Arts Mar 09 Max von Sydow, ‘Exorcist’ actor and Bergman film collaborator, dies at age 90 Max von Sydow, the self-described “shy boy”-turned-actor who played the priest in the horror classic “The Exorcist,” has died. He was 90. He was known to art house audiences through his work with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. By Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press