# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-von-sydow
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:58:21.167Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.