Bacon Number: The
Oracle says: Max von Sydow has a
Bacon number of 2:
- Max von Sydow was in Judge Dredd (1995) with Diane Lane,
- Diane Lane was in My Dog Skip (2000) with Kevin Bacon.
Max von Sydow is one of those few actors who can make an OK film great, and a bad film OK. Notable credits include:
His complete filmography runs to 129 films over fifty years as both
actor and
director, a large number of which are in German or Swedish.
He was born to a middle class family in
Lund, and showed an interest in acting at school. After leaving the army after the
Second World War he studied at the
Royal Dramatic Theatre, and after graduating became a jobbing theatre actor.
He came to international attention after starring in a number of
Ingmar Bergman movies, but will probably be most famous for portraying
Father Merrin in
The Exorcist.