Max von Sydow News

It's the second Oscar nomination for the Swedish actor; his first was for 1987's "Pelle the Conqueror," and the 82-year-old shows no signs of slowing down.

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The Aero Theatre has just added an evening dedicated to Oscar nominee Max von Sydow: On Feb.

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Max von Sydow gets a surprise nomination at age 82 -Max von Sydow's career dates all the way back to roles in the landmark Swedish films "Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries" . He's had an excellent and unsung career in films as diverse as "Minority Report", "Hannah and her Sisters", and "Awakenings." Viola Davis becomes the second ... (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 ... (more)

Tall, gaunt and eminently Nordic, the snowy-haired Swede named Max von Sydow is not just a living legend but a legend who has lived.

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 .