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. The demons destroyed his beauty." Erland Josephson on Bengt Ekerot in "The Role"(Book 1989)
37 acting credits · 4 directing credits
Acting · 37
The Seventh Seal
1957
The Magician
1958
The Corridor
1968
Sceningång
1956
Who Saw Him Die?
1968
Crime and Punishment
1945
Here Is Your Life
1966
13 Chairs
1945
Flames in the Dark
1942
Hanna in High Society
1940
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964
Natt i hamn
1943
We Home Toilers
1942
Ola and Julia
1967
The D.T.'s
1966
The Nuthouse
1951
Man glömmer ingenting
1942
Jazz Boy
1958
Snapphanar
1941
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945
The Royal Rabble
1945
Life's Just Great
1967
Marianne
1953
Interlude
1946
Hamlet
1955
Three Sons
1945
The Talk of the Town
1941
Dynamite
1947
On a Bench in a Park
1960
Herre med portfölj
1943
The Face of War
1963
Det går an
1963
They Staked Their Lives
1940
Sonja
1943
Rosen på Tistelön
1945
När ungdomen vaknar
1943
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
1946
