Swedish actor Max Von Sydow, died at the age of 90, has appeared in over 100 films. Here are some of his most famous roles:
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Veteran critic Terrence Rafferty described Max Von Sydow, seen here in one of his most famous roles in The Exorcist, as “the greatest living actor” in a 2015 Atlantic article
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The star played Father Merrin in the famous 1973 adaptation of William Friedkin in the novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty. With makeup, he’s 30 for the role
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He played Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told in 1965. The epic film had a cast of stars including Charlton Heston and Angela Lansbury
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The star got a Golden Globes nomination for his portrait of a man determined to bring Christianity to Maui in the 1820s in the 1966 film in Hawaii – here he is pictured with his wife on screen, Julie Andrews
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He played with Liv Ullman in Hour of the Wolf of 1968, the premiere of the Ingmar Bergman trilogy in which he plays a tortured artist.
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Ullman and Von Sydow also acted together in the 1971 film The Emigrants. He also appeared in the sequel, The New Land. The film followed the journey of farmers and religious outcasts from Småland to Minnesota in the 19th century
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He was nominated for two Oscars during his career – including best actor in 1987 for Pelle the Conqueror. His other nomination came much later – for the 2011 family drama Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Von Sydow (left) also played the father of a man with confinement syndrome in the 2007 Julian Schnabel film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – it is based on a true story of a French man who suffered a stroke
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The actor was praised for portraying a hitman in Three Days of the Condor (1975) – his character is hired to eliminate colleagues from CIA analyst Robert Redford at the New York office of the American Literary Historical Society
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