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)
Movie | The Corridor | Birger Olsson | 1968-12-11 |
Movie | Who Saw Him Die? | Eriksson | 1968-03-18 |
Movie | Life's Just Great | The neighbour | 1967-01-23 |
Movie | Ola och Julia | Max, regissör | 1967-08-20 |
Movie | The D.T.'s | Policeman/Social Worker/Guard | 1966-06-27 |
Movie | Here Is Your Life | Byberg | 1966-12-26 |
Movie | The Face of War | Narrator (voice) | 1963-10-31 |
Movie | On a Bench in a Park | Sam Persson | 1960-12-19 |
Movie | Jazz Boy | Erik Jonsson | 1958-10-06 |
Movie | The Magician | Johan Spegel | 1958-12-26 |
Movie | The Seventh Seal | Death | 1957-02-16 |
Movie | Sceningång | Johan Erikson | 1956-12-03 |
Movie | Marianne | 1953-09-24 | |
Movie | The Nuthouse | A student | 1951-09-21 |
Movie | Brita i grosshandlarhuset | "Paniken" | 1946-02-04 |
Movie | Interlude | German patient | 1946-02-11 |
Movie | The Royal Rabble | 1945-01-19 | |
Movie | Three Sons | Erik | 1945-03-03 |
Movie | Rosen på tistelön | Anton Haraldsson | 1945-08-05 |
Movie | 13 Chairs | 1945-12-26 | |
Movie | Crime and Punishment | Student | 1945-10-16 |
Movie | Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It | 1945-09-29 | |
Movie | Natt i hamn | John | 1943-09-27 |
Movie | När ungdomen vaknar | Lennart | 1943-11-01 |
Movie | Herre med portfölj | Stig | 1943-11-30 |
Movie | Sonja | Bengt | 1943-11-05 |
Movie | Flames in the Dark | Åke Kronström | 1942-03-02 |
Movie | We Home Toilers | Linus Tallhagen | 1942-04-04 |
Movie | The Talk of the Town | Sven Törring | 1941-09-29 |
Movie | Snapphanar | Lille-Jonas | 1941-12-26 |
Movie | They Staked Their Lives | Freedom fighter | 1940-01-01 |