Max von Sydow - Milestones

• 1999: Acted in Scott Hicks' "Snow Falling on Cedars", playing a defense attorney
• 1998: Provided voice of August Andrie in Troell's "Their Frozen Dreams", a documentary revisiting the failed balloon expedition of "The Flight of the Eagle"
• 1998: Guided Robin Williams across the River Styx in "What Dreams May Come"
• 1997: Acted role of a priest-confessor in Liv Ullman's "Private Confessions"; scripted by Bergman; part of Bergman's autobiographical films that began with "Fanny and Alexander" and included "Best Intentions" and Daniel Bergman's "Sunday's Children" (1992); released in USA in 1999
• 1996: Portrayed The Vicar in August's "Jerusalem", the story of a group of poor, religious Swedes who emigrate to Palestine in the late 19th Century
• 1995: Reteamed with Stallone as Judge Fargo in "Judge Dredd"
• 1993: Made a devilish antique store owner in "Needful Things", a horror pic based on the Stephen King bestseller
• 1992: Acted in "The Ox", feature directing debut of long-time Bergman director of photography Sven Nykvist; film told the story of a poor 19th Century family's struggle for survival in the famine-ravaged Sweden that so many fled for America
• 1992: Reteamed with August for "Best Intentions", scripted by Bergman
• 1990: Starred as Father Siemes in NBC movie "Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes"
• 1988: Earned first and (to date) only Oscar nomination as Best Actor for Bille August's "Pelle the Conqueror", judged the year's Best Foreign Film by the Academy
• 1988: Returned to the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in February to play August Strindberg's "Master Olaf"
• 1988: Film directing and screenwriting debut with "Katinka"; shot by Bergman's cameraman Sven Nykvist
• 1986: Delivered an excellent turn as Barbara Hershey's artist-lover in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters"
• 1983: Appeared as the cat-caressing SPECTRE mastermind Blofeld in James Bond genre flick, "Never Say Never Again"
• 1982: Starred in Troell's "The Flight of the Eagle", about a foolhearty but heroic real-life balloon expedition to the North Pole
• 1981: Played benevolent Nazi in Huston's "Victory", starring Sylvester Stallone
• 1980: Portrayed Ming the Merciless in "Flash Gordon"
• 1977: Reprised Father Merrin for "Exorcist II: The Heretic"
• 1977: Broadway stage debut, "The Night of the Tribades"
• 1975: Played Joubert, the professional killer of "Three Days of the Condor"
• 1973: Battled the Devil as Father Merrin in "The Exorcist"
• 1972: Appeared in the documentary film, "Ingmar Bergman"
• 1971: Last film with Bergman as director, "The Touch"; Bergman's first English-language picture
• 1970: Acted in John Huston's "The Kremlin Letter"
• 1968: First film with Liv Ullmann, Bergman's "Shame"
• 1967: Made US TV debut as Otto Frank in an adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" (ABC)
• 1966: Portrayed knuckle-cracking Nazi in "The Quiller Memorandum"
• 1966: First film with director Jan Troell, "Har Har Du Ditt Liv/Here Is Your Life"
• 1965: First US film, "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; played Jesus
• 1958: Had title role in Bergman's "The Magician"
• 1956: First film for director Ingmar Bergman, "The Seventh Seal"
• 1955: Brought to Malmo Stadsteater by Ingmar Bergman; worked there until 1960
• 1949: Film acting debut in "Bara en Mora/Only a Mother"
• From 1947 to 1948: Served in Swedish Quartermaster Corps
• Member of Norrkoping-Linkoping Stadsteater (municipal theater)
• Joined Halsingborg Stadsteater (municipal theater)
• Worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm under Bergman
• Co-starred with Ullmann in Troell's two-part "The Emigrants" and "The New Land"