Lampert also remembered von Sydow relishing his various sessions working on the video game, adding his own flair and bringing professionalism-chops honed after decades working in entertainment-into the booth. This character actually goes somewhere, and he takes the player somewhere.” It wasn’t a typical old-man role that you might get offered when you’re of a certain age. “I got to ask him, ‘Why do this now, why a video game script?’ He said he just liked the text. He did the voice of Vigo in Ghostbusters II,” Lampert said. “He’s got a very, very long film history, from very, very serious dramatic movies with all sorts of directors, and then he’s in things like Strange Brew. Lampert discussed his time with von Sydow in the studio, saying he felt lucky to get the actor to read for this game. Von Sydow did some voice work for the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim-the process of which was documented in an interview with the game’s audio director and sound designer, Max Lampert. His voice also featured in the video game version of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens after he played Lor San Tekka in the film. In 1989, he voiced a part in Ghostbusters II that was later featured in the 2009 video game based on the movie. But it wasn’t until the ’80s when studio executives fully took notice of how von Sydow could contribute to filmic audio, and began casting him as a narrator in The Soldier’s Tale (in which he played the Devil), the German thriller Europa, and as the voice of Carl Jung in Wisdom of the Dream. He first lent his deep baritone to a Swedish television mini-series called I Havsbandet, in 1971, around the time that The Exorcist came out.
But behind the scenes, von Sydow quietly had an equally prolific career as a voice actor. Although he rarely played lead parts and spent his 71-year career largely as a working actor, von Sydow had an impact on Hollywood nonetheless, playing Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told and Lor San Tekka in the 2015 Star Wars film Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Max von Sydow-the Swedish actor known for playing Father Merrin in The Exorcist and the Three-Eyed Raven from Game of Thrones, as well as appearing in 11 Ingmar Bergman films-passed away on Sunday at 90 years old.
0 kommentar(er)
