Max von Sydow: movies and TV shows
Max von Sydow has 189 credits in the archive: 167 films and 22 TV series, from 1944 to 2026. Highest rated: Game of Thrones (8.5/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2026 · busiest year: 1995 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Resurrection of Christ | Film | — | 97 | |
| 2021 | Echoes of the Past | Nikolas Andreou (Aged) | Film | 6.5 | 92 |
| 2018 | Kursk | Admiral Vladimir Petrenko | Film | 6.6 | 89 |
| 2017 | Tuschinski's Dream | Film | — | 88 | |
| 2017 | Max von Sydow | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 88 |
| 2016 | The First, the Last | Le croque-mort | Film | 6.5 | 87 |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Lor San Tekka | Film | 7.2 | 86 |
| 2014 | I Am Divine | Self (archive) | Film | 7.3 | 85 |
| 2014 | The Letters | Celeste van Exem | Film | 5.5 | 85 |
| 2013 | Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures | Dr. Alistair Conis | Film | 5.5 | 84 |
| 2012 | Branded | Marketing Guru | Film | 4.7 | 83 |
| 2012 | Palme | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 83 |
| 2012 | Starring Sigmund Freud | Film | — | 83 | |
| 2012 | Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter | Self | Film | — | 83 |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones | Three-Eyed Raven | TV | 8.5 | 82 |
| 2011 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | The Renter | Film | 7.0 | 82 |
| 2011 | Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self | Film | 6.0 | 82 |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | Dr. Naehring | Film | 8.2 | 81 |
| 2010 | Robin Hood | Sir Walter Loxley | Film | 6.4 | 81 |
| 2010 | Behind the Moomins | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 81 |
| 2010 | The Last Norwegian Troll | The Last Norweigian Troll (voice) | Film | 6.7 | 81 |
| 2009 | Solomon Kane | Josiah Kane | Film | 6.0 | 80 |
| 2009 | Oscar and the Lady in Pink | Le docteur Dusseldorf | Film | 6.5 | 80 |
| 2009 | A Man and His Dog | Le commandant | Film | 5.8 | 80 |
| 2008 | Emotional Arithmetic | Jakob Bronski | Film | 5.5 | 79 |
| 2007 | The Tudors | Cardinal Von Waldburg | TV | 7.8 | 78 |
| 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | Varden Reynard | Film | 6.5 | 78 |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Papinou | Film | 7.6 | 78 |
| 2007 | L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII | Tiberio | TV | 5.0 | 78 |
| 2007 | The Final Inquiry | Tiberius | Film | 4.8 | 78 |
| 2005 | Heidi | Uncle Alp | Film | 7.7 | 76 |
| 2004 | Ring of the Nibelungs | Eyvind | Film | 6.3 | 75 |
| 2004 | Ring of the Nibelungs | Eyvind | TV | 7.8 | 75 |
| 2004 | Hidden Children | Valobra | Film | 6.1 | 75 |
| 2002 | Minority Report | Director Lamar Burgess | Film | 7.4 | 73 |
| 2001 | Intacto | Samuel | Film | 6.6 | 72 |
| 2001 | Druids | Guttuart | Film | 3.2 | 72 |
| 2001 | Sleepless | Moretti | Film | 6.1 | 72 |
| 2000 | Nuremberg | Samuel Rosenman | TV | 7.4 | 71 |
| 2000 | Light Keeps Me Company | Self | Film | 7.9 | 71 |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid | Freud | Film | 5.8 | 71 |
| 2000 | Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' | Self | Film | 6.8 | 71 |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Nels Gudmundsson | Film | 6.1 | 70 |
| 1998 | What Dreams May Come | The Tracker | Film | 7.2 | 69 |
| 1998 | The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist | Self - Father Merrin | Film | 7.4 | 69 |
| 1998 | Professione fantasma | Psicoanalista dell’aldilà | TV | 7.0 | 69 |
| 1997 | Solomon | Davide | Film | 6.8 | 68 |
| 1997 | The Princess and the Pauper | Epos | Film | 6.2 | 68 |
| 1997 | Hostile Waters | Admiral Chernavin | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 1997 | Their Frozen Dream | S.A. Andrée (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 68 |
| 1997 | Solomon | David | TV | — | 68 |
| 1997 | La principessa e il povero | Epos | TV | — | 68 |
| 1996 | Hamsun | Knut Hamsun | Film | 7.2 | 67 |
| 1996 | Private Confessions | Jacob | Film | 6.1 | 67 |
| 1996 | Jerusalem | Vicar | Film | 7.3 | 67 |
| 1996 | Delblanc | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 67 |
| 1995 | Judge Dredd | Chief Justice Fargo | Film | 5.9 | 66 |
| 1995 | Citizen X | Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky | Film | 7.2 | 66 |
| 1995 | Depth Solitude | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 1995 | Lumière & Company | Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman") | Film | 6.3 | 66 |
| 1995 | Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 66 |
| 1995 | The Atlantic | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 66 |
| 1995 | Radetzky March | Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje | TV | 5.9 | 66 |
| 1995 | Stjärnbilder | (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 66 |
| 1995 | Anders Zorn - Med egna ord | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 66 |
| 1994 | A che punto è la notte | Arcivescovo di Torino | TV | 8.0 | 65 |
| 1994 | Time is Money | Joe Kaufman | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 1994 | Onkel Vanja | The Professor | Film | 8.0 | 65 |
| 1993 | Needful Things | Leland Gaunt | Film | 6.3 | 64 |
| 1993 | Och ge oss skuggorna | Eugene O'Neill | Film | 8.5 | 64 |
| 1993 | Morfars resa | Simon S.L. Fromm | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 1993 | Minns ni? | (archive footage) | Film | — | 64 |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Sigmund Freud | TV | 6.5 | 63 |
| 1992 | The Best Intentions | Johan Åkerblom | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1992 | The Silent Touch | Henry Kesdi | Film | 5.0 | 63 |
| 1991 | Until the End of the World | Henry Farber | Film | 6.7 | 62 |
| 1991 | Europa | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.4 | 62 |
| 1991 | A Kiss Before Dying | Thor Carlsson | Film | 5.6 | 62 |
| 1991 | The Ox | Vicar | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 1991 | East of the Sun, West of the Moon | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 62 |
| 1990 | Awakenings | Peter Ingham | Film | 7.8 | 61 |
| 1990 | The Bachelor | Von Schleheim | Film | 9.0 | 61 |
| 1990 | Cellini: A Violent Life | Pope Clement VII | Film | 5.4 | 61 |
| 1990 | Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes | Father Siemes | Film | 6.3 | 61 |
| 1990 | Father | Joe Mueller | Film | 6.0 | 61 |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Klaus Ziegler (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 60 |
| 1989 | Ghostbusters II | Vigo (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 60 |
| 1989 | Red King, White Knight | Szaz | Film | 6.4 | 60 |
| 1989 | Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood | Self | Film | — | 60 |
| 1988 | Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern | Voice | Film | — | 59 |
| 1988 | The Human Factor | Film | — | 59 | |
| 1988 | Katinka | Film | 4.7 | 59 | |
| 1987 | Pelle the Conqueror | Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand | Film | 7.3 | 58 |
| 1987 | The Second Victory | Dr. Huber | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Frederick | Film | 7.5 | 57 |
| 1986 | The Wolf at the Door | August Strindberg | Film | 5.3 | 57 |
| 1986 | Duet for One | Dr. Louis Feldman | Film | 5.4 | 57 |
| 1986 | Gösta Berlings saga | Melchior Sinclaire | TV | 9.5 | 57 |
| 1985 | Christopher Columbus | Re Giovanni del Portogallo | TV | 6.2 | 56 |
| 1985 | Code Name: Emerald | Jürgen Brausch | Film | 6.6 | 56 |
| 1985 | Kojak: The Belarus File | Peter Barak | Film | 6.8 | 56 |
| 1985 | The Last Place on Earth | Fridtjof Nansen | TV | 7.4 | 56 |
| 1985 | Quo Vadis? | Petrus | TV | 5.9 | 56 |
| 1985 | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self | Film | 5.8 | 56 |
| 1985 | The Repenter | Spinola | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1984 | Dune | Doctor Kynes | Film | 6.2 | 55 |
| 1984 | Dreamscape | Paul Novotny | Film | 6.1 | 55 |
| 1984 | Samson and Delilah | Sidka | Film | 5.1 | 55 |
| 1984 | Le dernier civil | Gérard Bauerle | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1984 | The Soldier's Tale | The Devil (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 55 |
| 1983 | Never Say Never Again | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Film | 6.1 | 54 |
| 1983 | Strange Brew | Brewmeister Smith | Film | 6.0 | 54 |
| 1983 | Circle of Passions | Carlo di Vilalfratti | Film | 4.0 | 54 |
| 1983 | Destination Dune | Self | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 1982 | Conan the Barbarian | King Osric | Film | 6.8 | 53 |
| 1982 | Let Poland Be Poland | Self - Co-Host | Film | — | 53 |
| 1982 | The Flight of the Eagle | Salomon August Andrée | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1982 | Target Eagle | Coronel O'Donnell | Film | 5.5 | 53 |
| 1982 | The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer | Film | 5.8 | 53 | |
| 1981 | Escape to Victory | Major Karl von Steiner | Film | 6.9 | 52 |
| 1981 | The Guldbagge Awards | Self - Best Director winner | TV | 5.5 | 52 |
| 1981 | The Guldbagge Awards | Self - Host | TV | 5.5 | 52 |
| 1981 | The Guldbagge Awards | Self - Best Actor winner | TV | 5.5 | 52 |
| 1981 | She Dances Alone | Nijinsky (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 52 |
| 1981 | Venetian Lies | Marcello Herrighe | Film | 6.1 | 52 |
| 1980 | Flash Gordon | The Emperor Ming | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1980 | Death Watch | Gerald Mortenhoe | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1979 | Hurricane | Dr. Danielsson | Film | 4.7 | 50 |
| 1979 | A Look at Liv | Self | Film | 10.0 | 50 |
| 1978 | Brass Target | Shelley Martin Webber | Film | 5.5 | 49 |
| 1977 | Black Journal | Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal | Film | 5.5 | 48 |
| 1977 | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Father Lankester Merrin | Film | 4.6 | 48 |
| 1977 | March or Die | François Marneau | Film | 5.8 | 48 |
| 1976 | Voyage of the Damned | Captain Schroeder | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1976 | Illustrious Corpses | Supreme Court President | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1976 | Heart of a Dog | Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski | Film | 5.9 | 47 |
| 1976 | The Desert of the Tartars | Cap. Ortiz | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1976 | Foxtrot | Larsen | Film | 4.8 | 47 |
| 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | G. Joubert | Film | 7.3 | 46 |
| 1975 | Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story | The Father | Film | 5.8 | 46 |
| 1975 | The Broken Mirror | Matthew Lawrence | Film | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1975 | The Ultimate Warrior | Baron | Film | 5.8 | 46 |
| 1974 | The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 45 |
| 1974 | Steppenwolf | Harry Haller | Film | 5.8 | 45 |
| 1974 | The Emigrants | Karl Oskar | TV | 8.0 | 45 |
| 1973 | The Exorcist | Father Lankester Merrin | Film | 7.7 | 44 |
| 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | Self | Film | 6.2 | 43 |
| 1972 | The New Land | Karl Oskar | Film | 7.5 | 43 |
| 1972 | Embassy | Gorenko | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1971 | The Touch | Andreas Vergerus | Film | 5.9 | 42 |
| 1971 | The Night Visitor | Salem | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1971 | The Emigrants | Karl Oskar | Film | 7.4 | 42 |
| 1971 | The Apple War | Roy Lindberg | Film | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1970 | The Kremlin Letter | Colonel Kosnov | Film | 5.9 | 41 |
| 1969 | The Passion of Anna | Andreas Winkelman | Film | 7.4 | 40 |
| 1969 | Made in Sweden | Magnus Rud | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1968 | Shame | Jan Rosenberg | Film | 7.5 | 39 |
| 1968 | Hour of the Wolf | Johan Borg | Film | 7.4 | 39 |
| 1968 | Black Palm Trees | Gustav Olofsson | Film | 6.3 | 39 |
| 1968 | An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman | Self | Film | — | 39 |
| 1967 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Otto Frank | Film | 8.0 | 38 |
| 1966 | Hawaii | Abner Hale | Film | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1966 | The Quiller Memorandum | Oktober | Film | 5.9 | 37 |
| 1966 | Here Is Your Life | Smålands-Pelle | Film | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Jesus | Film | 6.4 | 36 |
| 1965 | Interlude in the Marshland | Alex Kvist | Film | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1965 | The Reward | Scott Swenson | Film | 6.0 | 36 |
| 1965 | 4 x 4 | Kvist | Film | 7.3 | 36 |
| 1964 | Grimme Award | Self | TV | — | 35 |
| 1964 | Dance Around the Guldbaggen | Self | Film | — | 35 |
| 1963 | Winter Light | Jonas Persson | Film | 7.9 | 34 |
| 1962 | Wonderful Adventures of Nils | The Father | Film | 6.1 | 33 |
| 1962 | The Mistress | The Man | Film | 6.0 | 33 |
| 1961 | Through a Glass Darkly | Martin | Film | 7.8 | 32 |
| 1960 | The Virgin Spring | Töre | Film | 7.9 | 31 |
| 1960 | The Wedding Day | Anders Frost | Film | 7.0 | 31 |
| 1958 | The Magician | Albert Emanuel Vogler | Film | 7.4 | 29 |
| 1958 | Brink of Life | Harry Andersson | Film | 7.5 | 29 |
| 1958 | Rabies | Bo Stensson Svenningson | Film | 6.5 | 29 |
| 1958 | Spion 503 | Horst, Gestapo-mand | Film | 5.7 | 29 |
| 1957 | The Seventh Seal | Antonius Block | Film | 8.2 | 28 |
| 1957 | Wild Strawberries | Åkerman | Film | 8.1 | 28 |
| 1957 | The Minister of Uddarbo | Gustaf Ömark | Film | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1957 | Mr. Sleeman Is Coming | Hunter | Film | 5.8 | 28 |
| 1956 | The Right to Love | Bergman | Film | 6.0 | 27 |
| 1953 | No Man's Woman | Olof | Film | 6.5 | 24 |
| 1951 | Miss Julie | Groom | Film | 6.6 | 22 |
| 1949 | Only a Mother | Nils | Film | 7.1 | 20 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee / Presenter | TV | 7.1 | 15 |