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Max von Sydow was a 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. Capable in roles ranging from stolid, contemplative protagonists to sardonic artists and menacing, often gleeful villains, von Sydow received numerous accolades including honors from the…
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Born 10 April 1929 · Died 8 March 2020 · Q203215
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Died 2020-03-08.
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Sydow appeared in Thomas Vinterberg's film Kursk, also known as The Command, based on the true story of the Kursk submarine disaster
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Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2016).
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Portrayed Bloodraven in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
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Joined the HBO series Game of Thrones as the Three-eyed Raven
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The Guardian: Max Von Sydow 'playing Lor San Tekka' in The Force Awakens
Played the explorer Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour presented by Thierry Frémaux (2012).
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Told Charlie Rose in an interview that Ingmar Bergman had told him he would contact him after death to show him that there was a life after death
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Sydow played a sinister German doctor in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, and Robin Hood's blind stepfather Sir Walter Loxley in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood
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Sydow appeared in the drama series The Tudors
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Starred in the box-office hit Rush Hour 3 as one of the antagonists opposite Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, and played the father of the protagonist in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel's adaptation of
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Awarded Donostia Award (2006).
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Sydow appeared in a television adaptation of the Ring of the Nibelung saga
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Sydow acted in one of his biggest commercial successes, playing the PreCrime director opposite Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's science fiction thriller Minority Report
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Became a citizen of France, at which time he had to relinquish his Swedish citizenship
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And adopted Brelet's two adult sons from her previous marriage
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Sydow played Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist and Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun in the biopic Hamsun
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Sydow made his final appearance in a Bergman film, Private Confessions, directed by Liv Ullmann and written by Bergman
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With The Best Intentions, directed by Bille August with a script from Bergman
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Sydow appeared in the television film Red King, White Knight, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988).
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Awarded Guldbagge Award for Best Director for Katinka (1988).
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Sydow made his only directorial foray with Katinka, a film based on the Herman Bang novel, Ved Vejen
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As Prospero in The Tempest, a role he had first played in Sweden three decades before
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Sydow was a member of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
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Received the Best Actor prize at the Venice International Film Festival for his performance in Flight of the Eagle
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Starred with Anne Bancroft in the Tom Kempinski play Duet for One about a famous violinist with multiple sclerosis
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Awarded Litteris et Artibus (1978).
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Sydow made his Broadway debut alongside Eileen Atkins and Bibi Andersson in Per Olov Enquist's The Night of the Tribades, a play about the writer August Strindberg
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Sydow appeared in one of his most commercially successful films, William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973)
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Sydow starred in The Touch, Bergman's first English-language film, playing a doctor whose wife is having an affair
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And 1972, Sydow again starred alongside Ullmann in the Jan Troell epic duology, The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) The New Land (Nybyggarna), the story of a Swedish peasant family that emigrates to America in the mid-19th centu
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Awarded Swedish Academy's Theatre Award (1968).
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Sydow accepted George Stevens's offer and made his international debut, playing Christ in the epic The Greatest Story Ever Told
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Sydow moved to Malmö and joined the Malmö City Theatre, whose chief director at the time was Ingmar Bergman
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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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Received the Royal Foundation of Sweden's Cultural Award, a grant to young, promising actors
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Moved on to the City Theatre in Hälsingborg (Helsingborg), playing eleven parts in a two-year stint, including Prospero in The Tempest and the title role of the Pirandello play Henry IV
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Sydow joined the Norrköping-Linköping Municipal Theatre, appearing in nine plays including Peer Gynt
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Studied at Dramatens elevskola (1951).
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Studied at Katedralskolan (1947).
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Born 1929-04-10.
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