Editing Max von Sydow (section)

===1970s–1980s===
In 1971, Sydow starred in ''[[The Touch (1971 film)|The Touch]]'', Bergman's first English-language film, playing a doctor whose wife is having an affair.<ref name=GuardianObit/> In 1973, Sydow appeared in one of his most commercially successful films, [[William Friedkin]]'s ''[[The Exorcist]]'' (1973).<ref name=NYTObit/> He played Father [[Lankester Merrin]], the film's titular Jesuit priest, which earned him his second Golden Globe nomination.<ref name=LATimesObit/> He reprised the role in the film's sequel, ''[[Exorcist II: The Heretic]]'' (1977).<ref name=TelegraphObit/> In 1977, Sydow made his Broadway debut alongside [[Eileen Atkins]] and Bibi Andersson in [[Per Olov Enquist]]'s ''The Night of the Tribades'', a play about the writer [[August Strindberg]]. In 1981, he starred with [[Anne Bancroft]] in the [[Tom Kempinski]] play ''[[Duet for One]]'' about the cellist [[Jacqueline du Pré]].<ref name=NYTObit/> Sydow made his British stage debut at [[The Old Vic]] in 1988 as Prospero in ''The Tempest'', a role he had first played in Sweden three decades before.<ref name=EbertObit/><ref>{{cite web |last=Wolf |first=Matt |date=28 May 1988 |title=Swedish Actor Von Sydow Turns to London Stage |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-28-ca-3510-story.html | newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref>

In the 1980s, in addition to ''Flash Gordon'' and ''Never Say Never Again'', Sydow appeared in [[John Milius]]'s ''[[Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)|Conan the Barbarian]]'' (1982), [[Jan Troell]]'s ''[[Flight of the Eagle]]'' (1982), [[Rick Moranis]]'s & [[Dave Thomas (actor)|Dave Thomas]]'s ''[[Strange Brew]]'' (1983), [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]'' (1984) and [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Hannah and Her Sisters]]'' (1986).<ref name=LATimesObit/><ref name=NYTObit/><ref name=GuardianObit/> In 1985, Sydow was a member of the jury at the [[35th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale 1985">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1985/04_jury_1985/04_Jury_1985.html |title=Berlinale: Juries |access-date=8 January 2011 |publisher=[[Berlin International Film Festival]]}}</ref> In the 1987 [[Bille August]] film ''[[Pelle the Conqueror]]'', Sydow portrayed an impoverished Swedish labourer who brought his son to Denmark to try to build a better life for themselves.<ref name=NYTObit/> The role won him international acclaim and is often considered one of the best roles in his career. For his performance, Sydow received a [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] nomination at the [[61st Academy Awards]]; the film won [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] as Denmark's official Oscar entry.<ref name=LATimesObit/> 
[[File:Max von Sydow & Lars Jacob 1992.jpg|thumb|Von Sydow with a writer in the employees' lobby of the [[Royal Dramatic Theatre]] in 1992]]
In 1988, Sydow made his only directorial foray with ''[[Katinka (film)|Katinka]]'', a film based on the [[Herman Bang]] novel, ''[[Ved Vejen]]''.<ref name=TelegraphObit/> The film won the [[Guldbagge Awards]] for Best Film and Best Director but was not widely seen outside Sweden.<ref name=FTObit>{{cite news |last=Andrew |first= Nigel |date=9 March 2020 |title=Max von Sydow, actor, 1929-2020 |url=https://www.ft.com/content/cb131bca-6224-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/cb131bca-6224-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription | newspaper=[[Financial Times]] |access-date=9 March 2020 }}</ref> In 1989, Sydow appeared in the television film ''[[Red King, White Knight]]'', for which he received his first [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nomination. He also supplied the voice for Vigo the Carpathian in the 1989 film, ''[[Ghostbusters II]]''.<ref name=LATimesObit/>