Max von Sydow

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Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.When he was in high school, he and a few fellow students, including Yvonne Lombard, started a theatre club which encouraged his interest in acting. After conscription, he began to study at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school (1948-1951), together with Lars Ekborg, Margaretha Krook and Ingrid Thulin. His first role was as Nils the crofter in Alf Sjöberg's Bara en mor (1949). After graduation, he worked at the city theatres in Norrköping and Malmö.His work in the movies by Ingmar Bergman (especially Le septième sceau (1957), including the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death) made him well-known internationally, and he started to get offers from abroad. His career abroad began with him playing Jesus in La plus grande histoire jamais contée (1965); Hawaï (1966) and Le secret du rapport Quiller (1966). Since then, his career includes very different kind of characters, like Karl Oskar Nilsson in Les émigrants (1971); Father Lankester Merrin in L'exorciste (1973); Joubert the assassin in Les 3 jours du condor (1975), Emperor Ming in Flash Gordon (1980); the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the Jamais plus jamais (1983); Liet-Kynes in Dune (1984) the artist Frederick in Hannah et ses soeurs (1986); Lassefar in Pelle le conquérant (1987), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination; Dr. Peter Ingham in L'éveil (1990); Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002) and The Renter in Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près (2011), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination.He became one of Sweden's most admired and professional actors, and is the only male Swedish actor to receive an Oscar nomination. He was nominated twice: for Pelle le conquérant (1987) in 1988 and for Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près (2011) in 2012. He received the Guldbagge Award for Best Director in his directing debut, the drama film Ved vejen (1988). In 2016, he joined the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) as the Three-eyed Raven, which earned him his Primetime Emmy Award nomination.Max von Sydow died on March 8, 2020, in Provence, France, and was survived by his wife Catherine Brelet and four children. He was 90. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Mattias Thuresson

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Releases by Year

Max von Sydow on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1971 to 2014. See the full graphs of the number of Max von Sydow movies released per year from 1997 till 2014.

Top Genres

Max von Sydow works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Adventure Genre flixes. 39% of Max von Sydow movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Max von Sydow worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Max von Sydow has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

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When a 12 year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.

8.1/10122 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Drama,Western
The New Land (1972)

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

8/10202 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.

8/10191 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

When his wife dies, Lassefar (Max von Sydow) takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle (Pelle Hvenegaard), from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life. Signing on as laborers at ...

7.8/10157 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Mystery
Minority Report (2002)

In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

7.7/10145 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,Romance
The Best Intentions (1992)

In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.

7.7/10180 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Biography,Crime,Drama
Citizen X (1995)

During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.

7.5/10105 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Crime,Mystery,Thriller
Three Days of the Condor (1975)

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

7.4/10117 min

Available in 15 platform(s).