Bengt Ekerot
Date of birth: 1920-02-08
Place of birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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)
Movie Credits
The Seventh Seal
1957-02-16
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country
Here Is Your Life
1966-12-26
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom
The Magician
1958-12-26
A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scruti
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
1946-02-04
Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm.
Flames in the Dark
1942-03-02
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill
Who Saw Him Die?
1968-03-18
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work
Crime and Punishment
1945-10-16
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. Whe
Sceningång
1956-12-03
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945-09-29
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cell
Interlude
1946-02-11
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrives in Lugano in Switzerland, close to Italy, fo
On a Bench in a Park
1960-12-19
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater
Rosen på tistelön
1945-08-05
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
The Royal Rabble
1945-01-19
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
Jazz Boy
1958-10-06
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whate
Snapphanar
1941-12-26
In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer an
The Face of War
1963-10-31
A realistic depiction of the cruelties of war in modern time.
Man glömmer ingenting
1942-12-16
When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold i
We Home Toilers
1942-04-04
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson famil
Hamlet
1955-12-04
Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His unc
Det går an
1963-10-10
Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.
Sonja
1943-11-05
Sonja (Birgit Tengroth) is a housewife happily married with the factory worker Kurt (Åke Grönberg).
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964-01-01
The material is taken from the exhibition 'Konstnärernas' (Artists) Stockholm in Liljewalch's art ga
Ola and Julia
1967-08-20
Ola is a pop idol, touring with his band in Sweden in the mid-60's. Julia is a young actress in a tr
Natt i hamn
1943-09-27
Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by m
The Talk of the Town
1941-09-29
In a small town anonymous letters are delivered to five different families. The letters are signed "
They Staked Their Lives
1940-01-01
"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship i
13 Chairs
1945-12-26
Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just receiv
Life's Just Great
1967-01-23
Two impressionable teenage girls fall in with a beatnik crowd that is content to avoid work and have
The Corridor
1968-12-11
A newly graduated doctor finds trauma too heavy in everyday work of the hospital. He is constantly f
När ungdomen vaknar
1943-11-01
Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found
The Nuthouse
1951-09-21
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the
The D.T.'s
1966-06-27
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockh
Three Sons
1945-03-03
Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plan
Hanna in High Society
1940-11-04
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hann
Herre med portfölj
1943-11-30
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for ma
Marianne
1953-09-24
Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talen
Dynamite
1947-02-07
Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.