this guy!
Some of his most memorable film roles include Knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957), the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death; Martin in Through a Glass Darkly (1961); Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum (1966); Karl Oskar Nilsson in The Emigrants (1971); Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist (1973); Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor (1975); Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980); the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983); Liet-Kynes in Dune (1984); Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror (1987), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination; Dr. Peter Ingham in Awakenings (1990); Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002) and The Renter in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012), which earned him his second Academy Award nomination.
iirc he could also crush yr head like a nut
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:43 (eleven years ago)
restrained myself from WHERE IS THE LOVE? FOR MAX VON SYDOW or CAN IT TRULY BE THAT THERE IS NO THREAD ABOUT MAX VON SYDOW you're welcome
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago)
http://thenewinquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Max-Von-Sydow.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:49 (eleven years ago)
otm i always thought he was so hotbut he looks weird in that picture
― sent from my butt (harbl), Thursday, 19 December 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago)
he was born with baggy eyes, but it's cool
http://showbizgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/max-von-sydow-jesus.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 December 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago)
harbl, I think he looks totally hot in that picture.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 19 December 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago)
Actually think he's quite corny in Hannah and Her Sisters, the worst thing in a film I like--or at least the character is. He's close to a parody of an anguished Bergman character.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 December 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago)
(Although his bickering with Daniel Stern is funny..."Is it big? I want big.")
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 December 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago)
btw it's pronounced von SEEDOV, apparently
classic Dave Thomas sketch from his 1990 five-episode sketch show on CBS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pb6iI1r8zw
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 October 2015 20:55 (nine years ago)
have some muesli
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 01:40 (nine years ago)
Checkmate. RIP.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:46 (five years ago)
To co-star in Seventh Sea, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, and (best) Shame for the same director is a formidable achievement. And his best work was for Jan Troell.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:47 (five years ago)
I've seen bits of Seventh Seal but never the whole thing.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 March 2020 14:52 (five years ago)
Hat in hand. Amazing career.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:38 (five years ago)
Max von Sydow Memorial Poll
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:21 (five years ago)
obit roundup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6852-the-wide-and-deep-range-of-max-von-sydow
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 15:44 (five years ago)
hope we get a NYC retro
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:59 (five years ago)
Criterion Channel did a good job getting a tribute package up same day the news came out.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:30 (five years ago)