Max von Sydow

Movie Actor

Max von Sydow was born in Lund, Skåne County, Sweden on April 10th, 1929 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 90, Max von Sydow biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Carl Adolf von Sydow
Date of Birth
April 10, 1929
Nationality
Sweden, France
Place of Birth
Lund, Skåne County, Sweden
Death Date
Mar 8, 2020 (age 90)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Networth
$16 Million
Profession
Director, Film Actor, Film Director, Stage Actor, Television Actor
Max von Sydow Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 90 years old, Max von Sydow has this physical status:

Height
193cm
Weight
85kg
Hair Color
Sandy Blonde
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Max von Sydow Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Lund Cathedral School, Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten)
Max von Sydow Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Catherine Brelet
Children
4
Dating / Affair
Christina Inga Britta Olin (1951-1979), Catherine Brelet
Parents
Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, Maria Margareta “Greta”, Baroness Rappe
Siblings
Axel Ulrik Bertil von Sydow (Brother)
Other Family
Cedric Brelet Van Sydow (Nephew)
Max von Sydow Career

Career

Von Sydow made his screen debut in Alf Sjöberg's films Only a Mother (Bara en mor, 1949) and Miss Julie (Fröken Julie, 1951), while at the Dramaten. Von Sydow appeared in nine plays, including Peer Gynt, in 1951. He moved to Hälsingborg in 1953 and appeared in eleven parts, including Prost and the titular role in Henry IV. Von Sydow's stage work earned him critical esteem, and in 1954 he was granted the Royal Foundation of Sweden's Cultural Award, a grant to young, promising actors.

Von Sydow, a 5-year-old boy from Malmö, came to Malmö and joined the Malmö City Theatre, the Malmö City Theatre's chief director at the time, Ingmar Bergman. Von Sydow had attempted to appear in Bergman's Prison (1949), but the artist turned down the bid. The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet, 1957), Bergman and von Sydow's first film was The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet, 1957), in which von Sydow portrayed Antonius Block, a disillusioned 14th-century knight returning from the Crusades to a plague-stricken Sweden. The scene of his character playing a game of chess with Death has long been recognized as a pivotal moment in cinema. Von Sydow went on to appear in a total of 11 Bergman films. Von Sydow appeared in The Magician (Ansiktet, 1958), a 19th-century travelling illusionist who remains silent for the majority of the film. He portrayed a medieval landowner vengeance on the man who assaulted and murdered his daughter in The Virgin Spring (Jungfruküllan, 1960). He portrayed the husband of a schizophrenic woman in "Thought a Glass Darkly (Somme i en spegel, 1961), playing Harriet Andersson. He appeared in films including Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället, 1957), Brink of Life (Nära livet, 1958) and Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna, 1963). In five out of six years between 1957 and 1962, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in five out of six years was voted by Sweden. Von Sydow, a director of Brick in Cat, performed on a Hot Tin Roof in Peer Gynt, Alceste, under Bergman, is still performing on stage. Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom were among Bergman's most common collaborators on film.

Despite his rising fame, von Sydow limited his career to Sweden early in his career, and he denied offers to work outside of the region. He was first approached at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 to appear in American films, but declined, citing his "content in Sweden" and "no intention of starting a foreign career." He also declined to appear in Dr. No (1962) and Capt. von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965). Von Sydow made his international debut in 1965, playing Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told. He accepted the role against Bergman's advice, spent six months at the University of California, Los Angeles, preparing for the role, and adopted a Mid-Atlantic accent. The film introduced von Sydow to a wider audience, but it fell short of expectations at the box office. He went on to play a crop-dusting pilot in The Reward (1965) and a Hawaii missionary (1966). Von Sydow received his first Golden Globe nomination for his work in Hawaii. However, von Sydow's passion, as well as an elderly Russian colonel in The Quiller Memorandum (1976), a meticulous and sophisticated international assassin in Three Days of the Condor (1980), and James Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Never Say Never Again (1983), to his own surprise.

Von Sydow was often paired with Liv Ullmann in Bergman films in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Von Sydow and his pregnant wife appeared on an isolated island in 1968's Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen), a Ullmann performance. The two appeared in Shame (Skammen) this year, about a couple (both former musicians) who were living on a farm on an island during a war. The Passion of Anna, a 1969 Bergman film, is revisited by Von Sydow and Ullmann (En passion). Von Sydow appeared in The Emigrants, a Jan Troell epic duology set in 1971 and 1972 (Utvandrarna), the story of a Swedish peasant family who immigrated to America in the mid-19th century. (Utvandrarna)

Von Sydow appeared in The Touch, Bergman's first English-language film, in 1971. He played a doctor whose wife is having an affair. Von Sydow appeared in William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), one of his most commercially successful films. He played Father Lankester Merrin, the film's ostensible Jesuit priest, gaining him his second Golden Globe nomination. Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), he reprised his role in the film's sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977). Von Sydow made his Broadway debut in 1977 with Eileen Atkins and Bibi Andersson in Per Olov Enquist's The Night of the Tribades, a play about writer August Strindberg. He appeared with Anne Bancroft in the Tom Kempinski film Duet for One about the cellist Jacqueline du Pré in 1981. Von Sydow appeared in The Tempest for the first time three decades ago, the actor made his British debut in 1988 as Pro Prost, a role he first appeared in Sweden three decades ago.

Von Sydow appeared in John Milius' "Conan the Barbarian (1982), Rick Moranis' Strange Brew (1985), and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Von Sydow, a 1985 Berliner International Film Festival jury member, was a member of the jury. Von Sydow portrayed an impoverished Swedish labourer who brought his son to Denmark in 1987 to try to ensure a better life for themselves. He received international recognition for his work as well as being regarded as one of his career's finest roles. Von Sydow received a Best Actor nomination at the 61st Academy Awards for his role in the film's best Foreign Language Film as Denmark's official Oscar nominee. von Sydow's only directorial foray with Katinka, a film based on the Herman Bang novel Ved Vejen, appeared in 1988. The film received the Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Director, but it was not widely distributed outside of Sweden. von Sydow appeared in the television film Red King, White Knight, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1989. In the 1989 film Ghostbusters II, Vigo the Carpathian was also on screen.

Von Sydow and Bergman did not work together for a long time. A portion of Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (1982) was specifically written for von Sydow, but his agent refused a large salary. Von Sydow expressed regret for not being able to answer questions about his role. The two characters would reunite in 1991 with The Best Intentions, directed by Bille August with a Bergman script. Von Sydow appeared in Private Confessions, directed by Liv Ullmann and written by Bergman in 1996. In 1997, von Sydow played Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist and Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun in the biographical Hamsun. Von Sydow appeared in films including Father (1990), Awakenings (1990), The Rest of the World (1991), Needful Things (1993), and Snow Falls on Cedars (1999). Von Sydow received the Australian Film Institute Best Actor Award for his role in Father.

Von Sydow appeared in one of his greatest commercial successes in 2002, playing PreCrime director opposite Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's science fiction thriller Minority Report. Von Sydow appeared in a television adaptation of the Ring of the Nibelung saga in 2004. The show set ratings records and was later announced in the United States as Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. He appeared in Rush Hour 3 as one of the villains opposite Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in 2007, and he played the father of the protagonist in Julian Schnabel's version of Jean-Dominique Bauby's biography. von Sydow appeared on the drama series The Tudors in 2009.

Von Sydow's autobiography, as well as Robin Hood's blind stepfather Sir Walter Loxley in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, played a sinister German doctor in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island in 2010 and Robin Hood's blind stepfather Sir Walter Loxley. In Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), based on Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, he received his second Academy Award nomination for his role as a mute elderly renter.

Von Sydow was honoured at the Turner Classic Movie (TCM) Festival in Hollywood in April 2013, screenings of two of his classic films, Three Days of the Condor and The Seventh Seal.

Von Sydow performed in The War of Art episode of The Simpsons in March 2014.

In 2015, he appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As the Three-eyed Raven in 2016, he appeared on HBO's Game of Thrones as the Three-eyed Raven. Von Sydow's second Primetime Emmy Award nomination was given for his work.

Von Sydow developed forays into video games in addition to his film and television careers. Esbern, a mentor of the protagonist in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011), narrated the game's debut trailer, and portrayed Esbern, the protagonist. He also contributed to the 2009 game Ghostbusters: The Video Game, as Lor San Tekka in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2016).

Von Sydow appeared in Thomas Vinterberg's film Kursk, also known as The Command, based on the true story of the Kursk submarine disaster in 2018.

He appeared in Nicholas Dimitropoulos' war drama Echoes of the Past (2021). Nicolas Andreou, one of the few living survivors of the 1943 massacre in Kalavryta committed by Nazi troops during Greece's Axis occupation.

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Does the 'curse' of The Exorcist live on? As it hits theaters, critics pan the new iteration of the horror franchise as 'cheesy,' since the legendary original film was befuddled with disaster

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 6, 2023
Those horror enthusiasts can now enjoy Exorcist: Believer (left) in UK cinemas, but the film is not exempt from back luck, as shown by a slew of chilling stories. FEMAIL explains how puking viewers (right inset), family death (centre), spinal injury (ight), and a motorcycle accident (right inset) plagued the original film.

A look at William Friedkin's 'cursed' film: how the producer of The Exorcist, who died at the age of 87, saw his film beset by tragedies during shooting

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 8, 2023
The Exorcist is one of the most feared films of all time, from fires on location, deaths during filming, and vomiting viewers. Audiences in the United Kingdom have been scathing by the film, which has been widely regarded as one of the worst of all time since its debut in 1974. And horror reports of the on-set shootings are definitely more frightening than fiction. Ellen Burstyn's character in the film hired two priests - played by Max Von Sydow and Jason Miller - to exorcise a demon from her daughter, Pazuzu.