RIP Max Von Sydow

[unassuming]

Long time actor of movies and TV, Max Von Sydow has passed , he was 90

 

[james t kirk]

He was working right up till the end. Never slowed down.

Admirable

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Seemed like a real gent. Seemed to be ageless.True lifetime journeyman actor.

 

[The Oracle]

He first came to my attention in The Exorcist.

He had a magnificent screen presence and vocal deliverance.

Just a long and distinguished career.

 

[Insidious Von]

Currently Ben Mendelshon is the new Max Von Sydow, an actor who makes everything he's in better. RIP, King of the Swedes.

The King is dead, all hail the King. He's peaking now with Darkest Hour and Stephen King's latest Gothic horror The Outsider.

 

[Conil]

 

[Don Draper]

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One of the great monologues in film.​

 

[Robert Mugabe]

[SIZE=+2]Royalty. Titan. Colossus. [/SIZE]

One of the great monologues in film.​

Agreed. I remember it well. I have used those same words of warning to people over the years.

 

[The Oracle]

Currently Ben Mendelshon is the new Max Von Sydow, an actor who makes everything he's in better. RIP, King of the Swedes.

The King is dead, all hail the King. He's peaking now with Darkest Hour and Stephen King's latest Gothic horror The Outsider.

I'm curious to know what your opinion of The Outsider is.

To me in fell short of my expectations.

 

[legmann]

He first came to my attention in The Exorcist.

He had a magnificent screen presence and vocal deliverance.

Excellent film and performance.

 

[danmand]

He was a big star in Scandinavia before he became famous in Hollywood.

He was in "the Emmigrants" and he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in "Pelle the Conqueror"

 

[Uncharted]

Nothing listed in this thread will top his greatest acting achievement.

Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon.

That was acting Gold right there.

 

[Insidious Von]

I'm curious to know what your opinion of The Outsider is. To me in fell short of my expectations.

I found it to be a tauter horror thriller than Castle Rock. The later had too much religious allegory for my taste, the mood was too grim and oppressive - I lost interest.

I may have passed on this if Mendloshon and Paddy Consodine weren't in it. I have to give props to Mark Menchaca, Jack Hoskins was such an asshole that no one noticed when the shape-shifter turned him into an acolyte. The scene where he's ambushed by the apparition of his evil mother is one of the scariest ever in a series. I can see where it fell short of expectations, the ending was telegraphed - nothing wrong with anything that went on before.

Ben Mendelshon is in charge!

 

[Insidious Von]

Max Von Sydow made a dozen Scandinavian films, over half with Ingmar Bergman, before moving to Hollywood with his greatest role.