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