Bengt Ekerot
Acting
Biography
Nils Bengt Folke Ekerot was a Swedish actor and director. He had several important roles in Swedish films, but he became immortalized in 1957 when he starred in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, portraying Death as a white-faced man in a black cloak, an archetype that has influenced the representation of Death in countless instances in film and other media since then. All in all Bengt Ekerot appeared in 35 feature films and directed 7 from 1940 to 1968. "He was wrestled with the conditions of his hunger. He cried over his violent appetite. The demons destroyed his beauty." Erland Josephson on Bengt Ekerot in "The Role"(Book 1989)
Filmography 40
Movies (40)
The Corridor1968Birger Olsson
Who Saw Him Die?1968Eriksson
Ola and Julia1967Max
Life's Just Great1967The neighbour
Here Is Your Life1966Byberg
The D.T.'s1966Policeman/Social Worker/Guard- Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries1964
The Face of War1963Narrator (voice)- Det går an1963
On a Bench in a Park1960Sam Persson- Måsen1959Directing
The Magician1958Johan Spegel
Jazz Boy1958Erik Jonsson
The Seventh Seal1957Death
Sceningång1956Johan Erikson- Hamlet1955Hamlet
Marianne1953
The Nuthouse1951A student- Dynamite1947Allan Axelson
- Barbacka1946Directing
Det glada kalaset1946Directing
Interlude1946German patient
Brita i grosshandlarhuset1946"Paniken"
13 Chairs1945
Crime and Punishment1945Student
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It1945radio man (voice) (uncredited)
Rosen på Tistelön1945Anton Haraldsson
Three Sons1945Erik
The Royal Rabble1945
Herre med portfölj1943Stig