Bengt Ekerot
Born: 1920-02-08
• Stockholm, 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)
Filmography
The Corridor
Who Saw Him Die?
Ola and Julia
Life's Just Great
Here Is Your Life
The D.T.'s
No Image
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
The Face of War
Det går an
On a Bench in a Park
The Magician
Jazz Boy
The Seventh Seal
Sceningång
Hamlet
Marianne
The Nuthouse
Dynamite
Interlude
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
13 Chairs
Crime and Punishment
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Rosen på tistelön
Three Sons
The Royal Rabble
Herre med portfölj
Sonja
När ungdomen vaknar
Natt i hamn
Man glömmer ingenting
We Home Toilers
Flames in the Dark
Snapphanar
The Talk of the Town
Hanna in High Society
They Staked Their Lives