Bengt Ekerot
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-02-08
Day of Death
1971-11-26 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Bengt Ekerot
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
Acting
(1968)
Who Saw Him Die?
as Eriksson
(1968)
The Corridor
as Birger Olsson
(1967)
Ola and Julia
as Max
(1967)
Life's Just Great
as The neighbour
(1966)
Here Is Your Life
as Byberg
(1966)
The D.T.'s
as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
(1964)
(1963)
The Face of War
as Narrator (voice)
(1963)
(1960)
On a Bench in a Park
as Sam Persson
(1958)
The Magician
as Johan Spegel
(1958)
Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson
(1957)
The Seventh Seal
as Death
(1956)
Sceningång
as Johan Erikson
(1955)
Hamlet
as Hamlet
(1953)
(1951)
The Nuthouse
as A student
(1947)
Dynamite
as Allan Axelson
(1946)
Interlude
as German patient
(1946)
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
as "Paniken"
(1945)
Crime and Punishment
as Student
(1945)
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
(1945)
Three Sons
as Erik
(1945)
(1945)
(1945)
Rosen på tistelön
as Anton Haraldsson
(1943)
Natt i hamn
as John
(1943)
Sonja
as Bengt
(1943)
Herre med portfölj
as Stig
(1943)
När ungdomen vaknar
as Lennart
(1942)
Flames in the Dark
as Åke Kronström
(1942)
Man glömmer ingenting
as Student at art school (uncredited)
(1942)
We Home Toilers
as Linus Tallhagen
(1941)
The Talk of the Town
as Sven Törring
(1941)
Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas
(1940)
(1940)
They Staked Their Lives
as Freedom fighter
Crew
(1959)
Måsen
Director
(1956)
Sceningång
Director
(1946)
Barbacka
Director
(1946)
Det glada kalaset
Director
(1945)
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Assistant Director