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Max von Sydow
☼ Born on10 enero 1929, in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
† Died on8 enero 2020, in Seillans, Var, France, cause undisclosed causes
Biography:
Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.When he was in high school, he and a few fellow students, including Yvonne Lombard, started a theatre club which encouraged his interest in acting. After conscription, he began to study at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school (1948-1951), together with Lars Ekborg, Margaretha Krook and Ingrid Thulin. His first role was as Nils the crofter in Alf Sjöberg's Solo una madre (1949). After graduation, he worked at the city theatres in Norrköping and Malmö.His work in the movies by Ingmar Be
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rgman (especially El séptimo sello (1957), including the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death) made him well-known internationally, and he started to get offers from abroad. His career abroad began with him playing Jesus in La historia más grande jamás contada (1965); Hawai (1966) and Conspiración en Berlín (1966). Since then, his career includes very different kind of characters, like Karl Oskar Nilsson in Los emigrantes (1971); Father Lankester Merrin in El exorcista (1973); Joubert the assassin in Los tres días del cóndor (1975), Emperor Ming in Flash Gordon (1980); the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the Nunca digas nunca jamás (1983); Liet-Kynes in Dune (1984) the artist Frederick in Hannah y sus hermanas (1986); Lassefar in Pelle el Conquistador (1987), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination; Dr. Peter Ingham in Despertares (1990); Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002) and The Renter in Tan fuerte, tan cerca (2011), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination.He became one of Sweden's most admired and professional actors, and is the only male Swedish actor to receive an Oscar nomination. He was nominated twice: for Pelle el Conquistador (1987) in 1988 and for Tan fuerte, tan cerca (2011) in 2012. He received the Guldbagge Award for Best Director in his directing debut, the drama film Ved vejen (1988). In 2016, he joined the sixth season of the HBO series Juego de tronos (2011) as the Three-eyed Raven, which earned him his Primetime Emmy Award nomination.Max von Sydow died on March 8, 2020, in Provence, France, and was survived by his wife Catherine Brelet and four children. He was 90.
In the role of actor
El exorcista (1973) (20/05/2025)
El Pavor Absoluto que Redefinió el Género y Sigue Poseyendo el Alma En la historia del cine de terror , hay pocas películas que hayan alcanzado el estatus icónico y el impacto cultural de “El Exorcista” (1973). Dirigida con una maestría implacable por William Friedkin y basada en la novela de William Peter Blatty, esta […]