He especially loved Irish ones, and went over there and taught himself Gaelic and translated these stories, stories that no one else in the world knew about, and would read them to me at night. The elderly Father Merrin (Max von Sydow), a Jesuit experienced in exorcism, confronts an ancient evil spirit at an archaeological dig outside Mosul, an area now controlled by Isis. They are Harry Potter's chess set: Before a life-or-death match in the 2001 film. My father was a professor, and he studied them at the university. “But I have always loved legends, especially British ones. It’s just gone to Michael Caine…”) But what really puzzles me is that both parts he lusted after were in films that are basically fairy tales.
“And the same thing happened with The Lord of the Rings,” he notes sadly, “I rang my agent, but they had to be British actors.” It does seem unfair that the Brits have such a monopoly on old-geezer parts (I have a mental image of Von Sydow ringing to inquire about an Ingmar Bergman biopic, set in the wild archipelagos of Sweden, and being told, “Oh, bad luck, Mr Von Sydow. He rang her again a few months later, and she told him all the parts were going to British actors. She had not heard of the book, said she would make inquiries, but didn’t ring back. Who is the actor Hes a two-time Oscar nominee who you might recognize from movies like Minority Report, Shutter Island, and Extremely Loud & Incredibly.
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“Yes, that is true.” It turns out that, well before the hype, he read an article in Time magazine about Harry, and, rather perspicaciously, rang up his British agent to ask if there would be a part for an older wizard. With a tweet posted from HBO Max on April 12, 2023, fans can celebrate the official confirmation that the Harry Potter TV show is in production. “The Harry Potter film,” she says, “you saw that first, didn’t you, Max, and you rang your agent, because you wanted a part.” Another sigh from Von Sydow. Legendary actor Max von Sydow is joining Game of Thrones season 6, and unlike other recent castings. I ask another question (are there any parts in the last few years that he has coveted?), and sure enough his answer (“Hmm… no, I don’t think so”) is quickly unravelled by his wife.
Seems he wanted in for either Potter or LOTR! In 2011, he voiced Esbern in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.Midnightgirl sends in these small clips from an interview the actor recently gave to The Independent.
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He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages. On television, von Sydow played the Three-eyed Raven in Game of Thrones. Max von Sydow (/ f n s i d o /, Swedish: fn sydv born Carl Adolf von Sydow 10 April 1929 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor. Von Sydow was nominated for two Academy Awards, for his roles as Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and The Renter in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012). Peter Ingham in Awakenings (1990) Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002) and Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Other roles include as Father Merrin in The Exorcist (1973) Joubert in Three Days of the Condor (1975) Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980) the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983) Liet-Kynes in Dune (1984) Dr. Von Sydow started his cinematic career in his native country in 1949 and two of his most memorable roles include Knight Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal (1957), the first of his eleven films with director Ingmar Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death and as Martin in Through a Glass Darkly (1961).īeginning in 1965, von Sydow starred in Hollywood films his debut was as Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). Max von Sydow (1929–2020) was a Swedish-French actor, active in both European and American cinema. Von Sydow at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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