Name an actor who's cooler than Max von Sydow

[Orrex]

You'll be wrong, but I'm curious to see who you come up with.

[kentauros]

1. Jürgen Prochnow

Das Boot
The Keep

[Orrex]

2. He was also good in The Seventh Sign, and IIRC he had a cameo in Air Force One

Nevertheless, Max has played Jesus, Satan, andStrange Brew.

Additionally, he's been in several of the best films of all time (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring) as well as several of the worst (Druids, Rush Hour 3).

That's what I call range!

[kentauros]

9. And a freelance CIA assassin in Three Days of the Condor

:D

Also, he is the inventor of the dream-recording device in Wim Wender's "Until the End of the World". He doesn't show up until about halfway through, though. Still, it's a brilliant "end of the world" movie.

[mikeytherat]

13. Frederick from "Hannah and her Sisters"

"It's been ages since I watched the television; you get to see the whole culture - a talk show, a beauty contest, a wrestling match. But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers: third-rate con men who tell the poor suckers who watch that they speak for 'Jeeeeeeeeeeezus' and always to send money - money, money, money! If Jesus Christ ever came back and saw what was going on his name, he'd never stop throwing up."

mikey_the_rat

[jobycom]

3. Sidney Poitier. Or does he have to be an old pale Scandinavian?

[Orrex]

4. Who is this Sidney Poitier of whom you speak?

Anyway, Max and Sidney should make like 500 movies together. I don't care if they're 162 years old. They could still kick everybody else's ass.

[Dr. Strange]

5. Mel Ferrer

Hell, even Miguel Ferrer.

[jobycom]

8. Fuck.

I actually came here to post Miquel Ferrer.

[enigmatic]

6. Lino Ventura

[EastTennesseeDem]

7. Dan Blocker

What the fuck did you just say?

[AllenVanAllen]

10. you've got a point

if a dude can make a red sequins outfit look menacing, you've got some major cool going on...

[GReedDiamond]

11. Timothy Carey and/or Sterling Hayden...

...and Rowdy Roddy Piper in "They Live."

OR, Victor Mature...

...and, like, uhmm, the entire cast (with the exception of the "normal" cast members) of Todd Browning's "Freaks"?

Alright, yer correct, I give up! MAX von fuckin' SYDOW it is!!

[Euromutt]

12. Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable
I have seen him on his bicycle
I have seen him buying vegetables
Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable

[Blue_Tires]

14. Michael Caine

thread over...thanks for playing

[Orrex]

15. Feh. I don't believe that Michael Caine has ever played a supernatural character

Unless you want to bring a Jim Belushi film into the discussion, for pity's sake!

[woo me with science]

16. Sean Connery

esp. a young Sean Connery

[peekaloo]

17. MERRIN!

just wanted to add that.

[cemaphonic]

18. Klaus Kinski, if we're talking the older European arthouse set

Sydow is pretty awesome though.