What was Max von Sydow’s net worth?
Max von Sydow was a Swedish-French actor who had a net worth of $16 million at the time of his death. Max von Sydow died on March 8, 2020, aged 90, at his home in France. Max von Sydow’s career spanned 70 years in film, television and theater. He rose to international fame in 1957 for his role in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and went on to appear in several of Bergman’s later films. Among von Sydow’s many other notable credits are the films “The Exorcist,” “Pelle the Conqueror,” “Flash Gordon” and “Hannah and Her Sisters” and the television series “Game of Thrones.”
Youth and education
Max von Sydow was born on 10 April 1929 in Lund, Sweden, to Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and teacher, and Baroness Maria Margareta Rappe, a teacher. In his youth, he went to Lund Cathedral School. Von Sydow first became interested in acting when he saw a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream while on a field trip; later, he created an amateur theater group with his schoolmates. He later served for two years in the Swedish army. After this, Sydow studied at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm and made her stage debut in a production of Goethe’s Egmont.
Career beginnings
Von Sydow made her feature film debut in 1949, appearing in a supporting role in Alf Sjoberg’s drama Only a Mother. He reunited with Sjoberg two years later for a big screen adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. In the same year, von Sydow joined the Norrkoping-Linkoping Municipal Theatre, appearing in nine plays. In 1953, he then moved to the Halsingborg City Theatre, where he played roles such as Prospero in ‘The Tempest’ and Pirandello in ‘Henry IV’. In recognition of his achievements, von Sydow was honored with the Royal Swedish Foundation’s Cultural Award.
In 1955, von Sydow moved to Malmo and joined the Malmo City Theatre, directed at the time by director Ingmar Bergman. The following year, he appeared in Mimi Pollak’s Ratten att alska.
“The Seventh Seal” and other Bergman collaborations
Von Sydow had his breakthrough role in 1957 when he starred in his first film directed by Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal. He played Antonius Block, a medieval knight who challenges Death to a game of chess in plague-ridden Sweden. The film was a major success, launching both Bergman and von Sydow to global fame and significantly influencing the trajectory and cultural cachet of international art cinema. Von Sydow went on to appear in 11 more films for Bergman over the following decades. At the same time as “The Seventh Seal”, he had a supporting role in “Wild Strawberries”. He was then in “Brink of Life”, “Rabie”, “The Magician”, “The Virgin Spring”, “Through a Glass Darkly”, “Winter Light”, “Hour of the Wolf”, “Shame” and “Passions “. Anna”. Von Sydow’s last Bergman film was 1971’s The Touch,
Cinematic career further
After years of working exclusively in Sweden, von Sydow made his international film debut in George Stevens’ 1965 biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told, portraying Jesus Christ. He later appeared in the western “The Reward” and the epic drama “Hawaii,” for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination. Von Sydow followed that with roles in “The Quiller Memorandum,” “Here’s Your Life,” “The Kremlin Letter,” “The Night Visitor,” “The Emigrants,” “The Apple War,” “Embassy,” and “The New “. “. Terrain.” In 1973, he had one of his biggest commercial hits with the supernatural horror film The Exorcist, in which he played Father Lankester Merrin; for his performance, he earned his second Golden Globe nomination. Von Sydow’s later credits included “Steppenwolf”; “Egg! Egg! A great story”; “Three Days of the Condor”; “The Ultimate Warrior”; “Illustrious Corpses”; “Foxtrot”; “Journey of the Damned”; “The Black Diary”; and “Hurricane”.
In the 1980s, von Sydow had memorable roles as villains in the space opera “Flash Gordon” and the James Bond film “Never Say Never Again.” He has also starred in Conan the Barbarian, Strange Brew, David Lynch’s Dune and Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters, among other titles. Towards the end of the decade, von Sydow earned his first Academy Award nomination for his leading role in Bille August’s Palme d’Or-winning film Pelle the Conqueror. In the 90s, he had notable roles in ‘Awakenings’, ‘The Best Intentions’, ‘Judge Dredd’, ‘Hamsun’, ‘What Dreams May Come’ and ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’. At the turn of the next century, von Sydow had one of his most commercially successful films with Steven Spielberg. s “Minority report”. Later, he acted in films like ‘The Inquiry’, ‘Rush Hour 3’, ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’, ‘Shutter Island’ and ‘Robin Hood’. In 2011, von Sydow earned his second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actor, for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Among his recent films were “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, “The First, the Last” and “Kursk”.
Television career
Von Sydow made his small screen debut in 1957 in the Swedish television film Mr. Sleeman is coming.” Ten years later, he played Otto Frank in the television movie The Diary of Anne Frank. After not much work on the small screen in the 1970s, Von Sydow returned to television films in the 1980s, appearing in “Samson and Delilah,” “Le Dernier Civil,” “Kojak: The Belarus File” and “Red, White King”. Knight.” Throughout the decade, he also starred in several miniseries episodes, including The Last Place on Earth, Quo Vadis? and “Christopher Columbus.”
In the 1990s, von Sydow continued to appear in television films. His credits included Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes, Uncle Vanya, Citizen X, Private Confessions and Hostile Waters. In addition, he portrayed the biblical David in the miniseries “Solomon”. Von Sydow worked less frequently in the 00s, but had roles in the miniseries “Nuremberg” and the TV movie “Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King.” In 2009, he had a recurring role as Cardinal von Walburg in the historical fiction series The Tudors. Von Sydow had his last television role in 2016, playing the three-eyed raven in the HBO fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” For his performance, he earned an Emmy Award nomination.
Personal life and death
In 1951, von Sydow married actress Christina Inga Britta Olin. Together, they had two sons named Clas and Henrik; they later divorced in 1979. Almost two decades later, in 1997, von Sydow married French filmmaker Catherine Brelet and adopted their two adults, Yvan and Cedric. Following this marriage, he moved to Paris and became a French citizen while renouncing his Swedish citizenship.
Von Sydow died in March 2020 at his home in Provence, France. He was 90 years old.
