biography
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Sydow, Max von
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originally Carl Adolf von Sydow [sidov]
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pronunciation:
[sidoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Actor, born in Lund, S Sweden. He studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School, Stockholm (1948–51). Following his film debut in 1949, he began a long professional association with the director Ingmar Bergman at the Municipal Theatre of Malmö. Sydow's aloof presence well suited the brooding characterizations portrayed in such Bergman films as The Seventh Seal (1957) and Through a Glass Darkly (1961). American film successes include his roles as Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), the priest in The Exorcist (1973), Pelle, the Conqueror (1988), and Emperor Ming in Flash Gordon (1980). Later films include Awakenings (1991), Hamsun (1996), and Snow Falling on Cedars (1999). |
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