Served in Swedish Quartermaster Corps

Film acting debut in "Bara en Mora/Only a Mother"

Member of Norrkoping-Linkoping Stadsteater (municipal theater)

Joined Halsingborg Stadsteater (municipal theater)

Brought to Malmo Stadsteater by Ingmar Bergman; worked there until 1960

First film for director Ingmar Bergman, "The Seventh Seal"

Had title role in Bergman's "The Magician"

Worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm under Bergman

First US film, "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; played Jesus

Portrayed knuckle-cracking Nazi in "The Quiller Memorandum"

First film with director Jan Troell, "Har Har Du Ditt Liv/Here Is Your Life"

Made US TV debut as Otto Frank in an adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" (ABC)

First film with Liv Ullmann, Bergman's "Shame"

Acted in John Huston's "The Kremlin Letter"

Last film with Bergman as director, "The Touch"; Bergman's first English-language picture

Co-starred with Ullmann in Troell's two-part "The Emigrants" and "The New Land"

Appeared in the documentary film, "Ingmar Bergman"

Battled the Devil as Father Merrin in "The Exorcist"

Played Joubert, the professional killer of "Three Days of the Condor"

Reprised Father Merrin for "Exorcist II: The Heretic"

Broadway stage debut, "The Night of the Tribades"

Portrayed Ming the Merciless in "Flash Gordon"

Played benevolent Nazi in Huston's "Victory", starring Sylvester Stallone

Starred in Troell's "The Flight of the Eagle", about a foolhearty but heroic real-life balloon expedition to the North Pole

Appeared as the cat-caressing SPECTRE mastermind Blofeld in James Bond genre flick, "Never Say Never Again"

Delivered an excellent turn as Barbara Hershey's artist-lover in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Earned first and (to date) only Oscar nomination as Best Actor for Bille August's "Pelle the Conqueror", judged the year's Best Foreign Film by the Academy

Film directing and screenwriting debut with "Katinka"; shot by Bergman's cameraman Sven Nykvist

Returned to the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in February to play August Strindberg's "Master Olaf"

Starred as Father Siemes in NBC movie "Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes"

Acted in "The Ox", feature directing debut of long-time Bergman director of photography Sven Nykvist; film told the story of a poor 19th Century family's struggle for survival in the famine-ravaged Sweden that so many fled for America

Reteamed with August for "Best Intentions", scripted by Bergman

Made a devilish antique store owner in "Needful Things", a horror pic based on the Stephen King bestseller

Reteamed with Stallone as Judge Fargo in "Judge Dredd"

Portrayed The Vicar in August's "Jerusalem", the story of a group of poor, religious Swedes who emigrate to Palestine in the late 19th Century

Acted role of a priest-confessor in Liv Ullman's "Private Confessions"; scripted by Bergman; part of Bergman's autobiographical films that began with "Fanny and Alexander" and included "Best Intentions" and Daniel Bergman's "Sunday's Children" (1992); released in USA in 1999

Guided Robin Williams across the River Styx in "What Dreams May Come"

Provided voice of August Andrie in Troell's "Their Frozen Dreams", a documentary revisiting the failed balloon expedition of "The Flight of the Eagle"

Acted in Scott Hicks' "Snow Falling on Cedars", playing a defense attorney

Co-starred with Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller "Minority Report"

Played the mentor character, Eyvind in "Ring of the Nibelungs" (aired in the US in 2006 as "Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King") a fantasy mini-series based on the Germanic epic poem Nibelungenlied

Co-starred with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in "Rush Hour 3"