Name
Bengt Ekerot
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1920-02-08
Deathday
1971-11-26 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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)
Known For
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When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find hi...
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A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act...
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A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jo...
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Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown childr...
- 1957 The Seventh Seal as Death
- 1966 Here Is Your Life as Byberg
- 1958 The Magician as Johan Spegel
- 1946 Brita i grosshandlarhuset as "Paniken"
- 1942 Flames in the Dark as Åke Kronström
- 1968 Who Saw Him Die? as Eriksson
- 1945 Crime and Punishment as Student
- 1956 Sceningång as Johan Erikson
- 1945 Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946 Interlude as German patient
- 1960 On a Bench in a Park as Sam Persson
- 1945 Rosen på Tistelön as Anton Haraldsson
- 1945 The Royal Rabble
- 1958 Jazz Boy as Erik Jonsson
- 1941 Snapphanar as Lille-Jonas
- 1963 The Face of War as Narrator (voice)
- 1942 Man glömmer ingenting as Student at art school (uncredited)
- 1942 We Home Toilers as Linus Tallhagen
- 1955 Hamlet as Hamlet
- 1963 Det går an
- 1943 Sonja as Bengt
- 1964 Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
- 1967 Ola and Julia as Max
- 1943 Natt i hamn as John
- 1941 The Talk of the Town as Sven Törring
- 1940 They Staked Their Lives as Dick, freedom fighter
- 1945 13 Chairs
- 1967 Life's Just Great as The neighbour
- 1968 The Corridor as Birger Olsson
- 1943 När ungdomen vaknar as Lennart
- 1951 The Nuthouse as A student
- 1966 The D.T.'s as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
- 1945 Three Sons as Erik
- 1940 Hanna in High Society as Fred Hummerberg
- 1943 Herre med portfölj as Stig
- 1953 Marianne
- 1947 Dynamite as Allan Axelson
