Bengt Ekerot
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1920-02-08
Deathday 1971-11-26 (51 years old)
Place of Birth Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Bengt Ekerot
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
Actor
as Birger Olsson
as Eriksson
as Max, regissör
as The neighbour
as Byberg
as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
as Narrator (voice)
as Sam Persson
as Johan Spegel
as Erik Jonsson
as Death
as Johan Erikson
as Hamlet
as A student
as Allan Axelson
as German patient
as "Paniken"
as Student
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
as Anton Haraldsson
as Erik
as Stig
as Bengt
as Lennart
as John
as Student at art school (uncredited)
as Linus Tallhagen
as Åke Kronström
as Lille-Jonas
as Sven Törring
as Freedom fighter
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Assistant Director