
Acting
Born 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 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)

The Corridor
1968

Who Saw Him Die?
1968

Ola and Julia
1967

Life's Just Great
1967

Here Is Your Life
1966

The D.T.'s
1966
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964

The Face of War
1963

Det går an
1963

On a Bench in a Park
1960

The Magician
1958

Jazz Boy
1958

The Seventh Seal
1957

Sceningång
1956

Hamlet
1955

Marianne
1953

The Nuthouse
1951

Dynamite
1947

Interlude
1946

Brita i grosshandlarhuset
1946

13 Chairs
1945

Crime and Punishment
1945

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945

Rosen på tistelön
1945

Three Sons
1945

The Royal Rabble
1945

Herre med portfölj
1943

Sonja
1943

När ungdomen vaknar
1943

Natt i hamn
1943

Man glömmer ingenting
1942

We Home Toilers
1942

Flames in the Dark
1942

Snapphanar
1941

The Talk of the Town
1941

Hanna in High Society
1940

They Staked Their Lives
1940