Bengt Ekerot
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-02-08 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Died
1971-11-26
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)
Most Known For
The Magician
as Johan Spegel
The Seventh Seal
as Death
Marianne
Sonja
as Bengt
Interlude
as German patient
När ungdomen vaknar
as Lennart
Here Is Your Life
as Byberg
We Home Toilers
as Linus Tallhagen
Who Saw Him Die?
as Eriksson
They Staked Their Lives
as Dick, freedom fighter
The Royal Rabble
The Nuthouse
as A student
Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas
Sceningång
as Johan Erikson
Hamlet
as Hamlet
Natt i hamn
as John
The Corridor
as Birger Olsson
Flames in the Dark
as Åke Kronström
Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson
Rosen på tistelön
as Anton Haraldsson