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Max von Sydow obituary: Swedish star whose filmography sets him among the immortals | Sight & Sound


Credit: BFI National Archive
Appropriately, the first indelible impression that Max von Sydow made on world cinema saw him surrounded by jagged rocks while staring death in the face. Only in his late 20s when he starred in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1956), he already gave the impression of a man who’d witnessed a lifetime of anguish, to the point that when actually confronted by Death (Bengt Ekerot), his gaunt, Crusades-weary knight Antonius Blok reacts with a disarmingly calm “Are you coming for me?” before challenging the white-faced spectre to a game of chess.
Death finally claimed von Sydow on 8 March 2020, but only after he amassed a filmography that set him among the immortals. This would be true even if he’d never worked outside his native Sweden; indeed, even if he’d exclusively worked with Bergman we’d still have his mesmerist Albert Vogler in The Face (1958); distraught fathers dealing with different types of bereavement in Vir ....

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Obituary: George Segal, actor with twinkly-eyed dryness who starred opposite Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand


Died: March 23, 2021.
GEORGE Segal, who has died aged 87, was an actor who rode a wave of grown-up comedies during the 1970s, when Hollywood was exploring some of the new freedoms that had opened up the decade before.
Segal evoked the amorous ambitions of assorted hapless roués at odds with their lot. He did this with an understated twinkly-eyed dryness as he sparred gently with a role-call of actresses who similarly defined their era.
He starred with Barbra Streisand in The Owl and the Pussycat (1970); played a suburban bank robber alongside Jane Fonda in Fun with Dick and Jane (1977); and – magnificently – played opposite Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class (1973). Out of this came a kind of post me-generation focus on romantic shenanigans that took screwball comedy into more intimate areas. ....

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