He made his directing debut with an adaptation of Herman Bang's novel, By the Roadside, but decided to stick to acting, playing ex-Nazi Joe Mueller the next year in the Australian film, Father.
He made his directing debut with an adaptation of Herman Bang's novel, By the Roadside, but decided to stick to acting, playing ex-Nazi Joe Mueller the next year in the Australian film, Father. It was not until he played Lassefar in 1987's Pelle the Conqueror that he won his country's Guldbagge Award for acting, but he did have a legacy there that began nearly four decades ago with his early roles in Only a Mother and a production of Miss Julie. Though he turned down the title role for Dr. No, only to be cast in a later Bond film as Blofeld, he was persuaded to move to Hollywood to play Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told and would go on to star as Father Merrin in The Exorcist. FTP, name this Swedish actor who often worked under Ingmar Bergman and starred as the knight in The Seventh Seal.
He made his directing debut with an adaptation of Herman Bang's novel, By the Roadside, but decided to stick to acting, playing ex-Nazi Joe Mueller the next year in the Australian film, Father.
Max {von Sydow}