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)
Movie Appearances
The Seventh Seal
as Death
1957
Here Is Your Life
as Byberg
1966
The Magician
as Johan Spegel
1958
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
as "Paniken"
1946
Flames in the Dark
as Åke Kronström
1942
Who Saw Him Die?
as Eriksson
1968
Crime and Punishment
as Student
1945
Sceningång
as Johan Erikson
1956
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Interlude
as German patient
1946
On a Bench in a Park
as Sam Persson
1960
Rosen på Tistelön
as Anton Haraldsson
1945
The Royal Rabble
1945
Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson
1958
Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas
1941
The Face of War
as Narrator (voice)
1963
Man glömmer ingenting
as Student at art school (uncredited)
1942
We Home Toilers
as Linus Tallhagen
1942
Hamlet
as Hamlet
1955
Det går an
1963