Bengt Ekerot
Acting
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)
Media of
Bengt Ekerot
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Filmography of
Bengt Ekerot
Birger Olsson
... 1968
Eriksson
... 1968
Max
... 1967
The neighbour
... 1967
Byberg
... 1966
Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
... 1966
Narrator (voice)
... 1963
... 1963
Sam Persson
... 1960
Johan Spegel
... 1958
Erik Jonsson
... 1958
Death
... 1957
Johan Erikson
... 1956
Hamlet
... 1955
... 1953
A student
... 1951
Allan Axelson
... 1947
German patient
... 1946
"Paniken"
... 1946
... 1945
Student
... 1945
radio man (voice) (uncredited)
... 1945
Anton Haraldsson
... 1945
Erik
... 1945
... 1945
Stig
... 1943
Bengt
... 1943
Lennart
... 1943
John
... 1943
Student at art school (uncredited)
... 1942
Linus Tallhagen
... 1942
Åke Kronström
... 1942
Lille-Jonas
... 1941
Sven Törring
... 1941
... 1940
Dick, freedom fighter
... 1940