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Max von Sydow

Highest Rated:: 100% Pelle Erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror) (1988)
Lowest Rated:: 11% The Ice Pirates (1984)

Birthday:: Apr 10, 1929
Birthplace:: Lund, Sk�ne l�n, Sweden
Bio:: Standing over six feet-four inches tall, the bony Swedish actor Max von Sydow spent much of his acting career portraying stern, oppressive characters. Born to a family of academics in Lund, Sweden, von Sydow studied at the Royal Dramatic School in Stockholm, where he made his screen debut in Only a…

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Highest Rated Movies

Pelle Erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror)
100%
The Magician (Ansiktet) (The Face)
100%
En Passion (A Passion) (The Passion of Anna)
100%
Hamsun
100%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 100%

Number of Movies: 107

Box Office Since 2001: $573.6M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2012	45%	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	The Renter	$26.7M
2011		The Exorcist: Director's Cut	Actor	--
2011		Nils Holgerssons underbara resa (Wonderful Adventures of Nils)	Actor	--
2010	43%	Robin Hood	Sir Walter Loxley	$105.2M
2010	69%	Shutter Island	Dr. Naehring	$125.0M
2010	83%	Solomon Kane	Josiah Kane	--
2010		Oscar and the Lady in Pink	Actor	--
2010		Muumi ja punainen pyrst�t�hti (Moomins and the Comet Chase)	Actor	--
2009		Man and His Dog (Un homme et son chien)	Le Commandant	--
2009		Oscar Et La Dame Rose	Actor	--
2007		Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning	Jakob Bronski	--
2007	19%	Rush Hour 3	Reynard	$140.1M
2007	93%	Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)	Young Papinou	$5.9M
2007		The Final Inquiry (L'Inchiesta)	Tiberius	--
2005		Heidi	Actor	--
2004		Ring of the Nibelungs (Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King)(Sword of Xanten)	Eyvind	--
2002	92%	Minority Report	Director Lamar Burgess	$131.9M
2002		Sleepless Nights	Actor	--
2001	72%	Intacto	Samuel	$0.1M
2001	50%	Non ho sonno (Sleepless)	Ulisse Moretti	--
2001		Druids (Vercing�torix)	Guttuart	--
2000	88%	Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen	Actor	$38.7M
2000		Nuremberg	Samuel Rosenman	--
1999	36%	Miss Julie	Hand	--
1999	40%	Snow Falling on Cedars	Nels Gudmundsson	--
1999		Short #2: Dreams	Actor	--
1998	55%	What Dreams May Come	The Tracker	--
1997		Hostile Waters	Actor	--
1997	82%	Enskilda samtal (Private Confessions) (Private Conversations)	Jacob	--
1997		Solomon: The Bible	Actor	--
1996	80%	Jerusalem	Priest	--
1996	100%	Hamsun	Knut Hamsun	--
1995	15%	Judge Dredd	Judge Fargo	--
1995	86%	Citizen X	Bukhanovsky	--
1993	27%	Needful Things	Leland Gaunt	--
1992	100%	Den Goda Viljan (The Best Intentions)	Johan Akerblom--Anna's Father	--
1992		Second Victory	Actor	--
1992		Silent Touch	Henry Keszdy	--
1992		Bachelor	Actor	--
1991	83%	Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt)	Henry Farber	--
1991		Oxen (The Ox)	The Vicar	--
1991	85%	Europa (Zentropa)	Narrator	--
1991	31%	A Kiss Before Dying	Thor Carlsson	--
1990	87%	Awakenings	Dr. Peter Ingham	--
1990		Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes	Father Siemes	--
1990		Father	Joseph Mueller	--
1989		Red King, White Knight	Szaz	--
1988	70%	Strange Brew	Brewmeister Smith	--
1988	100%	Pelle Erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror)	Pappa Lasse	--
1988	92%	Salaam Bombay!	Krishna/Chaipau	--
1986		Duet for One	Dr. Louis Feldman	--
1986	93%	Hannah and Her Sisters	Frederick	--
1986		Oviri (The Wolf at the Door)	August Strindberg	--
1985		Kojak: The Belarus File	Actor	--
1985		Code Name: Emerald (Deep Cover)	Jurgen Brausch	--
1985		Codename: Emerald	Actor	--
1985		Quo Vadis	Actor	--
1984		Target Eagle	Actor	--
1984	11%	The Ice Pirates	Actor	--
1984	61%	Dune	Dr. Kynes	--
1984	78%	Dreamscape	Dr. Paul Novotny	--
1984		The Soldier's Tale	Actor	--
1984		Samson and Delilah	Sidka	--
1984		George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey	Himself	--
1983	65%	Never Say Never Again	Blofeld	--
1982		Ingenj�r Andr�es Luftf�rd (The Flight of the Eagle)	S. A. Andree	--
1982	76%	Conan the Barbarian	King Osric	--
1982		Death Watch	Actor	--
1981		She Dances Alone	Nijinsky	--
1981	67%	Victory (Escape to Victory)	Maj. Karl Von Steiner	--
1980		La Mort en direct (Death Watch) (Death in Full View)	Gerald Mortenhoe	--
1980	82%	Flash Gordon	Emperor Ming	--
1979	50%	Hurricane	Dr. Bascomb	--
1978		Brass Target	Shelley/Webber	--
1977		Black Journal (Gran Bollito)	Actor	--
1977	24%	Exorcist II - The Heretic	Father Merrin	--
1977		March Or Die	Francois Marneau	--
1976		Cadaveri eccellenti (The Context) (Illustrious Corpses)	Supreme Court's president	--
1976		Il Deserto dei Tartari (The Desert of the Tartars)	Actor	--
1976	86%	Voyage of the Damned	Capt. Gustav Schroeder	--
1976		Foxtrot	Larsen	--
1975		The Ultimate Warrior (The Last Warrior) (The Barony)	The Baron	--
1975	86%	Three Days of the Condor	Joubert	--
1974		Steppenwolf	Harry	--
1973	85%	The Exorcist	Father Merrin	--
1972		Nybyggarna (The New Land)	Karl Oskar	--
1971	50%	Ber�ringen (The Touch)	Andreas Vergerus	--
1971	86%	Utvandrarna (The Emigrants)	Karl Oskar	--
1970		The Kremlin Letter	Kosnov	--
1970	20%	The Night Visitor	Salem	--
1969	100%	En Passion (A Passion) (The Passion of Anna)	Andreas	--
1968	71%	Skammen (Shame)	Jan	--
1968	88%	Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen)	Johan	--
1966		Hawaii	Abner Hale	--
1966	86%	The Quiller Memorandum	Oktober	--
1965	37%	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Jesus Christ	--
1962	80%	Nattvardsg�sterna (Winter Light)	Jonas Persson	--
1961	100%	S�som i en Spegel (Through A Glass Darkly)	Martin Karin's husband	--
1959	94%	Jungfruk�llan (The Virgin Spring)	Herr Tore	--
1958	100%	The Magician (Ansiktet) (The Face)	Albert Emanuel Vogler	--
1958		N�ra Livet (Brink of Life) (So Close to Life)	Harry Andersson	--
1957	94%	Smultronst�llet (Wild Strawberries)	Åkerman	--
1957	94%	The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet)	The Knight Antonius Block	--
1952		Fr�ken Julie (Miss Julie)	Actor	--
		Rabbit Ears - East of the Sun, West of the Moon	Actor	--
		Truth & Treason	Actor	--
		Hit Man	Actor	--

Max von Sydow Trivia

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Max Von Sydow plays Jesus Christ in 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (1965), and Satan in 'Needful Things' (1993). He is the only actor to play both these opposite parts.

- submitted by F0xy H (2 years ago)

Quotes from Max von Sydow's Characters

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1. The Knight Antonius Block: No man can live faced with death, knowing everything's nothingness.
From The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet). Submitted by Zbigniew Z (4 days ago)

1. King Osric: There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.
From Conan the Barbarian. Submitted by Anthony D (21 days ago)