Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow ( von SEE-doh; born Carl Adolf von Sydow on 10 April 1929) is an actor who has appeared in European and American films. Von Sydow received the Royal Foundation of Sweden's Cultural Award in 1954, was made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, and was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur on 17 October 2012. Originally from Sweden, von Sydow is a French citizen. Von Sydow has appeared in more than 100 films and TV series. Some of his most memorable film roles include Knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957), the first of his 11 films with Bergman which includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death, and Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). In 2016, he joined the cast of HBO's Game of Thrones as Three-eyed Raven, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.