MAX VON SYDOW is dead to me!

I thought he was already dead.

What a great career! RIP

Incredible actor. What a great career he has. So many iconic movies.

What a great actor - actually one of the greatest ever. Shame on the fucking Academy for not giving him what would have been a well deserved Honorary Oscar years ago.

Just so many great films and roles. Shame, The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist, Private Conversations and he made a great villain in the cheesy Flash Gordon. Always brought class to whatever he appeared in. A true legend.

The Exorcist curse strikes again!

He also made a great Bond villain in Never say never again.

I think tomorrow I will rewatch all of his scenes in Game of Thrones.

I was stoned when I first saw him in Steppenwolf. Trippy.

HIs early career in Sweden and his first films in English defined him as one of the greatest living actors. Playing chess with Death in The 7th Seal, Wild Strawberries, with Liv Ullman in The Emigrants and Pelle the Conquerer.

His later film gigs in English were an embarrassment, done for the pay packet rather than for the artistic challenge.

What a great actor! Played Jesus and then played Ming the Merciless - talk about range! Love you, Max - go get your prize, dude!

R8

Was he in The Virgin Spring and Hour of the Wolf as well? Great Bergman's works.

R10 Yep, von Sydow appeared in several Bergman films, including The Virgin Spring and Hour of the Wolf (another appearance with Liv Ullmann and the late, great Erland Josefsson) in which he did some of his finest work.

Amazing actor, always a delight to watch. He will be missed.

RIP Max.

The only actors still with us from the Bergman stable are Liv Ullmann & Harriet Andersson. There would be some other minor ones but from the top tier Bergman group Liv & Harriet are the last two.

He gets no sympathy from me.

I’ve never gotten over what he did to Sunny.

The power of Christ compelled him..

Dead to us in a time of plague. Just like THE SEVENTH SEAL!

It's so sad when someone no one heard of and even fewer people care about dies.

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r18 = uncultured swine

He was still alive?

I don't sell my paintings by the yard.

R18, you're speaking of yourself. Max von Sydow is known to anyone who has seen any number of great movies over the course of decades. Your ignorance is not something I would brag about if I were you, hunty.

But then again, R18 is too stupid to know better. Silly cunt R18.

R8 - FILM SNOB ALERT!

So young.

How can we forget him in Needful Things? Wonderful.

[quote] How can we forget him in Needful Things?

These things happen.

The makeup artists in The Exorcist did an excellent job making a handsome Van Sydow look prematurely aged.

That was some good makeup in The Exorcist--I thought he was in this 60s back then!

Mind-blowing fact: Max Von Sydow ca. The Exorcist and Tobey Maguire are the same age -- 44.

My condolences!

Was he gay?

As Yeshua

One of the greatest actors of all time. And he never won an Oscar. Which shows you how much an Oscar is worth.

R35 “If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.” - Hannah and Her Sisters

And he should know.

I agree, R37. Here's the clip

She was a good girl. May she RIP. Had to be coronavirus.

He had a hypnotic ring but he couldn't live forever.

I know we won't hear from Susan Dey, but how about Linda Blair?

Max Von Sydow young. 90 years old when he died.

His last movie hasn't been released yet. Oscar bait? Cancer, Nazis, massacre, fateful meetings...

"Echoes of the Past" is a topical, fictional drama, inspired in part by a true event, the infamous massacre of Kalavryta by Nazi troops on December 13th, 1943. The story is being told through a series of flashbacks as Nikolaos Andreou, an acclaimed writer dying of cancer, poignantly narrates his personal experience as a young child to Caroline Martin, a top-notch lawyer representing Germany's Federal Republic government on the Greek WWII reparations claims. Their fateful meeting will change both characters in ways they could never have imagined.

RIP

To me he’s royalty.

One of the giants.

[quote]I know we won't hear from Susan Dey, but how about Linda Blair?

Was he on the DL Death List for 2020?

I keep meaning to see the film "Hawaii." It was one of my favorite novels of all time.

An excellent actor. I first encountered him as a kid watching "Dune". The film is hard to defend (although I actually love it) but his performance stands out as a model of understated dignity and power conveyed through humility in what is otherwise basically a shrieking camp-fest that makes John Waters look like John Cage. (And I genuinely mean that in a good way.)

R49, Sian Phillips also gives a good performance in "Dune". Eg. the scene were she tests Kyle M with the box.