He attended the acting academy at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'," he later told The Guardian. "During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. He was born Carl Adolf von Sydow, according to reports, but changed his name after deciding to act for a living. Von Sydow was born in Lund, Sweden, but later became a French citizen. The couple later divorced and he married French filmmaker Catherine Brelet in 1997, with whom he had two more sons, Yvan and Cedric.Ī scene from the film Minority Report, with Max Von Sydow (left) portraying Lamar Burgess and Tom Cruise (right) as John Anderton Von Sydow married Swedish actress Christina Olin in 1951 and had two sons, Clas and Henrik. 'I think that for many years I used my profession as some kind of a mental therapy.' Now I could do it with the character as a shield, as a defense, and as an excuse. 'I was allowed to express all kinds of strange things that I never dared to express before. 'When I started acting in an amateur group in high school, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, I suddenly got a tool in my hand that was wonderful. 'I was a very shy boy when I was a kid,' he once said in an Associated Press interview. While his characters were often sinister, tormented or evil, the soft-spoken Von Sydow said he became an actor to overcome his own shyness. The following year, he portrayed the mysterious Three-Eyed Raven in HBO's Game Of Thrones, receiving a Primetime Emmy nomination.Īlthough originally from Sweden, Von Sydow lived in France for many years and eventually took French citizenship. In 2015, von Sydow joined the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, portraying Lor San Tekka who appeared at the very start of the film. He also played sinister James Bond super-villain Ernst Blofeld in 1983's Never Say Never Again.ĭuring his extensive film career he worked with a number of heavyweight directors, such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg. He received a second Oscar nomination, for best supporting actor, in 2011 for his role in the post-9/11 film Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close. Hollywood stars have taken to social media to share their tributes and fond memories of the late actor
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