Actor, Max von Sydow, dies at 90

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https://variety.com/2020/film/actors/seventh-seal-star-wars-actor-max-von-sydow-dies-at-90-1203527411/

Max von Sydow, the tall, tragic-faced Swedish actor whose name was virtually synonymous with the films of Ingmar Bergman, has died. He was 90.

Variety has confirmed that the actor died on Sunday.

Von Sydow, who became Bergman’s symbol for the modern man in such films as “The Passion of Anna” and “Shame” after making his Bergman debut as the errant knight in “The Seventh Seal,” also had an unusually prolific career in Hollywood and international films.

He made his American debut in the role of Jesus Christ in George Stevens’ turgid 1965 epic “The Greatest Story Ever Told” and went on to make strong impressions with audiences in “The Exorcist,” Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters,” David Lynch’s “Dune,” “Three Days of the Condor,” “Hawaii,” “Conan the Barbarian” and “Awakenings.”

Von Sydow worked for other Scandinavian directors as well, drawing an Oscar nomination for his role in Bille August’s “Pelle the Conqueror” and starring in Jan Troell’s acclaimed two-part epic “The Emigrants” and “The New Land.”

[Beringia]

1. A wonderful actor, thanks Mr Von Sydow

[Aristus]

2. Excellent actor, with a spellbinding screen presence.

He will be missed...

[Pachamama]

4. +100000

One of my favorites

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Strange Brew , Robin Hood, and many many more films...

R.I.P Max

[Laelth]

5. Hail Ming!

-Laelth

[Laelth]

12. .

-Laelth

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

15. "....Hail Ming."

*Insert pic of Brian Blessed as Prince Voltan rolling his eyes as he says this.*

(I couldn't find the one I wanted on the internet.)

[Laelth]

17. Absolutely!

That’s precisely what I heard as I typed the “Hail Ming” above. Voltan wasn’t going to sacrifice his daughter. We got a superior eye-roll from Brian Blessed in that scene.



-Laelth

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. RIP

He was a great actor. Even got to appear in at least one Star Wars movie as well!

[Wounded Bear]

7. RIP Duke Leto Atreides...

[Laelth]

10. He was the Judge of the Change, not Duke Leto.

He was also the father of Chani, Muad’dib’s lover.



-Laelth

[edhopper]

8. He lost his chess match

RIP to a great actor.

[Tanuki]

9. I have been thinking a lot about this film, The Seventh Seal, as we gear up

for the coronavirus pandemic. Time to see it again! Van Sydow was a brilliant actor, and that scene was heartbreakingly poignant.

[Laelth]

11. +1

In the end, we all lose that chess match.



-Laelth

[Act_of_Reparation]

13. There is only one.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Three Days of the Condor:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Most recently he was the three eyed raven on Game of Thrones