Bengt Ekerot
Actor
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)
As Director
Filmography
The Seventh Seal
as Death 1957
The Magician
as Johan Spegel 1958
Here Is Your Life
as Byberg 1966
Who Saw Him Die?
as Eriksson 1968
Put Our MĂ€rta First or As Luck Will Have It
as radio man (voice) (uncredited) 1945
On a Bench in a Park
as Sam Persson 1960
The Royal Rabble
1945
Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas 1941
The Corridor
as Birger Olsson 1968
Life's Just Great
as The neighbour 1967
The Nuthouse
as A student 1951
Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson 1958
Ola and Julia
as Max 1967
Flames in the Dark
as à ke Kronström 1942
Crime and Punishment
as Student 1945
SceningÄng
as Johan Erikson 1956
Interlude
as German patient 1946