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- Died
- Place
Bengt Ekerot
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)
As director
As actor
Who Saw Him Die?
The Corridor
Ola and Julia
Life's Just Great
Here Is Your Life
The D.T.'s
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
The Face of War
Det går an
On a Bench in a Park
The Magician
Jazz Boy
The Seventh Seal
Sceningång
Hamlet
Marianne
The Nuthouse
Dynamite
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Interlude
Crime and Punishment
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Rosen på Tistelön
The Royal Rabble
13 Chairs
Three Sons
Sonja
Natt i hamn
När ungdomen vaknar
Herre med portfölj