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 ...

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 ...

Actor Max von Sydow, whose career stretched across seven decades, died Sunday at the age of 90. ... The knight tries to delay the inevitable by challenging Death to a game of chess.

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.

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It was Max Von Sydow, whose career spanned the great Ingmar Bergman’s black and white films from Sweden in the 1950s, through his starring role in “The Exorcist”, right up to the most recent ...

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 ...

Oscar-nominated actor Max von Sydow has died at the age of 90. ... plays chess with Death. Von Sydow, who was the first choice to play the title role in first ever Bond film Dr No, ...

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 ...

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 ...