Acting · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden · Born February 8, 1920
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)
MovieThe Corridor
1968
as Birger Olsson
MovieWho Saw Him Die?
1968
as Eriksson
MovieOla and Julia
1967
as Max
MovieLife's Just Great
1967
as The neighbour
MovieHere Is Your Life
1966
as Byberg
MovieThe D.T.'s
1966
as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964
MovieThe Face of War
1963
as Narrator (voice)
Det går an
1963
MovieOn a Bench in a Park
1960
as Sam Persson
MovieThe Magician
1958
as Johan Spegel
MovieJazz Boy
1958
as Erik Jonsson
MovieThe Seventh Seal
1957
as Death
MovieSceningång
1956
as Johan Erikson
Hamlet
1955
as Hamlet
MovieMarianne
1953
MovieThe Nuthouse
1951
as A student
Dynamite
1947
as Allan Axelson
MovieInterlude
1946
as German patient
MovieBrita i grosshandlarhuset
1946
as "Paniken"
Movie13 Chairs
1945
MovieCrime and Punishment
1945
as Student
MoviePut Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
MovieRosen på Tistelön
1945
as Anton Haraldsson
MovieThree Sons
1945
as Erik
MovieThe Royal Rabble
1945
MovieHerre med portfölj
1943
as Stig
MovieSonja
1943
as Bengt
MovieNär ungdomen vaknar
1943
as Lennart
MovieNatt i hamn
1943
as John
MovieMan glömmer ingenting
1942
as Student at art school (uncredited)
MovieWe Home Toilers
1942
as Linus Tallhagen
MovieFlames in the Dark
1942
as Åke Kronström
MovieSnapphanar
1941
as Lille-Jonas
MovieThe Talk of the Town
1941
as Sven Törring
MovieHanna in High Society
1940
as Fred Hummerberg
MovieThey Staked Their Lives
1940
as Dick, freedom fighter
