Bengt Ekerot
Known for: Acting
Born: February 7, 1920 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden - Died: November 25, 1971
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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The Seventh Seal
Death
Here Is Your Life
Byberg
The Magician
Johan Spegel
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
"Paniken"
Flames in the Dark
Åke Kronström
Who Saw Him Die?
Eriksson
Crime and Punishment
Student
Sceningång
Johan Erikson
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
radio man (voice) (uncredited)
Interlude
German patient
On a Bench in a Park
Sam Persson
Rosen på tistelön
Anton Haraldsson
The Royal Rabble
Jazz Boy
Erik Jonsson
The Face of War
Narrator (voice)
Man glömmer ingenting
Student at art school (uncredited)
We Home Toilers
Linus Tallhagen
Hamlet
Hamlet
Det går an
Sonja
Bengt
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
Ola and Julia
Max
Natt i hamn
John
The Talk of the Town
Sven Törring