Bengt Ekerot
Known for Acting · 37 credits
- Born
- 1920-02-08
- Died
- 1971-11-26
- Place of birth
- Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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)
Known For
Movies (37)
The Seventh Seal
1957
as Death
The Magician
1958
as Johan Spegel
Ola and Julia
1967
as Max
Here Is Your Life
1966
as Byberg
13 Chairs
1945
Crime and Punishment
1945
as Student
Snapphanar
1941
as Lille-Jonas
The Corridor
1968
as Birger Olsson
Natt i hamn
1943
as John
On a Bench in a Park
1960
as Sam Persson
Sceningång
1956
as Johan Erikson
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964
Hanna in High Society
1940
as Fred Hummerberg
Who Saw Him Die?
1968
as Eriksson
Man glömmer ingenting
1942
as Student at art school (uncredited)
The Nuthouse
1951
as A student
Interlude
1946
as German patient
Life's Just Great
1967
as The neighbour
Jazz Boy
1958
as Erik Jonsson
Hamlet
1955
as Hamlet
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
Flames in the Dark
1942
as Åke Kronström
The Talk of the Town
1941
as Sven Törring
The Royal Rabble
1945
The D.T.'s
1966
as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Dynamite
1947
as Allan Axelson
Det går an
1963
We Home Toilers
1942
as Linus Tallhagen
Marianne
1953
Sonja
1943
as Bengt
Herre med portfölj
1943
as Stig
Rosen på Tistelön
1945
as Anton Haraldsson
They Staked Their Lives
1940
as Dick, freedom fighter
Three Sons
1945
as Erik
När ungdomen vaknar
1943
as Lennart
The Face of War
1963
as Narrator (voice)
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
1946
as "Paniken"
About Bengt Ekerot
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. Th… With 37 credits spanning from 1940 to 1968, Bengt Ekerot has appeared in 37 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Bengt Ekerot Movies
- The Seventh Seal (1957) — as Death
- The Magician (1958) — as Johan Spegel
- Ola and Julia (1967) — as Max
- Here Is Your Life (1966) — as Byberg
- 13 Chairs (1945)
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