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)
Known for
The Seventh Seal
Death
The Magician
Johan Spegel
Here Is Your Life
Byberg
Three Sons
Erik
Who Saw Him Die?
Eriksson
Hanna in High Society
Sceningång
Johan Erikson
The Corridor
Birger Olsson
Flames in the Dark
Åke Kronström
The Nuthouse
A student
Crime and Punishment
Student
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
radio man (voice) (uncredited)
Ola and Julia
Max
Interlude
German patient
Dynamite
Allan Axelson
13 Chairs
The Royal Rabble
We Home Toilers
Linus Tallhagen
On a Bench in a Park
Sam Persson
They Staked Their Lives
Freedom fighter
Life's Just Great
The neighbour
The Face of War
Narrator (voice)
Snapphanar
Lille-Jonas
Marianne
Jazz Boy
Erik Jonsson
Rosen på tistelön
Anton Haraldsson
Man glömmer ingenting
Student at art school (uncredited)
Hamlet
Hamlet
The Talk of the Town
Sven Törring
Natt i hamn
John
Herre med portfölj
Stig
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
"Paniken"
Sonja
Bengt
The D.T.'s
Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Det går an
När ungdomen vaknar
Lennart