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