
Bengt Ekerot
Acting
Born: February 8, 1920
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Biography
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)
Known For

February 16, 1957

December 26, 1958

December 26, 1966

March 18, 1968

September 29, 1945

December 19, 1960

January 19, 1945

December 26, 1941

December 11, 1968

January 23, 1967

September 21, 1951

October 06, 1958