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

The Seventh Seal

The Magician

Here Is Your Life

Who Saw Him Die?

Sceningång

Jazz Boy

The Corridor

Flames in the Dark

All Movies (37)

• The Corridor1968 · as Birger Olsson
• Who Saw Him Die?1968 · as Eriksson
• Ola and Julia1967 · as Max
• Life's Just Great1967 · as The neighbour
• Here Is Your Life1966 · as Byberg
• The D.T.'s1966 · as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
• Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries1964
• The Face of War1963 · as Narrator (voice)
• Det går an1963
• On a Bench in a Park1960 · as Sam Persson
• The Magician1958 · as Johan Spegel
• Jazz Boy1958 · as Erik Jonsson
• The Seventh Seal1957 · as Death
• Sceningång1956 · as Johan Erikson
• Hamlet1955 · as Hamlet
• Marianne1953
• The Nuthouse1951 · as A student
• Dynamite1947 · as Allan Axelson
• Interlude1946 · as German patient
• Brita i grosshandlarhuset1946 · as "Paniken"
• 13 Chairs1945
• Crime and Punishment1945 · as Student
• Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It1945 · as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
• Rosen på Tistelön1945 · as Anton Haraldsson
• Three Sons1945 · as Erik
• The Royal Rabble1945
• Herre med portfölj1943 · as Stig
• Sonja1943 · as Bengt
• När ungdomen vaknar1943 · as Lennart
• Natt i hamn1943 · as John
• Man glömmer ingenting1942 · as Student at art school (uncredited)
• We Home Toilers1942 · as Linus Tallhagen
• Flames in the Dark1942 · as Åke Kronström
• Snapphanar1941 · as Lille-Jonas
• The Talk of the Town1941 · as Sven Törring
• Hanna in High Society1940 · as Fred Hummerberg
• They Staked Their Lives1940 · as Dick, freedom fighter