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

1968
The Corridor

as Birger Olsson

1968
Who Saw Him Die?

as Eriksson

1967
Ola och Julia

as Max, regissör

1967
Life's Just Great

as The neighbour

1966
1966
The D.T.'s

as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard

1963
The Face of War

as Narrator (voice)

1960
On a Bench in a Park

as Sam Persson

1958
The Magician

as Johan Spegel

1958
Jazz Boy

as Erik Jonsson

1957
1956
Sceningång

as Johan Erikson

1955
Hamlet

as Hamlet

1951
The Nuthouse

as A student

1947
Dynamite

as Allan Axelson

1946
Interlude

as German patient

1946
1945
1945
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

as radio man (voice) (uncredited)

1945
Rosen på tistelön

as Anton Haraldsson

1945
Three Sons

as Erik

1943
Sonja

as Bengt

1943
1943
Natt i hamn

as John

1942
Man glömmer ingenting

as Student at art school (uncredited)

1942
We Home Toilers

as Linus Tallhagen

1942
Flames in the Dark

as Åke Kronström

1941
Snapphanar

as Lille-Jonas

1941
The Talk of the Town

as Sven Törring

1940
They Staked Their Lives

as Freedom fighter

Director

1959
Måsen

as Director

1956
Sceningång

as Director

1946
Barbacka

as Director

1946
Det glada kalaset

as Director