# Max von Sydow

> He played chess with Death in The Seventh Seal, then spent seven decades shifting effortlessly between Bergman's bleak northern parables and Hollywood's wildest swings — Jesus, a Jedi mentor, the devil himself. The range was unsettling: he could anchor existential silence or chew scenery as a Bond villain with equal conviction.

*Swedish-French actor (1929–2020)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** Sweden
- **Born:** 1929-04-10
- **Died:** 2020-03-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Carl Adolf von Sydow was born in Sweden on 10 April 1929 and built a 70-year career across more than 150 films in multiple languages. Ingmar Bergman cast him as the knight challenging Death in The Seventh Seal in 1957, a role that made him internationally visible and launched a collaboration spanning eleven films — Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Shame, The Touch. He made his American debut playing Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told in 1965, then carved out a second life in genre pictures and prestige dramas: the priest in The Exorcist, the emperor in Flash Gordon, the sorcerer in Conan the Barbarian, a Bond adversary in Never Say Never Again, supporting turns in Minority Report, Shutter Island, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the Three-Eyed Raven in Game of Thrones. He earned two Oscar nominations — Best Actor for Pelle the Conqueror in 1987, Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close in 2011 — and honors from Cannes, Venice, and the French government. He died 8 March 2020, having moved between art-house austerity and blockbuster mythology without ever breaking stride.

## Fame
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## Platforms
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## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Film Directing, #Theatre, #Movies, #Sweden, #Europe

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