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His voice is deep, sonorous, rumbling with quiet gravitas. Few actors are as readily recognizable by their vocal cords as Max von Sydow, the great Swedish actor who arrived on the international scene in 1957, as a knight who encounters Death — and plays chess with him — in Ingmar Bergman’s classic, “The Seventh Seal.” Von ... (more)

His voice is deep, sonorous, rumbling with quiet gravitas. Few actors are as readily recognizable by their vocal cords as Max von Sydow, the great Swedish actor who arrived on the international scene in 1957, as a knight who encounters Death - and plays chess with him - in Ingmar Bergman's classic, "The Seventh Seal." Von Sydow would make 10 more ... (more)

"Say hello to St. Paul!" says Max von Sydow, who spent a month in "very pretty parts of Minnesota" when he was shooting the Swedish movie "The Emigrants" in 1970.

Few actors are as readily recognizable by their vocal cords as Max von Sydow, the great Swedish actor who arrived on the international scene in 1957, as a knight who encounters Death - and plays chess with him - in Ingmar Bergman's classic, "The Seventh Seal." Von Sydow would make 10 more films with Bergman .

ORLANDO, Fla. - "When you're young," the Swedish screen legend Max Von Sydow says, "it's always 'I'll do it tomorrow.' But when you're older, now, it IS tomorrow.