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Max von Sydow (/ f ɒ n ˈ s iː d oʊ /, Swedish: [fɔn ˈsy̌ːdɔv] ⓘ; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages.
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.
- April 10, 1929
- March 8, 2020
Last week the announcement came down the Internet Entertainment Pipeline that the controversial, sexual-assault-centric HBO series “Game Of Thrones” would be getting a new cast member, an 86-year-old screen veteran named Max von Sydow.
Max von Sydow (1929–2020) was a Swedish-French actor, active in both European and American cinema. Von Sydow started his cinematic career in his native country in 1949 and two of his most memorable roles include Knight Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal (1957), the first of his eleven films with director Ingmar Bergman, and the film that ...
YearTitleRoleDirector2021Echoes of the Past (Greek Title: ...Nikolas Andreou (aged)Nicholas Dimitropoulos2018Vladimir Petrenko2016The Undertaker2015Lor San TekkaMay 29, 2024 · Interested in the theatre from childhood, von Sydow studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm (1948–51). He established his reputation as one of Sweden’s most promising young actors at the Norrköping-Linköping Municipal Theatre (1951–53).
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Mar 10, 2020 · As the existentially pained knight Antonius Block, von Sydow is youthful but long-faced, unfulfilled but ruggedly handsome, barely hiding a smirk when he challenges Bengt Ekerot ’s cloaked Death to a game of chess—the loss of which, Block knows, would mean that he owes Death his life.
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Aug 13, 2015 · A performance of amazing, quiet authority, von Sydow reprised the role in John Boorman’s much-maligned 1977 “Exorcist II,” and, because his scenes flashed back to a demon origin story, he played the character as much closer to his own real age!
