Max von Sydow

1929–2020 · Swedish-French actor

Max von Sydow was a Swedish and 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. Capable in roles ranging from stolid, contemplative protagonists to sardonic artists and menacing, often gleeful villains, von Sydow received numerous accolades including honors from the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. He was nominated for two Academy Awards: for Best Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and for Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011).

Max von Sydow, in order

1949 Only a Mother: acted · directed by Alf Sjöberg
1951 Miss Julie: acted · directed by Alf Sjöberg
1957 Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (TV movie): acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1957 The Minister of Uddarbo: acted · directed by Kenne Fant
1957 The Seventh Seal: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman · critics 93%, audiences 93% · streaming on HBO Max, Kanopy, Plex
1957 Wild Strawberries: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1958 Brink of Life: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1958 Rabies (TV movie): acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1958 The Magician: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1960 The Virgin Spring: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1960 The Wedding Day: acted · directed by Kenne Fant
1961 Through a Glass Darkly: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1962 Adventures of Nils Holgersson: acted · directed by Kenne Fant
1962 The Mistress: acted · directed by Vilgot Sjöman
1963 Winter Light: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1965 4 x 4: acted · directed by Jan Troell and Klaus Rifbjerg
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told: acted · directed by David Lean and George Stevens · critics 48%, audiences 64% · streaming on Philo, Roku Channel, Hoopla
1965 The Reward: acted · directed by Serge Bourguignon
1966 Hawaii: acted · directed by George Roy Hill
1966 Here's Your Life: acted · directed by Jan Troell
1966 The Quiller Memorandum: acted · directed by Michael Anderson · critics 67%, audiences 60% · streaming on fuboTV
1968 Black Palm Trees: acted · directed by Lars-Magnus Lindgren
1968 Hour of the Wolf: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1968 Shame: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1969 Made in Sweden: acted · directed by Johan Bergenstråhle
1969 The Passion of Anna: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1970 Man's Fate: acted · directed by Fred Zinnemann
1970 The Kremlin Letter: acted · directed by John Huston · audiences 61%
1971 The Apple War: acted · directed by Tage Danielsson
1971 The Emigrants: acted · directed by Jan Troell
1971 The Night Visitor: acted · directed by László Benedek
1971 The Touch: acted · directed by Ingmar Bergman
1972 The New Land: acted · directed by Jan Troell
1973 The Exorcist: acted · directed by William Friedkin
1974 Steppenwolf: acted · directed by Fred Haines
1975 Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story: acted · directed by Hans Alfredson
1975 The Ultimate Warrior: acted · directed by Robert Clouse
1975 Three Days of the Condor: acted · directed by Sydney Pollack
1975 Trompe l'oeil: acted · directed by Claude d'Anna
1976 Cuore di cane: acted · directed by Alberto Lattuada
1976 Foxtrot: acted · directed by Arturo Ripstein · streaming on fuboTV, Roku Channel, Kanopy
1976 Illustrious Corpses: acted · directed by Francesco Rosi
1976 The Desert of the Tartars: acted · directed by Valerio Zurlini
1976 Voyage of the Damned: acted · directed by Stuart Rosenberg · critics 82%, audiences 50% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Pluto TV
1977 Black Journal: acted · directed by Mauro Bolognini
1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic: acted · directed by John Boorman and Rospo Pallenberg · critics 10%, audiences 13% · streaming on TCM
1977 March or Die: acted · directed by Dick Richards
1978 Brass Target: acted · directed by John Hough
1979 Hurricane: acted · directed by Jan Troell
1980 Death Watch: acted · directed by Bertrand Tavernier
1980 Flash Gordon: acted · directed by Mike Hodges
1981 Escape to Victory: acted · directed by John Huston
1982 Conan the Barbarian: acted · directed by John Milius · critics 68%, audiences 74% · streaming on Netflix, Philo, AMC+
1982 Flight of the Eagle: acted · directed by Jan Troell
1982 Hit Man: acted · directed by José Antonio de la Loma
1982 The cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer: acted · directed by Erik Frohn Nielsen
1983 Circle of Passions: acted · directed by Claude d'Anna
1983 Never Say Never Again: acted · directed by Irvin Kershner
1983 Strange Brew: acted · directed by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis
1984 Dreamscape: acted · directed by Joseph Ruben
1984 Dune: acted · directed by David Lynch
1984 Samson and Delilah (TV movie): acted · directed by Lee Philips
1984 Terror in the Aisles: acted · directed by Andrew J. Kuehn · critics 63%, audiences 51%
1984 The Ice Pirates: acted · directed by Stewart Raffill
1985 Christopher Columbus (TV movie): acted · directed by Alberto Lattuada
1985 Code Name: Emerald: acted · directed by Jonathan Sanger
1985 Quo Vadis? (TV series): acted · directed by Franco Rossi
1985 The Repenter: acted · directed by Pasquale Squitieri
1986 Duet for One: acted · directed by Andrei Konchalovsky · critics 80%, audiences 88%
1986 Gösta Berlings saga (TV series): acted · directed by Bengt Lagerkvist
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters: acted · directed by Woody Allen · critics 91%, audiences 90% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
1986 The Wolf at the Door: acted · directed by Henning Carlsen
1987 Pelle the Conqueror: acted · directed by Bille August
1988 Katinka: directed
1990 A Violent Life (TV series): acted · directed by Giacomo Battiato
1990 Awakenings: acted · directed by Alain Cuniot and Penny Marshall · critics 81%, audiences 89% · streaming on Tubi
1990 Father: acted · directed by John Power
1990 Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (TV movie): acted · directed by Peter Werner
1990 The Bachelor: acted · directed by Roberto Faenza
1991 A Kiss Before Dying: acted · directed by James Dearden
1991 Europa: acted · directed by Lars von Trier
1991 The Ox: acted · directed by Sven Nykvist
1991 Until the End of the World: acted · directed by Wim Wenders · critics 89%, audiences 89% · streaming on Criterion Channel
1992 The Best Intentions (TV movie): acted · directed by Bille August
1992 The silent touch: acted · directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
1993 Grandpa's Journey: acted · directed by Staffan Lamm
1993 Needful Things: acted · directed by Fraser Clarke Heston · critics 35%, audiences 44%
1995 Citizen X (TV movie): acted · directed by Chris Gerolmo
1995 Judge Dredd: acted · directed by Danny Cannon
1995 Lumière and Company: acted · directed by Abbas Kiarostami and Alain Corneau · critics 100%, audiences 77%
1995 Radetzkymarsch (TV movie): acted · directed by Axel Corti and Gernot Roll
1996 Hamsun: acted · directed by Jan Troell
1996 Hamsun - hero and traitor: acted
1996 Jerusalem: acted · directed by Bille August
1996 Private Confessions (TV movie): acted · directed by Liv Ullmann
1996 Samson and Delilah (TV movie): acted · directed by Nicolas Roeg
1997 A Frozen Dream: acted · directed by Jan Troell
1997 Hostile Waters (TV movie): acted · directed by David Drury
1997 Solomon (TV movie): acted · directed by Roger Young · audiences 57%
1997 The Princess and the Pauper: acted · directed by Lamberto Bava
1998 What Dreams May Come: acted · directed by Vincent Ward · critics 54%, audiences 84%
1999 Snow Falling on Cedars: acted · directed by Scott Hicks
2000 Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan': acted · directed by Laurent Bouzereau
2000 Nuremberg (TV movie): acted · directed by Yves Simoneau
2001 Druids: acted · directed by Jacques Dorfmann
2001 Intacto: acted · directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
2001 Sleepless: acted · directed by Dario Argento
2002 Minority Report: acted · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 89%, audiences 80% · streaming on Prime Video, Apple TV, Paramount+
2004 Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (TV movie): acted · directed by Uli Edel
2004 Hidden Children - Escape of the Innocents: acted · directed by Leone Pompucci
2005 Heidi: acted · directed by Paul Marcus
2006 The Inquiry: acted · directed by Giulio Base · audiences 35% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
2007 Emotional Arithmetic: acted · directed by Paolo Barzman
2007 Rush Hour 3: acted · directed by Brett Ratner · critics 18%, audiences 63% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: acted · directed by Julian Schnabel
2007 The Tudors (TV series): acted
2008 A Man and His Dog: acted · directed by Francis Huster
2008 Religulous: acted · directed by Larry Charles
2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink: acted · directed by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
2009 Solomon Kane: acted · directed by M. J. Bassett
2010 Robin Hood: acted · directed by Ridley Scott · critics 43%, audiences 58% · streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max
2010 Shutter Island: acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 69%, audiences 77% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
2010 The Wolfman: acted · directed by Joe Johnston · critics 32%, audiences 33% · streaming on HBO Max, Shudder
2011 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: acted · directed by Stephen Daldry
2012 Branded: acted · directed by Aleksandr Dulerayn
2012 Liv & Ingmar: acted · directed by Dheeraj Akolkar
2012 Palme: acted · directed by Kristina Lindström and Maud Nycander
2015 Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens: acted · directed by J. J. Abrams · critics 93%, audiences 84% · streaming on Disney+, Philo, Starz
2016 Game of Thrones (TV series): acted · critics 89%, audiences 85% · streaming on HBO Max
2016 The First, the Last: acted · directed by Bouli Lanners
2018 Kursk: acted · directed by Thomas Vinterberg
2021 Echoes of the Past: acted · directed by Nicholas Dimitropoulos