page_title: Max von Sydow filmography
hierarchical_section_title: Max von Sydow filmography
caption_attribution_description: English: Max von Sydow at the Cannes Film Festival
context_page_description: Max von Sydow was a Swedish-French actor. Some of his most memorable film roles include Knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, 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; Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told; Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist; Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor; Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon; the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again; Liet-Kynes in Dune; Dr. Peter Ingham in Awakenings; Lamar Burgess in Minority Report and Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, for his roles as Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror and The Renter in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. On television, Sydow played the Three-eyed Raven in Game of Thrones. In 2011, he voiced Esbern in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
context_section_description: Max von Sydow (1929–2020) was a Swedish-French actor. 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); 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); Dr. Peter Ingham in Awakenings (1990); Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002) and Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He was nominated for two Academy Awards, for his roles as Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and The Renter in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012). On television, Sydow played the Three-eyed Raven in Game of Thrones. In 2011, he voiced Esbern in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
caption: Von Sydow at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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