Bengt Ekerot
Acting • Born 1920-02-08 – Died 1971-11-26
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
37 credits
The Seventh Seal
Movie • 1957
Death
Here Is Your Life
Movie • 1966
Byberg
The Magician
Movie • 1958
Johan Spegel
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Movie • 1946
"Paniken"
Flames in the Dark
Movie • 1942
Åke Kronström
Who Saw Him Die?
Movie • 1968
Eriksson
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 1945
Student
Sceningång
Movie • 1956
Johan Erikson
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Movie • 1945
radio man (voice) (uncredited)
Interlude
Movie • 1946
German patient
On a Bench in a Park
Movie • 1960
Sam Persson
Rosen på tistelön
Movie • 1945
Anton Haraldsson
The Royal Rabble
Movie • 1945
Jazz Boy
Movie • 1958
Erik Jonsson
Snapphanar
Movie • 1941
Lille-Jonas
The Face of War
Movie • 1963
Narrator (voice)
Man glömmer ingenting
Movie • 1942
Student at art school (uncredited)
We Home Toilers
Movie • 1942
Linus Tallhagen
Hamlet
Movie • 1955
Hamlet
Det går an
Movie • 1963
Sonja
Movie • 1943
Bengt
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
Movie • 1964
Ola and Julia
Movie • 1967
Max
Natt i hamn
Movie • 1943
John
The Talk of the Town
Movie • 1941
Sven Törring
They Staked Their Lives
Movie • 1940
Dick, freedom fighter
13 Chairs
Movie • 1945
Life's Just Great
Movie • 1967
The neighbour
The Corridor
Movie • 1968
Birger Olsson
När ungdomen vaknar
Movie • 1943
Lennart
The Nuthouse
Movie • 1951
A student
The D.T.'s
Movie • 1966
Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Three Sons
Movie • 1945
Erik
Hanna in High Society
Movie • 1940
Fred Hummerberg
Herre med portfölj
Movie • 1943
Stig
Marianne
Movie • 1953
Dynamite
Movie • 1947
Allan Axelson