Max Von Sydow

MAX VON SYDOW d2020. Swedish and French actor. 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. He was nominated for two Academy Awards ; for Best Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and for Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011). 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 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 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 ; Hawaii (1966) / The Exorcist (1973) / Three Days of the Condor (1975) / Flash Gordon (1980) / Conan the Barbarian (1982) and the James Bond adaptation Never Say Never Again (1983). 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)