Max von Sydow's professional partners and personal admirers are paying tribute to the late actor. Following the two-time Oscar-nominated performer's death Sunday at age 90, collaborators from ...

Max von Sydow, who starred in brooding, metaphysical masterpieces by Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, notably as the medieval knight stalked by Death in a game of chess, and who later brought ...

In his 20s, near the start of his career, von Sydow played chess with Death — and lost. Director Ingmar Bergman had cast the then-unknown actor as a medieval knight in The Seventh Seal (1957 ...

Max von Sydow, the Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and battling a demon in The Exorcist, died Sunday. He was 90.

It also provided one of the most endearing screen images of his chess match with death. In that one scene, von Sydow and Bergman, not only tamed complexity but transcended it.

On March 8, Max von Sydow (1929-2020) lost his chess match with death.The Swedish actor, who made his name starring in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), died in France at 90. He was ...

Max von Sydow, the self-described “shy boy”-turned-actor known to art house audiences through his work with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman – and ­later to moviegoers everywhere when he ...

In his 20s, near the start of his career, von Sydow played chess with Death — and lost. Director Ingmar Bergman had cast the then-unknown actor as a medieval knight in The Seventh Seal (1957 ...

Max von Sydow, a Swedish-born actor who portrayed a knight playing chess against Death in one of his many roles for Ingmar Bergman, has passed away in France at the age of 90, his wife announced ...

Max von Sydow death: The Exorcist and Star Wars actor dies aged 90 Actor also appeared in The Seventh Seal, Flash Gordon and HBO series Game of Thrones Jacob Stolworthy Monday 09 March 2020 12:57 GMT ...

Max von Sydow plays chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot) in 'The Seventh Seal.' Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images Von Sydow would perform in ten more movies for Bergman, including The ...

The Aero is screening the seminal 1957 Bergman film “The Seventh Seal,” in which Von Sydow stars as a medieval knight playing chess with Death, as well as his latest film, “Extremely Loud ...