translated from Spanish: At the age of 90, Max Von Sydow, actor of The Exorcist and Game of Thrones, died

Max von Sydow the Swedish actor nominated for an Oscar twice, in 1989 for Pelle the Conqueror and for in 2012 for So Strong, So Close, he has died at the age of 90. He also appeared in films such as The Seventh Seal, The Maiden’s Spring, The Exorcist or Hannah and her sisters. More recently the actor was also part of the cast of one of the last installments of the Star Wars series and participated in several episodes of the popular Game of Thrones series. It was his wife, Catherine von Sydow, who has confirmed “with great sadness” the death of the actor at the weekly Paris Match. “With a broken heart and infinite sadness, we have the extreme pain of announcing Max von Sydow’s departure on March 8, 2020,” the actor’s wife said. Born on 10 April 1929 in Lund, Sweden into a family of aristocratic roots and the son of teachers, Max Carl Adolf von Sydow began to take his first steps in acting in the amateur theatre of his school. She trained at the ‘Dramaten’ in Stockholm and during her studio years there found an opportunity to make her big screen debut with director Alf Sjoberg in the film Only a Mother (1949). Then came the director who would decisively mark his career, Ingmar Bergman, who made him his fetish actor. In 1957 he shot at his command Mr. Sleeman, Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal. Three more titles the following year – Rabies, On the Threshold of Life, The Face – would make Max von Sydow precisely the film festival of the Swedish genius. His fruitful collaboration was extended The Spring of the Maiden (1960) in Como en un espejo (1961) or Los Comulgantes (1963), until in 1965 the actor made the leap to Hollywood in the biblical blockbuster The Greatest Story Ever told where he shared with poster Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston, Claude Rains, José Ferrer, Telly Savalas or Martin Landau.He re-shot with Bergman two films, Shame and The Hour of the Wolf, both released in 1968, and a year later Passion. He also accompanied the director in his first American production, La Carcoma (1971), before he got the role that gave him the role that gave him world fame, that of Father Merrin in the legendary horror film The Exorcist.Another of his most popular roles was that of the evil villain Emperor Ming in the film adaptation of the popular comic Flash Gordon (1980) and also participated with Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine or the footballer Pelé in the mythical Evasion or Victory (1981). Conan, the Barbarian (1982), the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), the adaptation of Dune (1984) directed by David Lynch or Hannah and his sisters (1986) by Woody Allen were other titles that marked his long career. His first Oscar nomination came in 1989 as best leading actor for his work in the Danish film Pelle the Conqueror, a film that would eventually rise with the statuette for best foreign speaking film. The Oscar for Best Actor that year went to Dustin Hoffman for his work on Rain Man.In 2012 he would re-host the Hollywood Academy Award, in this case for Best Supporting Actor, for his work on the drama So Strong, So Close, So Close , but on that occasion the award went to another veteran, Christopher Plummer, for his performance in Beginners (Beginners). Other popular titles in his imposing filmography are Judge Dreed (1995), Beyond Dreams (1998), Minority Report (2002), The Scandandandand and the Butterfly (2007), Robin Hood (2010) or Shutter Island (2010) under Martin Scorsese. Previously, in 2001, he shot Intacto, his first Spanish production under Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.Kursk, a film released in 2018 that recounts the tragedy of the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk that took place in August 2000 has been his last film to see the light , though in 2018, although Max von Sydow still has a film pending release, Echoes of the Past, a drama directed by Nicholas Dimitropoulos.

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