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Max von Sydow (1929–2020) was a Swedish-French actor, active in both European and American cinema.

Von Sydow started his cinematic career in his native country in 1949 and two of his most memorable roles include Knight Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal (1957), the first of his eleven films with director Ingmar Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death; and as Martin in Through a Glass Darkly (1961).

Beginning in 1965, von Sydow starred in Hollywood films; his debut was as Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). Other roles include as Father Merrin in The Exorcist (1973); Joubert in Three Days of the Condor (1975); Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980); the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983); Liet-Kynes in Dune (1984); Dr. Peter Ingham in Awakenings (1990); Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002) and Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).

Von Sydow was nominated for two Academy Awards, for his roles as Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and The Renter in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012). On television, von Sydow played the Three-eyed Raven in Game of Thrones. In 2011, he voiced Esbern in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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References

1. Philip French, Screen Legends, The Observer, 10 February 2008
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3. ^ "Max von Sydow". BFI. Archived from the original on May 31, 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
4. Miller, Cynthia J.; Riper, A. Bowdoin Van (2016-05-20). The Laughing Dead: The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4422-6833-3. the ghost of Vigo, voiced by Max von Sydow
5. Dixon, Wheeler Winston; Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (2018-03-30). A Short History of Film, Third Edition. Rutgers University Press. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-8135-9516-0. In 2002, Ben-Barka wrote and directed Les amants de Mogador (The Lovers of Mogador), starring Max von Sydow.
6. "Max von Sydow bortklippt: "Sorgligt"". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2020-03-10. Max von Sydow hade en mindre roll i skräckfilmen The Wolfman - men klipptes bort
7. ""Franske" von Sydow gör succé". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 2012-02-13. ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
8. Webster, Andy (2012-09-07). "A Marketing Man Fights the Madness". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
9. Yamato, Jen (2014-07-02). "Max Von Sydow Heads To Imax Screens In 'Dragons 3D': Video". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
10. Jaworowski, Ken (2015-12-03). "Review: 'The Letters,' a Biopic of Mother Teresa". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
11. "'The First, The Last' ('Les premiers, les derniers'): Berlin Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
12. ^ "Max von Sydow, actor who played chess with Death in 'The Seventh Seal' – obituary". The Telegraph. 2020-03-09. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
13. "Kvartetten som sprängdes (1936) - SFdb" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-03-10. TV har framfört den två gånger, dels 1962 som TV-teater, dels som filmad serie 1972, den gången i regi av Hans Alfredson som även spelade Karl Ludvigs roll. Max von Sydow spelade den gången Planertz.
14. Krafft, Rebecca; O'Doherty, Brian (1991). The Arts on Television, 1976-1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming. Media Arts: Film/Radio/Television Program, National Endowment for the Arts. p. 47. ISBN 9780160359262. The Soldier's Tale features the voices of Andre Gregory, Max Von Sydow and Galina Panova.
15. "Max von Sydow - SFdb" (in Swedish). 10 April 1929. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
16. Blyth, Caroline (2017-10-05). Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives as Femme Fatale: The Lost Seduction. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 138–139. ISBN 978-0-567-67313-8.
17. Marcus, Millicent Joy (2007-01-01). Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-9189-5.
18. "'The Simpsons': A lesson in art forgery, with Max von Sydow". Los Angeles Times. 2014-03-24. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
19. Yin-Poole, Wesley (2020-03-09). "Actor Max von Sydow dies aged 90". Eurogamer. Retrieved 2020-03-10.

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