Actor

Bengt Ekerot

Acting

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Acting credits

Established

Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

2.6

Moderate attention

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Movies: 39Series: 0Crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 6656

IMDb ID: nm0252345

Known for: Acting

Born: February 8, 1920

Died: November 26, 1971

Age: 51

Place of birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1940 - 1968

Years active: 29

Average TMDB rating: 7.42

Wikidata: Q792878

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Director (4)Assistant Director (1)

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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)

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