Max von Sydow

Q: Did Max von Sydow win any major awards?

Max von Sydow received two Academy Award nominations during his career. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for 'The Exorcist' and for Best Actor for 'Pelle the Conqueror.'

Q: What was Max von Sydow's first film?

Max von Sydow's first film was 'Only a Mother' (1949), where he played a supporting role. This marked the beginning of his long and successful acting career.

Q: How many languages could Max von Sydow speak?

Max von Sydow was fluent in several languages, including Swedish, English, French, and German. This linguistic ability allowed him to take on diverse roles across international cinema.

Q: What was the significance of Max von Sydow's role in 'The Exorcist'?

In 'The Exorcist' (1973), Max von Sydow portrayed Father Merrin, a role that became iconic. His performance contributed to the film's status as a classic in the horror genre.

Q: What was Max von Sydow's estimated net worth?

Max von Sydow's estimated net worth was around $10 million at the time of his passing. His wealth was accumulated through decades of work in film and television.

Q: What was Max von Sydow's contribution to international cinema?

Max von Sydow was a prominent figure in both European and American cinema. His collaborations with acclaimed directors like Ingmar Bergman and his roles in Hollywood films helped bridge cultural gaps in filmmaking.

Q: What was Max von Sydow's last film?

Max von Sydow's last film was 'Kong: Skull Island' (2017), where he played the character of a government official. This marked a notable entry in his extensive filmography before his passing.

Known for

Shutter Island (2010)

2010 / Mystery, Thriller / 138mins

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are...

Minority Report (2002)

IMDb 7.6 / 10

2002 / Action, Crime / 145 min

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry...

The Exorcist (1973)

IMDb 8.1 / 10

1973 / Horror / 122 min

12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between...

Name

Max von Sydow

Height

6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)

Born

10 April 1929, Lund, Sweden

Spouses

Christina Inga Britta Olin (1970–2020)

Children

2 (Andreas von Sydow, Clas von Sydow)

Parents

Gustaf von Sydow, Karin von Sydow

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie The Resurrection of Christ The story of Jesus Christ has been portrayed countless times throughout the history of cinema, from the chaste and embryonic...	Unknown character	Not rated
2021	Movie Echoes of the Past A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels...	Nikolas Andreou (Aged)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Kursk Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine...	Admiral Vladimir Petrenko	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	Movie Tuschinski's Dream After 50 years of exile, an old man comes back to the cinema of his childhood. The Tuschinski Theater of...	Unknown character	Not rated
2017	Movie Max von Sydow One of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, von Sydow is best known for his long creative partnership with...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2016	Movie The First, the Last Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...	Le croque-mort	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2015	Movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo...	Lor San Tekka	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2014	Movie I Am Divine Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status...	Self (archive)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2014	Movie The Letters Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless...	Celeste van Exem	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2013	Movie Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures Audiences join two peculiar characters, an unusual dream therapist and his mysterious patient, as they dig up "live" spectacular reenacted...	Dr. Alistair Conis	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2012	Movie Starring Sigmund Freud Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published...	Unknown character	Not rated
2012	Movie Palme Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm....	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2012	Movie Branded In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind...	Marketing Guru	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2012	Movie Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter A documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow.	Self	Not rated
2011	Movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for...	The Renter	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also delighted audiences with...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	TV Game of Thrones Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war....	Three-Eyed Raven	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2010	Movie The Last Norwegian Troll In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young...	The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2010	Movie Behind the Moomins Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2010	Movie Robin Hood When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family...	Sir Walter Loxley	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2010	Movie Shutter Island World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane,...	Dr. Naehring	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2009	Movie Solomon Kane A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some...	Josiah Kane	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie Oscar and the Lady in Pink Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell...	Le docteur Dusseldorf	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	Movie A Man and His Dog An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.	Le commandant	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2008	Movie Emotional Arithmetic An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite...	Jakob Bronski	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2007	Movie Rush Hour 3 After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names,...	Varden Reynard	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his...	Papinou	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2007	Movie The Final Inquiry In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain...	Tiberius	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2007	TV L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII	Tiberio	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2007	TV The Tudors The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who...	Cardinal Von Waldburg	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2005	Movie Heidi Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated...	Uncle Alp	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	TV Ring of the Nibelungs The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds...	Eyvind	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2004	Movie Ring of the Nibelungs In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But...	Eyvind	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2004	Movie Hidden Children This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German...	Valobra	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2002	Movie Minority Report John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But...	Director Lamar Burgess	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2001	Movie Intacto An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They...	Samuel	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2001	Movie Druids In the year 60 B.C. a group of Druids, including the arch-druid Guttuart (Max von Sydow), witness the passing of...	Guttuart	TMDB 3.2 / 10
2001	Movie Sleepless An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has...	Moretti	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2000	Movie The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke...	Freud	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2000	Movie Light Keeps Me Company Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator....	Self	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2000	TV Nuremberg Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.	Samuel Rosenman	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2000	Movie Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' Nearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the film....	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1999	Movie Snow Falling on Cedars In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the...	Nels Gudmundsson	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1998	Movie What Dreams May Come Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is...	The Tracker	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1998	Movie The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist A behind-the-scenes retrospective made for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the classic horror film, The Exorcist. Includes interviews with Linda Blair...	Self - Father Merrin	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1998	TV Professione fantasma Professione fantasma is an Italian television series.	Psicoanalista dell’aldilà	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie Solomon David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon,...	Davide	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1997	TV Solomon David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon....	David	Not rated
1997	TV La principessa e il povero	Epos	Not rated
1997	Movie The Princess and the Pauper A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.	Epos	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1997	Movie Hostile Waters Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing...	Admiral Chernavin	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1997	Movie Their Frozen Dream Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).	S.A. Andrée (voice)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1996	Movie Private Confessions Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla...	Jacob	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1996	Movie Jerusalem Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.	Vicar	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie Hamsun Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for...	Knut Hamsun	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1996	Movie Delblanc Portrait of the Swedish writer Sven Delblanc made up of interviews with friends and family along with excerpts of his...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1995	TV Radetzky March At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life...	Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1995	Movie Lumière & Company 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working...	Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1995	Movie Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer Bob Robinson (1927-1996) and American photographer living and working in many parts of the world. Norway was one place. His...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1995	Movie Stjärnbilder A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of...	(archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1995	Movie Judge Dredd In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to...	Chief Justice Fargo	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1995	Movie The Atlantic A documentary about the islands in the Atlantic, about the islanders and their stories.	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie Citizen X Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people....	Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1995	Movie Depth Solitude A philosophical swimming pool attendant lives his life at the bottom of a pool. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1994	Movie Onkel Vanja A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged...	The Professor	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1994	TV A che punto è la notte In Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to unravel the problem.	Arcivescovo di Torino	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1994	Movie Time is Money A grumpy writer resists his wife's and agent's attempts to goad him into completing his latest novel.	Joe Kaufman	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1993	Movie Minns ni? A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.	(archive footage)	Not rated
1993	Movie Needful Things A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper,...	Leland Gaunt	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1993	Movie Morfars resa Shortly after the end of the war Göran is forced to take care of his somewhat delirious grandfather who manages...	Simon S.L. Fromm	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1993	Movie Och ge oss skuggorna It is the 61st birthday of the American author Eugene O'Neill. He is sick, old and his name has started...	Eugene O'Neill	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1992	Movie The Silent Touch Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by...	Henry Kesdi	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1992	Movie The Best Intentions In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet...	Johan Åkerblom	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	TV The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to...	Sigmund Freud	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1991	Movie The Ox In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting...	Vicar	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1991	Movie Until the End of the World In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist...	Henry Farber	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1991	Movie East of the Sun, West of the Moon Hidden deep in the blue forest of Norway, there lived a peasant farmer and his family. In a fierce storm,...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1991	Movie Europa Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1991	Movie A Kiss Before Dying Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of...	Thor Carlsson	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1990	Movie Awakenings Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease....	Peter Ingham	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1990	Movie Father On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.	Joe Mueller	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1990	Movie Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and...	Father Siemes	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1990	Movie Cellini: A Violent Life The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy...	Pope Clement VII	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1990	Movie The Bachelor In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.	Von Schleheim	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1989	TV The Simpsons Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family;...	Klaus Ziegler (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1989	Movie Red King, White Knight The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for...	Szaz	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1989	Movie Ghostbusters II The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to...	Vigo (voice) (uncredited)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1989	Movie Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines...	Self	Not rated
1988	Movie Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies"...	Voice	Not rated
1988	Movie The Human Factor The film is based on some metaphors written by Hans Viksten and recited by Max von Sydow, supplemented by speakerless...	Unknown character	Not rated
1987	Movie Pelle the Conqueror In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of...	Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1987	Movie The Second Victory After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill...	Dr. Huber	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1986	Movie Duet for One When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves...	Dr. Louis Feldman	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1986	Movie The Wolf at the Door Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the...	August Strindberg	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1986	TV Gösta Berlings saga	Melchior Sinclaire	TMDB 9.5 / 10
1986	Movie Hannah and Her Sisters Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with...	Frederick	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1985	Movie The Repenter A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and...	Spinola	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1985	Movie Code Name: Emerald In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who...	Jürgen Brausch	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1985	TV Christopher Columbus After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain...	Re Giovanni del Portogallo	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1985	Movie George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1985	TV Quo Vadis? Drama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.	Petrus	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1985	TV The Last Place on Earth The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the...	Fridtjof Nansen	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1985	Movie Kojak: The Belarus File Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.	Peter Barak	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1984	Movie Dune In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The...	Doctor Kynes	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1984	Movie The Soldier's Tale A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none...	The Devil (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1984	Movie Le dernier civil	Gérard Bauerle	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1984	Movie Dreamscape In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter...	Paul Novotny	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1984	Movie Samson and Delilah A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the...	Sidka	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1983	Movie Never Say Never Again James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has...	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1983	Movie Strange Brew Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain...	Brewmeister Smith	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1983	Movie Circle of Passions An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he...	Carlo di Vilalfratti	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1983	Movie Destination Dune A short documentary that was originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity events in the lead-up to...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1982	Movie Target Eagle A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. Infiltrating the gang, he...	Coronel O'Donnell	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1982	Movie The Flight of the Eagle The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His...	Salomon August Andrée	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer	Unknown character	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1982	Movie Conan the Barbarian A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The...	King Osric	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1982	Movie Let Poland Be Poland Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US International Communication Agency...	Self - Co-Host	Not rated
1981	TV The Guldbagge Awards The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners...	Self - Host	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1981	TV The Guldbagge Awards The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners...	Self - Best Actor winner	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1981	TV The Guldbagge Awards The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners...	Self - Best Director winner	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1981	Movie Venetian Lies A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him.	Marcello Herrighe	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1981	Movie Escape to Victory A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in...	Major Karl von Steiner	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1981	Movie She Dances Alone Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to...	Nijinsky (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1980	Movie Flash Gordon A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the...	The Emperor Ming	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1980	Movie Death Watch In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle...	Gerald Mortenhoe	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1979	Movie Hurricane The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will...	Dr. Danielsson	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1979	Movie A Look at Liv Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1978	Movie Brass Target General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he...	Shelley Martin Webber	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1977	Movie Black Journal A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims...	Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1977	Movie March or Die Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is...	François Marneau	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1977	Movie Exorcist II: The Heretic Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can...	Father Lankester Merrin	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1976	Movie Voyage of the Damned A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.	Captain Schroeder	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1976	Movie The Desert of the Tartars Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome...	Cap. Ortiz	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1976	Movie Foxtrot A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.	Larsen	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1976	Movie Illustrious Corpses A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.	Supreme Court President	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1976	Movie Heart of a Dog Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a...	Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1975	Movie The Ultimate Warrior Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own turf....	Baron	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1975	Movie Three Days of the Condor When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must...	G. Joubert	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1975	Movie The Broken Mirror Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she...	Matthew Lawrence	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1975	Movie Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in...	The Father	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1974	Movie Steppenwolf In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary...	Harry Haller	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1974	TV The Emigrants Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing...	Karl Oskar	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1974	Movie The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1973	Movie The Exorcist When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her...	Father Lankester Merrin	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1972	Movie Ingmar Bergman Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the...	Self	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1972	Movie Embassy A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by...	Gorenko	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1972	Movie The New Land A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of...	Karl Oskar	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1971	Movie The Apple War A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland"...	Roy Lindberg	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1971	Movie The Touch A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with an American archaeologist, unaware of his emotional scars as a Holocaust survivor;...	Andreas Vergerus	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1971	Movie The Emigrants Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing...	Karl Oskar	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1971	Movie The Night Visitor An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.	Salem	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1970	Movie The Kremlin Letter After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval...	Colonel Kosnov	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1969	Movie The Passion of Anna A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.	Andreas Winkelman	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1969	Movie Made in Sweden Joergen (Per Myberg) is the Swedish journalist who uncovers a gun-running operation on the borders of Vietnam. The trail leads...	Magnus Rud	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1968	Movie Shame In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on...	Jan Rosenberg	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1968	Movie Black Palm Trees Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they...	Gustav Olofsson	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1968	Movie An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director...	Self	Not rated
1968	Movie Hour of the Wolf While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting...	Johan Borg	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1967	Movie The Diary of Anne Frank During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the...	Otto Frank	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1966	Movie Here Is Your Life A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that...	Smålands-Pelle	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1966	Movie The Quiller Memorandum After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix,...	Oktober	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1966	Movie Hawaii Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic...	Abner Hale	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1965	Movie The Reward A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.	Scott Swenson	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1965	Movie The Greatest Story Ever Told From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star...	Jesus	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1965	Movie 4 x 4 Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.	Kvist	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1965	Movie Interlude in the Marshland It's the mid-1930s, and brakeman Kvist has had enough of working on the train, jumped off, and started to walk...	Alex Kvist	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1964	Movie Dance Around the Guldbaggen Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the...	Self	Not rated
1964	TV Grimme Award Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.	Self	Not rated
1963	Movie Winter Light A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.	Jonas Persson	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1962	Movie Wonderful Adventures of Nils A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his...	The Father	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1962	Movie The Mistress A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man.	The Man	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1961	Movie Through a Glass Darkly Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage...	Martin	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1960	Movie The Wedding Day Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.	Anders Frost	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1960	Movie The Virgin Spring Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to...	Töre	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1958	Movie The Magician A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by...	Albert Emanuel Vogler	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1958	Movie Rabies Structured as six interconnected episodes, Rabies depicts cruelty as a contagious force: each character, wounded or humiliated, passes that violence...	Bo Stensson Svenningson	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1958	Movie Spion 503 The German agent, 503 June Harvey, has caused serious losses to the Danish resistance movement during the occupation, and it...	Horst, Gestapo-mand	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1958	Movie Brink of Life This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with...	Harry Andersson	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1957	Movie The Minister of Uddarbo A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some...	Gustaf Ömark	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1957	Movie Wild Strawberries Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order...	Åkerman	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1957	Movie Mr. Sleeman Is Coming A young woman faces an arranged marriage imposed by her aunts as the hour of her suitor’s arrival approaches. Adapted...	Hunter	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1957	Movie The Seventh Seal When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the...	Antonius Block	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1956	Movie The Right to Love A professor's convictions about modern sexual education and free love are challenged when his daughter decides she wants an abortion.	Bergman	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1953	Movie No Man's Woman Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to...	Olof	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1951	Movie Miss Julie Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues...	Groom	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1949	Movie Only a Mother A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion...	Nils	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self - Nominee / Presenter	TMDB 6.9 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
1988	Movie Katinka A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However,...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.7 / 10

The Resurrection of Christ

2026

Echoes of the Past

2021 / TMDB 6.6

Kursk

2018 / TMDB 6.6

Tuschinski's Dream

2017

2017 / TMDB 10.0

The First, the Last

2016 / TMDB 6.4

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Max von Sydow

Known for

Shutter Island (2010)

Minority Report (2002)

The Exorcist (1973)

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