Max von Sydow
Swedish-French actor (1929–2020)
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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.
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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 emper…
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- Sitges Grand Honorary Award
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Donostia Award
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