Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/8/1920
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 o...
Known For
The Seventh Seal
as Death
The Magician
as Johan Spegel
Hamlet
as Hamlet
Dynamite
as Allan Axelson
Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas
The Nuthouse
as A student
The D.T.'s
as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson
13 Chairs
Unknown Role
Sceningång
as Johan Erikson
Marianne
Unknown Role
The Royal Rabble
Unknown Role
The Face of War
as Narrator (voice)
The Corridor
as Birger Olsson
Sonja
as Bengt
Here Is Your Life
as Byberg
The Talk of the Town
as Sven Törring
Det går an
Unknown Role
Natt i hamn
as John
Man glömmer ingenting
as Student at art school (uncredited)