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.

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 ...

Max von Sydow broke through in film by playing chess with Death. He went on to play Jesus, the devil, the Exorcist, Ming the Merciless, the Three-Eyed Raven, and Lor San Tekka.

The imposing Swedish star played the title character in The Exorcist and more than 100 other roles. In his 20s, near the start of his career, von Sydow played chess with Death — and lost.

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 ...

In it, he plays a game of Chess against Death personified — it’s great. von Sydow would later be nominated for two Oscars, Best Actor for Pelle the Conqueror and Best Supporting Actor for ...

What remains remarkable about that fateful chess game is that though von Sydow was an unknown actor (he was just 27, in his first outing with Bergman), he seemed nearly as stylized as Death himself.

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.

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 ...

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 ...