Bengt Ekerot

Actor

Born: February 8, 1920
Died: November 26, 1971 (age 51)
From: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

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…

Filmography (40)

The Corridor (1968)
Birger Olsson
Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Eriksson
Ola and Julia (1967)
Max
Life's Just Great (1967)
The neighbour
Here Is Your Life (1966)
Byberg
The D.T.'s (1966)
Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries (1964)
The Face of War (1963)
Narrator (voice)
Det går an
Det går an (1963)
On a Bench in a Park (1960)
Sam Persson
Måsen
Måsen (1959)
Director
The Magician (1958)
Johan Spegel
Jazz Boy (1958)
Erik Jonsson
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Death
Sceningång (1956)
Director
Hamlet
Hamlet (1955)
Hamlet
Marianne (1953)
The Nuthouse (1951)
A student
Dynamite
Dynamite (1947)
Allan Axelson
Barbacka
Barbacka (1946)
Director
Det glada kalaset (1946)
Director
Interlude (1946)
German patient
Brita i grosshandlarhuset (1946)
"Paniken"
13 Chairs (1945)
Crime and Punishment (1945)
Student
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It (1945)
radio man (voice) (uncredited)
Rosen på Tistelön (1945)
Anton Haraldsson
Three Sons (1945)
Erik
The Royal Rabble (1945)
Herre med portfölj (1943)
Stig