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Bengt Ekerot

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Bengt Ekerot

Born February 8, 1920 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, SwedenDied November 26, 197135 films

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.

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"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)

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The Seventh Seal posterFirst watchThe Seventh Seal19578.1as DeathWhen disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life.View film

Essential films

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The Magician poster7.3The Magician1958

Filmography

35 films as actor
  1. 1968The CorridorBirger Olsson
  2. 1968Who Saw Him Die?Eriksson
  3. 1967Ola and JuliaMax
  4. 1967Life's Just GreatThe neighbour
  5. 1966Here Is Your LifeByberg
  6. 1966The D.T.'sPoliceman/Social Worker/Guard
  7. 1963Det går an
  8. 1960On a Bench in a ParkSam Persson
  9. 1958The MagicianJohan Spegel
  10. 1958Jazz BoyErik Jonsson
  11. 1957The Seventh SealDeath
  12. 1956SceningångJohan Erikson
  13. 1955HamletHamlet
  14. 1953Marianne
  15. 1951The NuthouseA student
  16. 1947DynamiteAllan Axelson
  17. 1946InterludeGerman patient
  18. 1946Brita i grosshandlarhuset"Paniken"
  19. 194513 Chairs
  20. 1945Crime and PunishmentStudent
  21. 1945Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have Itradio man (voice) (uncredited)
  22. 1945Rosen på TistelönAnton Haraldsson
  23. 1945Three SonsErik
  24. 1945The Royal Rabble
  25. 1943Herre med portföljStig
  26. 1943SonjaBengt
  27. 1943När ungdomen vaknarLennart
  28. 1943Natt i hamnJohn
  29. 1942Man glömmer ingentingStudent at art school (uncredited)
  30. 1942We Home ToilersLinus Tallhagen
  31. 1942Flames in the DarkÅke Kronström
  32. 1941SnapphanarLille-Jonas
  33. 1941The Talk of the TownSven Törring
  34. 1940Hanna in High SocietyFred Hummerberg
  35. 1940They Staked Their LivesDick, freedom fighter