Bengt Ekerot
Born: 1920-02-08 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Died: 1971-11-26
Known For: Acting
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)
Filmography
1968
- Who Saw Him Die? as Eriksson
- The Corridor as Birger Olsson
1967
- Ola and Julia as Max
- Life's Just Great as The neighbour
1966
- Here Is Your Life as Byberg
- The D.T.'s as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
1963
- Det går an
- The Face of War as Narrator (voice)
1960
- On a Bench in a Park as Sam Persson
1959
- Måsen ... (Director)
1958
- The Magician as Johan Spegel
- Jazz Boy as Erik Jonsson
1957
- The Seventh Seal as Death
1956
- Sceningång as Johan Erikson
1955
- Hamlet as Hamlet
1953
1951
- The Nuthouse as A student
1947
- Dynamite as Allan Axelson
1946
- Interlude as German patient
- Barbacka ... (Director)
- Det glada kalaset ... (Director)
- Brita i grosshandlarhuset as "Paniken"
1945
- 13 Chairs
- Crime and Punishment as Student
- Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
- Three Sons as Erik
- The Royal Rabble
- Rosen på Tistelön as Anton Haraldsson
1943
- Natt i hamn as John
- Sonja as Bengt
- Herre med portfölj as Stig
- När ungdomen vaknar as Lennart
1942
- Flames in the Dark as Åke Kronström
- Man glömmer ingenting as Student at art school (uncredited)
- We Home Toilers as Linus Tallhagen
1941
- Snapphanar as Lille-Jonas
- The Talk of the Town as Sven Törring
1940
- Hanna in High Society as Fred Hummerberg
- They Staked Their Lives as Dick, freedom fighter