Love his work, he was in so many cool films. The article I saw listed a bunch of stuff, but didn't mention his role as Doctor Kynes in Dune (the de Laurentiis version) and my favorite as Ming the Merciless in the very iffy 80s film Flash Gordon.
That film was interesting in many ways, not least of which is much of the lead actor's lines were apparently dubbed. that guy had lots of issues, ended up leaving the film, etc. Just crazy.
But obviously de Laurentiis (sp) liked von Sydow. Had him in other things too, but he was great as Ming in a very campy film.
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