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)

Filmografi

The Seventh Seal1957 · DeathThe Magician1958 · Johan SpegelMarianne1953 · The Nuthouse1951 · A studentHere Is Your Life1966 · BybergSonja1943 · BengtNär ungdomen vaknar1943 · LennartInterlude1946 · German patientOn a Bench in a Park1960 · Sam PerssonCrime and Punishment1945 · StudentRosen på Tistelön1945 · Anton HaraldssonThree Sons1945 · ErikThey Staked Their Lives1940 · Dick, freedom fighterPut Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It1945 · radio man (voice) (uncredited)Flames in the Dark1942 · Åke KronströmThe D.T.'s1966 · Policeman/Social Worker/GuardDynamite1947 · Allan AxelsonJazz Boy1958 · Erik JonssonLife's Just Great1967 · The neighbourThe Corridor1968 · Birger OlssonThe Talk of the Town1941 · Sven TörringWho Saw Him Die?1968 · ErikssonOla and Julia1967 · MaxMan glömmer ingenting1942 · Student at art school (uncredited)