The Max von Sydow article needs a good quote in the header explaining his reputation and/or importance to cinema. Here are some candidates.

• [1]: Roger Ebert wrote in his review of The Exorcist (1973): "And the casting of Max von Sydow as the older Jesuit exorcist was inevitable; he has been through so many religious and metaphysical crises in Bergman's films that he almost seems to belong on a theological battlefield the way John Wayne belonged on a horse. There's a striking image early in the film that has the craggy von Sydow facing an ancient, evil statue; the image doesn't so much borrow from Bergman's famous chess game between von Sydow and Death (in "The Seventh Seal") as extend the conflict and raise the odds."

• Ebert wrote in 1993 about "Needful Things": "One day a new store, "Needful Things," opens up. Its proprietor is played by Max von Sydow, always an ominous sign that preternatural evil may be afoot."

• Ebert wrote in 1992: "(official cinematic icons Max von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau)"