Acting
Bengt Ekerot
SV, EN cinema · 40 credits
Born
8 February 1920
Died
26 November 1971 (aged 51)
Birthplace
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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
Filmography
Who Saw Him Die?
as Eriksson
The Corridor
as Birger Olsson
Life's Just Great
as The neighbour
Here Is Your Life
as Byberg
The D.T.'s
as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
The Face of War
as Narrator (voice)
On a Bench in a Park
as Sam Persson
Måsen
1959
Måsen
Director
The Magician
as Johan Spegel
Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson
The Seventh Seal
as Death
Sceningång
as Johan Erikson, Director
Hamlet
1955
Hamlet
as Hamlet
Marianne
Actor
The Nuthouse
as A student
Dynamit
1947
Dynamite
as Allan Axelson
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
as "Paniken"
Interlude
as German patient
Det glada kalaset
Director
Crime and Punishment
as Student
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
as radio man (voice) (uncredited), Assistant Director
Rosen på Tistelön
as Anton Haraldsson
Three Sons
as Erik
Sonja
as Bengt
Natt i hamn
as John
När ungdomen vaknar
as Lennart
Flames in the Dark
as Åke Kronström
Man glömmer ingenting
as Student at art school (uncredited)
We Home Toilers
as Linus Tallhagen
Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas
The Talk of the Town
as Sven Törring
They Staked Their Lives
as Dick, freedom fighter
Hanna in High Society
as Fred Hummerberg