Bengt Ekerot
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 8, 1920
- Died
- November 26, 1971 (aged 51)
- Birthplace
- 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
Filmography
Who Saw Him Die?
Movie · as Eriksson
The Corridor
Movie · as Birger Olsson
Ola and Julia
Movie · as Max
Life's Just Great
Movie · as The neighbour
Here Is Your Life
Movie · as Byberg
The D.T.'s
Movie · as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
Movie
The Face of War
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Det går an
Movie
On a Bench in a Park
Movie · as Sam Persson
The Magician
Movie · as Johan Spegel
Jazz Boy
Movie · as Erik Jonsson
The Seventh Seal
Movie · as Death
Sceningång
Movie · as Johan Erikson
Hamlet
Movie · as Hamlet
Marianne
Movie
The Nuthouse
Movie · as A student
Dynamite
Movie · as Allan Axelson
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Movie · as "Paniken"
Interlude
Movie · as German patient
Crime and Punishment
Movie · as Student
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Movie · as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
Rosen på Tistelön
Movie · as Anton Haraldsson
The Royal Rabble
Movie
13 Chairs
Movie
Three Sons
Movie · as Erik
Sonja
Movie · as Bengt
Natt i hamn
Movie · as John
När ungdomen vaknar
Movie · as Lennart
Herre med portfölj
Movie · as Stig
Flames in the Dark
Movie · as Åke Kronström
Man glömmer ingenting
Movie · as Student at art school (uncredited)
We Home Toilers
Movie · as Linus Tallhagen
Snapphanar
Movie · as Lille-Jonas
The Talk of the Town
Movie · as Sven Törring
They Staked Their Lives
Movie · as Dick, freedom fighter
Hanna in High Society
Movie · as Fred Hummerberg