While at the Dramaten, Sydow made his screen debuts in Alf Sjöberg's films Only a Mother ( Bara en mor, 1949) and Miss Julie ( Fröken Julie, 1951).
He made his stage debut in a small part in the Goethe play Egmont, which he considered "almost a disaster," but received good reviews for his performance. During his time at the Dramaten, he helped start a theatre group, of which actress Ingrid Thulin was a member. After completing his service, Sydow studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) in Stockholm where he trained between 19. Sydow served for two years in the Swedish Army with the Army Quartermaster Corps, where he adopted the name "Max" from the star performer of a flea circus he saw. Originally expected to pursue a career in law, he became interested in acting after seeing a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream during a class trip to Malmö, which prompted him to establish an amateur theatrical group along with his friends back at school. Sydow attended Lund Cathedral School, where he learned English at an early age. Sydow was raised as a Lutheran, but became an agnostic in the 1970s. His mother was also of part- Pomeranian descent. A paternal ancestor, David Sydow ( "von" or "Von" was added later to the family name), emigrated from Pomerania to the Kalmar region in 1724. His mother, Baroness Maria Margareta Rappe, was a schoolteacher. His father, Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, was an ethnologist and professor of folkloristics at Lund University. He became a French citizen in 2002 and lived in France for the last two decades of his life.Ĭarl Adolf von Sydow was born on 10 April 1929 in Lund, Sweden. He received the Royal Foundation of Sweden's Cultural Award in 1954, was made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, and was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur on 17 October 2012.
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He also portrayed the Three-eyed Raven in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones in 2016 for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He also appeared in supporting roles in Dune (1984), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Awakenings (1990), Minority Report (2002), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Shutter Island (2010), Robin Hood (2010), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Sydow made his American film debut as Jesus Christ in the Biblical epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and went on to star in films such as Hawaii (1966), The Exorcist (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Flash Gordon (1980) and the James Bond adaptation Never Say Never Again (1983). He appeared in eleven films directed by Bergman, including Wild Strawberries (1957), The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963), Shame (1968), and The Touch (1971). He was first noticed internationally for playing the 14th-century knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957), which features iconic scenes of his character challenging Death to a game of chess. He received two Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).
Capable in roles ranging from stolid, contemplative protagonists to sardonic artists and menacing, often gleeful villains, he received numerous accolades including honors from the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. Max von Sydow ( / f ɒ n ˈ s iː d oʊ/, Swedish: ( listen) born Carl Adolf von Sydow 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor.
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