Bengt Ekerot
Birthday
1920/02/08
Day of death
1971/11/26 (51 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Also know as
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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 ...Read more
Acting
(1957) The Seventh Seal
as Death
(1966) Here Is Your Life
as Byberg
(1958) The Magician
as Johan Spegel
(1946) Brita i grosshandlarhuset
as "Paniken"
(1942) Flames in the Dark
as Åke Kronström
(1968) Who Saw Him Die?
as Eriksson
(1945) Crime and Punishment
as Student
(1956) Sceningång
as Johan Erikson
(1945) Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
(1946) Interlude
as German patient
(1960) On a Bench in a Park
as Sam Persson
(1945) Rosen på tistelön
as Anton Haraldsson
(1945) The Royal Rabble
as ---
(1958) Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson
(1941) Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas
(1963) The Face of War
as Narrator (voice)
(1942) Man glömmer ingenting
as Student at art school (uncredited)
(1942) We Home Toilers
as Linus Tallhagen
(1955) Hamlet
as Hamlet
(1963) Det går an
as ---
(1943) Sonja
as Bengt
(1964) Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
as ---
(1967) Ola and Julia
as Max
(1943) Natt i hamn
as John
(1941) The Talk of the Town
as Sven Törring
(1940) They Staked Their Lives
as Freedom fighter
(1945) 13 Chairs
as ---
(1968) The Corridor
as Birger Olsson
(1967) Life's Just Great
as The neighbour
(1943) När ungdomen vaknar
as Lennart
(1951) The Nuthouse
as A student
(1966) The D.T.'s
as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
(1945) Three Sons
as Erik
(1940) Hanna in High Society
as ---
(1943) Herre med portfölj
as Stig
(1953) Marianne
as ---
(1947) Dynamite
as Allan Axelson