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)
Acting
Movie
The Seventh Seal
as Death
1957
Movie
The Magician
as Johan Spegel
1958
Movie
Here Is Your Life
as Byberg
1966
Movie
Who Saw Him Die?
as Eriksson
1968
Movie
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Movie
On a Bench in a Park
as Sam Persson
1960
Movie
The Corridor
as Birger Olsson
1968
Movie
The Royal Rabble
1945
Movie
Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas
1941
Movie
Ola and Julia
as Max
1967
Movie
Life's Just Great
as The neighbour
1967
Movie
The Nuthouse
as A student
1951
Movie
Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson
1958
Movie
Sonja
as Bengt
1943
Movie
Flames in the Dark
as Åke Kronström
1942
Movie
Crime and Punishment
as Student
1945
Movie
Sceningång
as Johan Erikson
1956
Movie
Interlude
as German patient
1946
Movie
Rosen på Tistelön
as Anton Haraldsson
1945
Movie
We Home Toilers
as Linus Tallhagen
1942
Movie
The Talk of the Town
as Sven Törring
1941
Movie
Hanna in High Society
as Fred Hummerberg
1940
Movie
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
as "Paniken"
1946
Movie
They Staked Their Lives
as Dick, freedom fighter
1940
