Actor max von sydow biography
Max von Sydow. Actor: Flash Gordon. Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.