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Bengt Ekerot

Acting Born Feb 8, 1920 Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden 24 credits

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)

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Known for

Film

The Seventh Seal

as Death
Film

The Magician

as Johan Spegel

The Corridor People

as Byberg

Full filmography

  • The Seventh Seal (1957) as Death
  • The Magician (1958) as Johan Spegel
  • Here Is Your Life (1966) as Byberg
  • Who Saw Him Die? (1968) as Eriksson
  • Hamlet (1955) as Hamlet
  • Jazz Boy (1958) as Erik Jonsson
  • Sceningång (1956) as Johan Erikson
  • Brita i grosshandlarhuset (1946) as "Paniken"
  • Natt i hamn (1943) as John
  • Life's Just Great (1967) as The neighbour
  • 13 Chairs (1945)
  • The Corridor (1968) as Birger Olsson
  • The Talk of the Town (1941) as Sven Törring
  • Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It (1945) as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
  • Rosen på Tistelön (1945) as Anton Haraldsson
  • Flames in the Dark (1942) as Åke Kronström
  • Snapphanar (1941) as Lille-Jonas
  • The Nuthouse (1951) as A student
  • We Home Toilers (1942) as Linus Tallhagen
  • Ola and Julia (1967) as Max
  • Marianne (1953)
  • On a Bench in a Park (1960) as Sam Persson
  • Sonja (1943) as Bengt
  • The D.T.'s (1966) as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard