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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

4 x 4

1965
as Kvist (segment "Uppehåll i myrlandet")

A Kiss Before Dying

1991
as Thor Carlsson

A che punto è la notte

1994
as Arcivescovo di Torino

Atlanten

1995
as Narrator

Awakenings

1990
as Dr. Peter Ingham

Bilder från lekstugan

2009
as (archive footage)

Black Journal

1977
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal

Branded

2012
as Marketing Guru

Brass Target

1978
as Shelley Martin Webber

Brink of Life

1958
as Harry Andersson, Stinas man

Captured - Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer

1995
as Narrator

Carl Jung: The Wisdom of the Dream

1989
as Carl Gustav Jung (voice)

Citizen X

1995
as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky

Code Name: Emerald

1985
as Jürgen Brausch

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

2000
as Himself

Conan the Barbarian

1982
as King Osric

Curse of the Ring

2004
as Eyvind

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures

2013
as Dr. Alistair Conis

Dreamscape

1984
as Doctor Paul Novotny

Duet for One

1987
as Dr. Louis Feldman

Dune

1984
as Doctor Kynes

Emotional Arithmetic

2008
as Jakob Bronski

En frusen dröm

1997
as S.A. Andrée

Europa

1991
as Narrator (voice)

Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977
as Father Lancaster Merrin

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011
as The Renter

Familjen Schedblad

1988
as Chefredaktör Lindström

Flash Gordon

1980
as The Emperor Ming

Footloose

1979
as Marcello Herrighe

Foxtrot

1976
as Larsen

Ghostbusters II

1989
as Vigo (voice)

Hamsun

1996
as Knut Hamsun

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986
as Frederick

Hawaii

1966
as Rev. Abner Hale

Heart of a Dog

1976
as Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski

Heidi

2005
as Uncle Alp

Here Is Your Life

1966
as Smålands-Pelle

Herr Sleeman kommer

1957
as Jägaren

Hidden Children

2004
as Valobra

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

1990
as Father Siemes

Hostile Waters

1997
as Admiral Chernavin

Hour of the Wolf

1968
as Johan Borg

Hurricane

1979
as Dr. Bascomb

Illustrious Corpses

1976
as Präsident des Obersten Gerichtshofs

Ingmar Bergman

1971
as Max von Sydow

Intacto

2001
as Samuel

Interlude in the Marshland

1965
as Alex Kvist

Jerusalem

1996
as Vicar

Judge Dredd

1995
as Chief Justice Fargo

Kojak: The Belarus File

1985
as Peter Barak

Kursk

2018
as Vladimir Petrenko

Kvartetten som sprängdes

1973
as ingenjör Planertz

La Mort en direct

1980
as Gerald Mortenhoe

La principessa e il povero

1997
as Epos

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

2007
as Papinou

Le cercle des passions

1983
as Carlo di Vilalfratti

Le dernier civil

1984
as Gaspard Bauerle

Les premiers, les derniers

2016
as Le croque-mort

Made in Sweden

1969
as Magnus Rud

March or Die

1977
as François Marneau

Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter

2012
as The Renter

Minority Report

2002
as Director Lamar Burgess

Miss Julie

1951
as Groom

Morfars resa

1993
as Simon S.L. Fromm

Needful Things

1993
as Leland Gaunt

Never Say Never Again

1983
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Nybyggarna

1972
as Karl-Oskar

Onkel Vanja

1994
as Professorn

Only a Mother

1949
as Nils

Oscar et la dame Rose

2009
as Dr Dusseldorf

Pelle the Conqueror

1987
as Lassefar

Private Confessions

1996
as Jacob

Queen: Greatest Video Hits

2002
as The Emperor Ming (segment "Flash")

Quo Vadis?

1985
as The Apostle Peter

Rabies

1958
as Bo Stensson Svenningson

Radetzkymarsch

1995
as Baron Franz von Trotta und Cipolje

Red King, White Knight

1989
as Szaz

Robin Hood

2010
as Sir Walter Loxley

Rush Hour 3

2007
as Varden Reynard

Rätten att älska

1956
as Bergman

Samson and Delilah

1984
as Sidka

Shame

1968
as Jan Rosenberg

She Dances Alone

1981
as Nijinsky

Shutter Island

2010
as Dr. Jeremiah Naehring

Sleepless

2001
as Moretti

Smultronstället

1957
as Henrik Åkerman

Snow Falling on Cedars

1999
as Nels Gudmundsson

Solomon

1997
as King David

Solomon Kane

2009
as Josiah Kane

Spion 503

1958
as Horst, Gestapo-mand

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015
as Lor San Tekka

Steppenwolf

1974
as Harry Haller

Strange Brew

1983
as Brewmeister Smith

Svarta palmkronor

1968
as Gustav Olofsson

Såsom i en spegel

1961
as Martin

Target Eagle

1984
as Coronel O'Donnell

The Apple War

1971
as Roy Lindberg

The Best Intentions

1992
as Johan Åkerblom

The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer

1982
as Presenter

The Desert of the Tartars

1976
as Cap. Ortiz

The Exorcist

1973
as Father Lankester Merrin

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

1998
as Himself - 'Fr. Merrin'

The Final Inquiry

2006
as Tiberius

The Flight of the Eagle

1982
as Salomon August Andrée

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965
as Jesus

The Ice Pirates

1984

The Kremlin Letter

1970
as Colonel Kosnov

The Last Norwegian Troll

2010
as The Last Norwegian Troll

The Last Place on Earth

1985
as Nansen

The Letters

2015
as Celeste van Exem

The Magician

1958
as Albert Emanuel Vogler

The Mistress

1962
as The Man

The New Land (1974)

as Karl-Oskar Nilsson

The Night Visitor

1971
as Salem

The Ox

1991
as Vicar

The Passion of Anna

1969
as Andreas Winkelman

The Quiller Memorandum

1966
as Oktober

The Repenter

1985
as Spinola

The Reward

1965
as Scott Swenson

The Second Victory

1987
as Dr. Huber

The Seventh Seal

1957
as Antonius Block

The Silent Touch

1992
as Henry Kesdi

The Soldiers's Tale

1984
as The Devil

The Touch

1971
as Andreas Vergerus

The Tudors

2007
as Cardinal Von Waldburg

The Ultimate Warrior

1975
as Baron

The Virgin Spring

1960
as Töre

The Wolf at the Door

1986
as August Strindberg

The bachelor

1990
as Von Schleheim

Three Days of the Condor

1975
as G. Joubert

Time is Money

1994
as Joe Kaufman

Trompe l'oeil

1975
as Matthew Lawrence

Un homme et son chien

2008
as Le commandant

Una vita scellerata

1990
as Pope Clement VII

Until the End of the World

1991
as Henry Farber

Utvandrarna

1971
as Karl Oskar

Utvandrarna

1974
as Karl Oskar Nilsson

Vercingétorix

2001
as Guttuart

Victory

1981
as Major Karl von Steiner

Voyage of the Damned

1976
as Captain Schroeder

What Dreams May Come

1998
as The Tracker

Winter Light

1963
as Jonas Persson

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

1962
as The Father

Ägget är löst!

1975
as The Father

Director

Movie Katinka 1988

Guest Star

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