1971
as Salem

The Ice Pirates

1984

Intacto

2001
as Samuel

Private Confessions

1996
as Jacob

Atlanten

1995
as Narrator

Sleepless

2001
as Moretti

Queen: Greatest Video Hits

2002
as The Emperor Ming (segment "Flash")

Nybyggarna

1972
as Karl-Oskar

Only a Mother

1949
as Nils

Såsom i en spegel

1961
as Martin

The Last Place on Earth

1985
as Nansen

Code Name: Emerald

1985
as Jürgen Brausch

Hidden Children

2004
as Valobra

The Soldiers's Tale

1984
as The Devil

Footloose

1979
as Marcello Herrighe

Heart of a Dog

1976
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski

The Last Norwegian Troll

2010
as The Last Norwegian Troll

Citizen X

1995
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky

The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer

1982
as Presenter

Here Is Your Life

1966
as Smålands-Pelle

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

1962
as The Father

Ägget är löst!

1975
as The Father

4 x 4

1965
as Kvist (segment "Uppehåll i myrlandet")

Shame

1968
as Jan Rosenberg

March or Die

1977
as François Marneau

The Ox

1991
as Vicar

Europa

1991
as Narrator (voice)

Steppenwolf

1974
as Harry Haller

A Kiss Before Dying

1991
as Thor Carlsson

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965
as Jesus

Flash Gordon

1980
as The Emperor Ming

Vercingétorix

2001
as Guttuart

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures

2013
as Dr. Alistair Conis

Un homme et son chien

2008
as Le commandant

Le dernier civil

1984
as Gaspard Bauerle

The Second Victory

1987
as Dr. Huber

The bachelor

1990
as Von Schleheim

Time is Money

1994
as Joe Kaufman

Solomon

1997
as King David

Victory

1981
as Major Karl von Steiner

The Final Inquiry

2006
as Tiberius

Hurricane

1979
as Dr. Bascomb

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986
as Frederick

She Dances Alone

1981
as Nijinsky

Herr Sleeman kommer

1957
as Jägaren

The Letters

2015
as Celeste van Exem

Illustrious Corpses

1976
as Präsident des Obersten Gerichtshofs

Target Eagle

1984
as Coronel O'Donnell

Spion 503

1958
as Horst, Gestapo-mand

Strange Brew

1983
as Brewmeister Smith

Emotional Arithmetic

2008
as Jakob Bronski

Hamsun

1996
as Knut Hamsun

Pelle the Conqueror

1987
as Lassefar

Kvartetten som sprängdes

1973
as ingenjör Planertz

The Magician

1958
as Albert Emanuel Vogler

The Kremlin Letter

1970
as Colonel Kosnov

Familjen Schedblad

1988
as Chefredaktör Lindström

Svarta palmkronor

1968
as Gustav Olofsson

Quo Vadis?

1985
as The Apostle Peter

Brink of Life

1958
as Harry Andersson, Stinas man

Rabies

1958
as Bo Stensson Svenningson

The Passion of Anna

1969
as Andreas Winkelman

Kojak: The Belarus File

1985
as Peter Barak

The Virgin Spring

1960
as Töre

Una vita scellerata

1990
as Pope Clement VII

Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter

2012
as The Renter

Miss Julie

1951
as Groom

Director

Movie Katinka 1988

Guest Star

Episode Screen One
Hostile Waters 		1997
Episode The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
The Perils of Cupid 		1999
Episode Kojak
The Belarus File 		1985
Episode The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
The Perils of Cupid, Vienna, November 1908 		1993
Episode The Simpsons
The War of Art 		2014