- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 8, 1920
- Place of Birth
- Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
- Died
- November 26, 1971
Bengt Ekerot
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
movieThe Corridor
1968 · Birger Olsson
movieWho Saw Him Die?
1968 · Eriksson
movieOla and Julia
1967 · Max
movieLife's Just Great
1967 · The neighbour
movieHere Is Your Life
1966 · Byberg
movieThe D.T.'s
1966 · Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
moviePortrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964
movieThe Face of War
1963 · Narrator (voice)
Det går an
movieDet går an
1963
movieOn a Bench in a Park
1960 · Sam Persson
Måsen
movieMåsen
1959 · Director
movieThe Magician
1958 · Johan Spegel
movieJazz Boy
1958 · Erik Jonsson
movieThe Seventh Seal
1957 · Death
movieSceningång
1956 · Johan Erikson, Director
Hamlet
movieHamlet
1955 · Hamlet
movieMarianne
1953
movieThe Nuthouse
1951 · A student
Dynamite
movieDynamite
1947 · Allan Axelson
Barbacka
movieBarbacka
1946 · Director
movieDet glada kalaset
1946 · Director
movieInterlude
1946 · German patient
movieBrita i grosshandlarhuset
1946 · "Paniken"
movie13 Chairs
1945
movieCrime and Punishment
1945 · Student
moviePut Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945 · radio man (voice) (uncredited), Assistant Director
movieRosen på Tistelön
1945 · Anton Haraldsson
movieThree Sons
1945 · Erik
movieThe Royal Rabble
1945
movieHerre med portfölj
1943 · Stig
movieSonja
1943 · Bengt
movieNär ungdomen vaknar
1943 · Lennart
movieNatt i hamn
1943 · John
movieMan glömmer ingenting
1942 · Student at art school (uncredited)
movieWe Home Toilers
1942 · Linus Tallhagen
movieFlames in the Dark
1942 · Åke Kronström
movieSnapphanar
1941 · Lille-Jonas
movieThe Talk of the Town
1941 · Sven Törring
movieHanna in High Society
1940 · Fred Hummerberg
movieThey Staked Their Lives
1940 · Dick, freedom fighter