![]() Speaking to the Guardian, Martin Scorsese – who directed him in 2011’s Shutter Island – called Von Sydow “something like a consummate actor, with a pride in his art and a dedication to his craft that I’ve encountered in very few people in my life.” The news was broken on Monday by his wife, the producer Catherine Brelet, who told Paris Match: “It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow on 8 March 2020.” More recently, he appeared in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and on Game of Thrones as the mystical Three-Eyed Raven. He also brought immense presence and gravity to roles such as Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), a doomed priest in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, and an intellectually snobbish artist in Woody Allen‘s Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Von Sydow also starred in multiple episodes of the Showtime series The Tudors and voiced a character in a 2014 episode of The Simpsons.Sydow’s most iconic role was in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), in which he plays chess with Death. In 2002, von Sydow would also work with Steven Spielberg when he starred in the Tom Cruise thriller Minority Report. Some of his most well-known movie roles include Flash Gordon, Conan the Barbarian, Dune, and the Robin Williams afterlife movie What Dreams May Come. Von Sydow would also win the KCFCC Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Three Days of the Condor.Īt this point, roles were coming in by the dozens for von Sydow, and the talented actor would give life to a wide variety of characters in movies and television in subsequent years. He'd later appear in the 1966 drama Hawaii as a newly-ordained minister and in the 1973 horror flick The Exorcist, earning Golden Globe Award nominations for both of these memorable roles. ![]() He'd finally make his way across the pond in 1965 to star as Jesus Christ in the well-known Biblical movie The Greatest Story Ever Told. Making waves in Swedish film eventually got von Sydow noticed by Hollywood producers who began sending him offers to come work in the United States. Clearly finding his calling, von Sydow was working regularly with Swedish film and theatrical work by the mid '50s, which includes a highly-regarded role as a knight who plays a chess game with Death in 1957's The Seventh Seal. He'd later begin studying the craft at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre as a young man and began appearing in Swedish movies during this time. Taking an early interest in theatre and acting, von Sydow founded an amateur theatrical company with some friends as a teenager. The veteran performer was 90 years old.Ī Swedish native, von Sydow was born in Lund in 1929. "It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow," says Von Sydow's wife, Catherine. Though an exact cause of death wasn't provided, the news was confirmed by the actor's family that von Sydow died on Sunday. Iconic actor Max von Sydow who appeared in numerous movie and television shows for decades including The Exorcist and Game of Thrones, has sadly passed away.
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