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)
Filmography
The Corridor
1968
as Birger Olsson
Who Saw Him Die?
1968
as Eriksson
Ola and Julia
1967
as Max
Life's Just Great
1967
as The neighbour
Here Is Your Life
1966
as Byberg
The D.T.'s
1966
as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
- No poster
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964
The Face of War
1963
as Narrator (voice)
Det går an
1963
On a Bench in a Park
1960
as Sam Persson
The Magician
1958
as Johan Spegel
Jazz Boy
1958
as Erik Jonsson
The Seventh Seal
1957
as Death
Sceningång
1956
as Johan Erikson
- No poster
Hamlet
1955
as Hamlet
Marianne
1953
The Nuthouse
1951
as A student
- No poster
Dynamite
1947
as Allan Axelson
Interlude
1946
as German patient
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
1946
as "Paniken"
13 Chairs
1945
Crime and Punishment
1945
as Student
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
Rosen på Tistelön
1945
as Anton Haraldsson