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