Bengt Ekerot

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Bengt Ekerot

Acting February 8, 1920

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 T…

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The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

8.1 1957 Movie
The Magician

The Magician

7.3 1958 Movie
Here Is Your Life

Here Is Your Life

7.1 1966 Movie
Who Saw Him Die?

Who Saw Him Die?

7.1 1968 Movie
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

5.1 1945 Movie
On a Bench in a Park

On a Bench in a Park

5.0 1960 Movie
Jazz Boy

Jazz Boy

7.3 1958 Movie
The Royal Rabble

The Royal Rabble

6.8 1945 Movie
The Nuthouse

The Nuthouse

5.2 1951 Movie
Sonja

Sonja

7.2 1943 Movie
Interlude

Interlude

5.3 1946 Movie
The Corridor

The Corridor

6.9 1968 Movie

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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)

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1968
    The Corridor

    Movie Birger Olsson

  2. 1968
    Who Saw Him Die?

    Movie Eriksson

  3. 1967
    Ola and Julia

    Movie Max

  4. 1967
    Life's Just Great

    Movie The neighbour

  5. 1966
    Here Is Your Life

    Movie Byberg

  6. 1966
    The D.T.'s

    Movie Policeman/Social Worker/Guard

  7. 1964
    Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries

    Movie

  8. 1963
    The Face of War

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  9. 1963
    Det går an

    Movie

  10. 1960
    On a Bench in a Park

    Movie Sam Persson

  11. 1959
    Måsen

    Movie Director

  12. 1958
    The Magician

    Movie Johan Spegel

  13. 1958
    Jazz Boy

    Movie Erik Jonsson

  14. 1957
    The Seventh Seal

    Movie Death

  15. 1956
    Sceningång

    Movie Johan Erikson

  16. 1955
    Hamlet

    Movie Hamlet

More credits
  1. 1953
    Marianne

    Movie

  2. 1951
    The Nuthouse

    Movie A student

  3. 1947
    Dynamite

    Movie Allan Axelson

  4. 1946
    Barbacka

    Movie Director

  5. 1946
    Det glada kalaset

    Movie Director

  6. 1946
    Interlude

    Movie German patient

  7. 1946
    Brita i grosshandlarhuset

    Movie "Paniken"

  8. 1945
    13 Chairs

    Movie

  9. 1945
    Crime and Punishment

    Movie Student

  10. 1945
    Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

    Movie radio man (voice) (uncredited)

  11. 1945
    Rosen på Tistelön

    Movie Anton Haraldsson

  12. 1945
    Three Sons

    Movie Erik

  13. 1945
    The Royal Rabble

    Movie

  14. 1943
    Herre med portfölj

    Movie Stig

  15. 1943
    Sonja

    Movie Bengt

  16. 1943
    När ungdomen vaknar

    Movie Lennart

  17. 1943
    Natt i hamn

    Movie John

  18. 1942
    Man glömmer ingenting

    Movie Student at art school (uncredited)

  19. 1942
    We Home Toilers

    Movie Linus Tallhagen

  20. 1942
    Flames in the Dark

    Movie Åke Kronström

  21. 1941
    Snapphanar

    Movie Lille-Jonas

  22. 1941
    The Talk of the Town

    Movie Sven Törring

  23. 1940
    Hanna in High Society

    Movie Fred Hummerberg

  24. 1940
    They Staked Their Lives

    Movie Dick, freedom fighter