Bengt Ekerot

Known for ActingBorn 1920-02-08Died 1971-11-26Stockholm, 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)Read more

Movies & web series

Hamlet

Barbacka

Det går an

Marianne

Three Sons

Natt i hamn

När ungdomen vaknar

Herre med portfölj

The Seventh Seal

Hanna in High Society

The Face of War

Dynamite

Det glada kalaset

Jazz Boy

Crime and Punishment

The Magician

Who Saw Him Die?

Sonja

Here Is Your Life

The D.T.'s

Måsen

The Corridor

Brita i grosshandlarhuset

Man glömmer ingenting

We Home Toilers

The Royal Rabble

Rosen på Tistelön

13 Chairs

They Staked Their Lives

Ola and Julia

The Talk of the Town

Flames in the Dark

Life's Just Great

Snapphanar

Sceningång

Interlude

The Nuthouse

On a Bench in a Park

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries