1929 - 2020
Max von Sydow (, Swedish: [fɔn ˈsy̌ːdɔv] ; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor. 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. Capable in roles ranging from stolid, contemplative protagonists to sardonic artists and menacing, often gleeful villains, von Sydow received numerous accolades including honors from the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max von Sydow has received more than 9,245,526 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia. Max von Sydow is the 124th most popular actor (down from 58th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 19th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Actor.
Max von Sydow is most famous for his role as Father Merrin in The Exorcist.
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Among actors, Max von Sydow ranks 124 out of 9,996. Before him are Tommy Lee Jones, Orson Welles, Ben Kingsley, Cameron Diaz, Spencer Tracy, and Stan Laurel. After him are Peter Falk, Ursula Andress, Rita Hayworth, Rutger Hauer, Burt Lancaster, and Tony Curtis.
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 118
1915 - 1985
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 119
1943 - Present
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 120
1972 - Present
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 121
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 122
1890 - 1965
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 123
1929 - 2020
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 124
1927 - 2011
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 125
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 126
1918 - 1987
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 127
1944 - 2019
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 128
1913 - 1994
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 129
1925 - 2010
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 130
Among people born in 1929, Max von Sydow ranks 15. Before him are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, Sergio Leone, Imre Kertész, Jacques Brel, and Hassan II of Morocco. After him are Jean Baudrillard, Yayoi Kusama, Frank Gehry, Hafizullah Amin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Christopher Plummer. Among people deceased in 2020, Max von Sydow ranks 9. Before him are Diego Maradona, Hosni Mubarak, Kirk Douglas, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Pierre Cardin, and Olivia de Havilland. After him are Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Katherine Johnson, Krzysztof Penderecki, John le Carré, and Ian Holm.
1929 - 1994
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 9
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 10
1929 - 1989
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 11
1929 - 2016
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 12
1929 - 1978
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 13
1929 - 1999
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 14
1929 - 2020
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 15
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 16
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 17
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 18
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 19
1929 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 20
1929 - 2021
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 21
1960 - 2020
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 3
1928 - 2020
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 4
1916 - 2020
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 5
1926 - 2020
HPI: 71.96
Rank: 6
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 7
1916 - 2020
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 8
1929 - 2020
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 9
1940 - 2020
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 10
1920 - 2020
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 11
1918 - 2020
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 12
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 13
1931 - 2020
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 14
1931 - 2020
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 15
Among people born in Sweden, Max von Sydow ranks 34 out of 1,612. Before him are Emanuel Swedenborg (1688), Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622), Dieterich Buxtehude (1637), John III of Sweden (1537), Charles IX of Sweden (1550), and Björn Ulvaeus (1945). After him are Ingrid of Sweden (1910), Charles XI of Sweden (1655), Charles XIII of Sweden (1748), Gustav III of Sweden (1746), Benny Andersson (1946), and Tomas Tranströmer (1931).
1688 - 1772
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 28
1622 - 1660
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 29
1637 - 1707
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 30
1537 - 1592
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 31
1550 - 1611
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 32
1945 - Present
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 33
1929 - 2020
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 34
1910 - 2000
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 35
1655 - 1697
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 36
1748 - 1818
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 37
1746 - 1792
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 38
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 39
1931 - 2015
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 40
Among actors born in Sweden, Max von Sydow ranks 3. Before him are Ingrid Bergman (1915) and Greta Garbo (1905). After him are Anita Ekberg (1931), Dolph Lundgren (1957), Stellan Skarsgård (1951), Bibi Andersson (1935), Peter Stormare (1953), Harriet Andersson (1932), Björn Andrésen (1955), Ingrid Thulin (1926), and Erland Josephson (1923).
1915 - 1982
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 1
1905 - 1990
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 2
1929 - 2020
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 3
1931 - 2015
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 4
1957 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 5
1951 - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 6
1935 - 2019
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 7
1953 - Present
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 8
1932 - Present
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 9
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 10
1926 - 2004
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 11
1923 - 2012
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 12