![]() ![]() Rafferty wrote, “he has been the greatest actor alive.” “For a significant portion of his six decades onscreen,” Mr. ![]() He was also treated to a fresh round of recognition. von Sydow submerged himself in the tangled personality of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun, whose age and ego led him to become a tool of the Nazis during World War II.īy his late 80s, cast in the brief role of the village elder Lor San Tekka in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and as the enigmatic seer Three Eyed Raven in Season Six of “Game of Thrones,” he was having, as the critic Terrence Rafferty wrote in The Atlantic in 2015, “the sort of late career that eminent movie actors tend to have, popping up for a scene or two in commercial stuff that needs a touch of gravity, and receiving, as famous old actors do, the honor of ‘last billing.’” There were other late-career high points, including “Hamsun” (1997), in which Mr. ![]()
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