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)
Known for
1968Who Saw Him Die?
Eriksson
1968The Corridor
Birger Olsson
1967Ola and Julia
Max
1967Life's Just Great
The neighbour
1966Here Is Your Life
Byberg
1966The D.T.'s
Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
1963The Face of War
Narrator (voice)
1963Det gÄr an
1960On a Bench in a Park
Sam Persson
1958The Magician
Johan Spegel
1958Jazz Boy
Erik Jonsson
1957The Seventh Seal
Death
1956SceningÄng
Johan Erikson
1955Hamlet
Hamlet
1953Marianne
1951The Nuthouse
A student
1947Dynamite
Allan Axelson
1946Brita i grosshandlarhuset
"Paniken"
1946Interlude
German patient
1945Crime and Punishment
Student
1945Put Our MĂ€rta First or As Luck Will Have It
radio man (voice) (uncredited)
1945Rosen pÄ Tistelön
Anton Haraldsson
1945The Royal Rabble
194513 Chairs
