Max von Sydow
Born April 10, 1929 (Age: 97)
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Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
Biography
Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; April 10, 1929 – March 8, 2020) was a Swedish actor. He also held French citizenship since 2002. He starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He performed in films filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish. Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic shot of his career in the scene where he plays chess with Death), Jesus in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkin's The Exorcist, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, and Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award - Best Leading Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).
Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; April 10, 1929 – March 8, 2020) was a Swedish actor. He also held French citizenship since 2002. He starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He performed in films filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish.
Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic shot of his career in the scene where he plays chess with Death), Jesus in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkin's The Exorcist, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, and Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon.
He was twice nominated for the Academy Award - Best Leading Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).
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Filmography
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
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as Lor San Tekka
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Age: 86
No Image
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012
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as
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Age: 83
Branded
2012
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as Marketing Guru
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Age: 83
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
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as The Renter
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Age: 82
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
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as Self
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Age: 82
Behind the Moomins
2010
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 81
Robin Hood
2010
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as Sir Walter Loxley
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Age: 81
Shutter Island
2010
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as Dr. Naehring
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Age: 80
The Wolfman
2010
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as Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
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Age: 80
Solomon Kane
2009
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as Josiah Kane
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Age: 80
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009
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as Le docteur Dusseldorf
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Age: 80
Rush Hour 3
2007
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as Varden Reynard
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Age: 78
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
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as Papinou
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Age: 78
The Final Inquiry
2007
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as Tiberius
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Age: 77
Heidi
2005
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as Uncle Alp
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Age: 76
Minority Report
2002
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as Director Lamar Burgess
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Age: 73
Intacto
2001
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as Samuel
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Age: 72
Light Keeps Me Company
2000
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as Self
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Age: 71
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
2000
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as Self
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Age: 71
What Dreams May Come
1998
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as The Tracker
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Age: 69
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
1998
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as Self - Father Merrin
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Age: 69
Solomon
1997
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as Davide
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Age: 68
The Princess and the Pauper
1997
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as Epos
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Age: 68
Hostile Waters
1997
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as Admiral Chernavin
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Age: 68
Their Frozen Dream
1997
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as S.A. Andrée (voice)
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Age: 68
Private Confessions
1996
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as Jacob
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Age: 67
Jerusalem
1996
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as Vicar
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Age: 67
Hamsun
1996
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as Knut Hamsun
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Age: 67
Delblanc
1996
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 66
Judge Dredd
1995
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as Chief Justice Fargo
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Age: 66
Onkel Vanja
1994
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as The Professor
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Age: 65
Time is Money
1994
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as Joe Kaufman
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Age: 65
Minns ni?
1993
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 64
Needful Things
1993
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as Leland Gaunt
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Age: 64
Morfars resa
1993
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as Simon S.L. Fromm
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Age: 63
Och ge oss skuggorna
1993
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as Eugene O'Neill
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Age: 63
The Silent Touch
1992
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as Henry Kesdi
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Age: 63
The Best Intentions
1992
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as Johan Åkerblom
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Age: 63
The Ox
1991
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as Vicar
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Age: 62
Until the End of the World
1991
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as Henry Farber
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Age: 62
No Image
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
1991
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 62
Europa
1991
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 62
A Kiss Before Dying
1991
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as Thor Carlsson
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Age: 62
Awakenings
1990
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as Peter Ingham
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Age: 61
Father
1990
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as Joe Mueller
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Age: 61
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990
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as Father Siemes
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Age: 61
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
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as Pope Clement VII
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Age: 61
The Bachelor
1990
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as Von Schleheim
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Age: 60
Red King, White Knight
1989
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as Szaz
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Age: 60
Ghostbusters II
1989
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as Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 60
No Image
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
1989
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as Self
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Age: 59
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
1988
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as Voice
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Age: 59
No Image
The Human Factor
1988
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as
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Age: 58
Pelle the Conqueror
1987
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as Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
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Age: 58
The Second Victory
1987
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as Dr. Huber
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Age: 58
Duet for One
1986
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as Dr. Louis Feldman
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Age: 57
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
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as Frederick
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Age: 56
The Repenter
1985
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as Spinola
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Age: 56
Code Name: Emerald
1985
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as Jürgen Brausch
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Age: 56
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
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as Self
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Age: 55
Kojak The Belarus File
1985
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as Peter Barak
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Age: 55
Dune
1984
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as Doctor Kynes
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Age: 55
Dreamscape
1984
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as Paul Novotny
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Age: 55
Never Say Never Again
1983
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as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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Age: 54
Strange Brew
1983
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as Brewmeister Smith
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Age: 54
Conan the Barbarian
1982
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as King Osric
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Age: 52
Venetian Lies
1981
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as Marcello Herrighe
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Age: 52
Escape to Victory
1981
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as Major Karl von Steiner
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Age: 52
She Dances Alone
1981
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as Nijinsky (voice)
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Age: 52
Flash Gordon
1980
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as The Emperor Ming
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Age: 51
Death Watch
1980
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as Gerald Mortenhoe
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Age: 50
Brass Target
1978
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as Shelley Martin Webber
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Age: 49
March or Die
1977
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as François Marneau
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Age: 48
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
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as Father Lankester Merrin
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Age: 48
Three Days of the Condor
1975
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as G. Joubert
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Age: 46
Steppenwolf
1974
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as Harry Haller
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Age: 45
No Image
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 44
The Exorcist
1973
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as Father Lankester Merrin
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Age: 44
Ingmar Bergman
1972
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as Self
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Age: 42
Embassy
1972
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as Gorenko
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Age: 42
The New Land
1972
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as Karl Oskar
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Age: 42
The Touch
1971
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as Andreas Vergerus
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Age: 42
The Passion of Anna
1969
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as Andreas Winkelman
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Age: 40
Made in Sweden
1969
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as Magnus Rud
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Age: 39
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
1968
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as Self
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Age: 39
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
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as Oktober
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Age: 37
Hawaii
1966
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as Abner Hale
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Age: 37
The Reward
1965
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as Scott Swenson
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Age: 36
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
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as Jesus
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Age: 35
4 x 4
1965
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as Kvist
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Age: 35
Interlude in the Marshland
1965
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as Alex Kvist
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Age: 35
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
1964
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as Self
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Age: 35
Winter Light
1963
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as Jonas Persson
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Age: 33
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1962
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as The Father
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Age: 33
The Mistress
1962
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as The Man
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Age: 32
Through a Glass Darkly
1961
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as Martin
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Age: 32
The Wedding Day
1960
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as Anders Frost
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Age: 31
The Virgin Spring
1960
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as Töre
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Age: 30
The Magician
1958
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as Albert Emanuel Vogler
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Age: 29
Rabies
1958
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as Bo Stensson Svenningson
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Age: 29
Spion 503
1958
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as Horst, Gestapo-mand
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Age: 29
Brink of Life
1958
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as Harry Andersson
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Age: 28
The Right to Love
1956
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as Bergman
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Age: 26
No Man's Woman
1953
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as Olof
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Age: 24