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Bengt Ekerot
Actor, Director, Additional Credits
Born February 8, 1920Died November 26, 1971 (51 years)
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)
"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)
Known For
Filmography
| 2022 | Moonage Daydream · as Death |
| 2018 | Bergman – ett liv i fyra akter (TV Series) · as Death |
| 2018 | Bergman: A Year in a Life · as Death |
| 1968 | Korridoren · as Birger Olsson |
| 1968 | Who Saw Him Die? · as Eriksson |
| 1968 | Bombi Bitt och jag (TV Series) · as Kabusaprästen |
| 1967 | Ola & Julia · as Max |
| 1967 | Life's Just Great · as The Neighbour |
| 1966 | Here Is Your Life · as Byberg |
| 1966 | The D.T.'s · as Policeman/social Worker/guard |
| 1963 | The Face of War · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1960 | På en bänk i en park · as Sam Persson |
| 1958 | The Magician · as Johan Spegel |
| 1958 | Jazzgossen · as Erik Jonsson |
| 1957 | The Seventh Seal · as Death |
| 1956 | Sceningång · as Johan Erikson |
| 1953 | |
| 1951 | Dårskapens hus · as A Student |
| 1947 | Dynamite · as Allan Axelson |
| 1946 | Interlude · as German Patient |
| 1946 | Brita i grosshandlarhuset · as "paniken" |
| 1945 | |
| 1945 | Crime and Punishment · as Student |
| 1945 | Fram för lilla Märta eller På livets ödesvägar: Ett biografdrama i prolog, epilog och ett antal tableauxer · as Radio Man (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Rosen på Tistelön · as Anton Haraldsson |
| 1945 | Tre söner gick till flyget · as Erik |
| 1945 | |
| 1943 | Herre med portfölj · as Stig |
| 1943 | Sonja · as Bengt |
| 1943 | När ungdomen vaknar · as Lennart |
| 1943 | Night in the Harbor · as John |
| 1942 | Man glömmer ingenting · as Student At Art School (uncredited) |
| 1942 | We Home Toilers · as Linus Tallhagen |
| 1942 | Lågor i dunklet · as Åke Kronström |
| 1941 | Scanian Guerilla · as Lille-Jonas |
| 1941 | Det sägs på stan · as Sven Törring |
| 1940 | |
| 1940 | Med livet som insats · as Freedom Fighter |