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Acting

Max von Sydow

Career: Active from 1949 to 2021, busiest in 1995 with 8 main titles.

Leading roles: 91
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: The New Land
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 108 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Max von Sydow Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.7, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.3, average 2.7
Pop Culture
1.1, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.4, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 18
Political Intrigue 13
Character-Driven 11
Psychological Drama 11
Psychological Thriller 8
Social Commentary 8
Melancholy 7
Swedish Cinema 6
Melancholic Tone 6
Biographical Drama 5
Moral Ambiguity 5
Psychological Depth 5

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

162

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title · average score 73

Echoes of the Past

73

as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)

2010s

12 titles · average score 59

Kursk

61

as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko

The First, the Last

63

as Le croque-mort

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

74

as Lor San Tekka

The Letters

42

as Celeste van Exem

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures

as Dr. Alistair Conis

Branded

27

as Marketing Guru

Game of Thrones

86

TV show · as Three-Eyed Raven

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

54

as The Renter

Robin Hood

54

as Sir Walter Loxley

Shutter Island

72

as Dr. Naehring

The Last Norwegian Troll

as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)

Behind the Moomins

as Narrator (voice)

2000s

19 titles · average score 59

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

50

as Le docteur Dusseldorf

Solomon Kane

54

as Josiah Kane

Rush Hour 3

46

as Varden Reynard

The Tudors

73

TV show · as Cardinal Von Waldburg

Heidi

69

as Uncle Alp

Ring of the Nibelungs

67

TV show · as Eyvind

Ring of the Nibelungs

63

as Eyvind

Hidden Children

as Valobra

Minority Report

80

as Director Lamar Burgess

Sleepless

57

as Moretti

Druids

25

as Guttuart

Intacto

61

as Samuel

1990s

42 titles · average score 65

What Dreams May Come

60

as The Tracker

Hostile Waters

54

as Admiral Chernavin

Citizen X

80

as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky

Judge Dredd

35

as Chief Justice Fargo

Depth Solitude

64

as Narrator (voice)

The Atlantic

as Narrator (voice)

Radetzky March

68

TV show · as Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje

Needful Things

48

as Leland Gaunt

The Best Intentions

77

as Johan Åkerblom

A Kiss Before Dying

38

as Thor Carlsson

Awakenings

79

as Peter Ingham

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

66

as Father Siemes

1980s

33 titles · average score 66

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Klaus Ziegler (voice)

Pelle the Conqueror

81

as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand

Gösta Berlings saga

TV show · as Melchior Sinclaire

The Wolf at the Door

58

as August Strindberg

The Last Place on Earth

77

TV show · as Fridtjof Nansen

Code Name: Emerald

55

as Jürgen Brausch

Dreamscape

65

as Paul Novotny

Never Say Never Again

61

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Strange Brew

64

as Brewmeister Smith

The Flight of the Eagle

72

as Salomon August Andrée

Escape to Victory

66

as Major Karl von Steiner

Flash Gordon

68

as The Emperor Ming

1970s

24 titles · average score 60

Brass Target

50

as Shelley Martin Webber

Black Journal

54

as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal

Exorcist II: The Heretic

30

as Father Lankester Merrin

The Ultimate Warrior

42

as Baron

Three Days of the Condor

75

as G. Joubert

Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story

59

as The Father

The Broken Mirror

66

as Matthew Lawrence

The Exorcist

80

as Father Lankester Merrin

The New Land

90

as Karl Oskar

The Night Visitor

37

as Salem

The Emigrants

87

as Karl Oskar

The Touch

58

as Andreas Vergerus

1960s

19 titles · average score 71

The Passion of Anna

89

as Andreas Winkelman

Shame

79

as Jan Rosenberg

Hour of the Wolf

85

as Johan Borg

Black Palm Trees

as Gustav Olofsson

Hawaii

64

as Abner Hale

The Quiller Memorandum

60

as Oktober

The Greatest Story Ever Told

53

as Jesus

Interlude in the Marshland

as Alex Kvist

Winter Light

80

as Jonas Persson

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

62

as The Father

Through a Glass Darkly

86

as Martin

The Virgin Spring

85

as Töre

1950s

11 titles · average score 73

The Magician

84

as Albert Emanuel Vogler

Rabies

62

as Bo Stensson Svenningson

Brink of Life

63

as Harry Andersson

Spion 503

as Horst, Gestapo-mand

The Seventh Seal

87

as Antonius Block

The Minister of Uddarbo

as Gustaf Ömark

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

61

as Hunter

Wild Strawberries

87

as Åkerman

The Right to Love

as Bergman

No Man's Woman

as Olof

Miss Julie

67

as Groom

1940s

1 title · average score 67

Only a Mother

67

as Nils