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Max von Sydow - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Two-time Academy Award nominee and Knight of the Legion of Honor, actor Max von Sydow was born on April 10, 1929. The family of the future actor lived in Lund, Sweden. His mother worked as a teacher at the school, and his father was a connoisseur of Scandinavian folklore. He was brought up by a diligent Lutheran.
From 1947 to 1951 he studied at the Royal Theater School in Stockholm. After finishing his student years, he worked in this very theater, in particular, in productions of the famous Ingmar Bergman. At the same time, in 1948, the first film with the participation of Max von Sydow was released. The tape was called Just Mother. Truly the first success in big cinema can be considered the work of the same Bergman in the movie-parable The Seventh Seal. For a long time he acted in Swedish cinema, earning great popularity in the country, and from the mid-sixties his career began to flourish in Hollywood. He worked with outstanding masters of art, the role of Max von Sydow could be seen in the films of Woody Allen, Sidney Pollack, Francesco Rosi, David Lynch and other directors. His collaboration with Ingmar Bergman continued for several years. The most memorable works in the United States are considered his appearances in films such as The Exorcist, Conan the Barbarian, Dune, Flash Gordon. For his creative work, he managed to star in more than two hundred films, and the modern viewer should be remembered for his participation in the action movie Judge Dredd, the thrillers Minority Report and Isle of the Damned, the drama The Spacesuit and the Butterfly, as well as in the historical film about Robin Hood.
His work in the films Pelle the Conqueror and Terribly Loud and Extremely Close were noted by film critics, which brought the actor two nominations for the Golden Statuette of the American Academy. He is one of the greatest European actors to achieve great success in Hollywood.
Max von Sydow has blue eyes, naturally light hair, fair skin and thin lips. The shape of the face is rectangular, the forehead is medium, the hair is straight, gray. Max von Sydow does not change hair color, giving preference to natural. The actor has a medium, narrow nose and a pointed chin. The actor's height is 193 cm, no tattoos.
