Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1920-02-08
Day of Death
1971-11-26
Place of Birth
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Bengt Ekerot
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 (37)
The Corridor
1968
Who Saw Him Die?
1968
Ola and Julia
1967
Life's Just Great
1967
Here Is Your Life
1966
The D.T.'s
1966Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964
The Face of War
1963
Det går an
1963
On a Bench in a Park
1960
The Magician
1958
Jazz Boy
1958
The Seventh Seal
1957
Sceningång
1956
