FrameThrower · Actors · Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow
23 films · 1,541 frames · top-billed in 10 · 1957–2010
Born 10 April 1929 · Lund, Skåne län, Sweden · died 8 March 2020
Max von Sydow was a Swedish actor. He also held French citizenship since 2002. He starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He performed in films filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish.
Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic shot of his career in the scene where he plays chess with Death), Jesus in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkin's The Exorcist, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, and Ming the…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 23 films · 1,541 frames · top-billed in 10 · 1957–2010
- Knight of the Legion of Honour2012
- Sitges Grand Honorary Award2016
- Donostia Award2006
- Guldbagge Award for Best Director1988
- European Film Award for Best Actor1988
- Litteris et Artibus1978
- Swedish Academy's Theatre Award1968
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,541 frames from the 23 films we hold. This is the look of the work Max takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 23 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night — the look of the work Max takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Citizen X
1995 · Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Never Say Never Again
1983 · Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Conan The Barbarian
1982 · King Osric
Flash Gordon
1980 · The Emperor Ming
The Touch
1971 · Andreas Vergerus
The Passion of Anna
1969 · Andreas Winkelman
Hour of the Wolf
1968 · Johan Borg
Through A Glass Darkly
1961 · Martin
The Virgin Spring
1960 · Töre
The Magician
1958 · Albert Emanuel Vogler
Shutter Island
2010 · Dr. Naehring
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007 · Papinou
Rush Hour 3
2007 · Varden Reynard
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 · Nels Gudmundsson
What Dreams May Come
1998 · The Tracker
Until The End Of The World
1991 · Henry Farber
Europa
1991 · Narrator (voice)
Three Days of the Condor
1975 · G. Joubert
The Exorcist
1973 · Father Lankester Merrin
Winter Light
1963 · Jonas Persson
Brink of Life
1958 · Harry Andersson
The Seventh Seal
1957 · Antonius Block
Minority Report
· Director Lamar Burgess
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
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