Bengt Ekerot

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...

Known For

The Magician

as Johan Spegel

Who Saw Him Die?

as Eriksson

Cast Credits

The Corridor

as Birger Olsson

Who Saw Him Die?

as Eriksson

Life's Just Great

as The neighbour

The D.T.'s

as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard

On a Bench in a Park

as Sam Persson

The Magician

as Johan Spegel

Jazz Boy

as Erik Jonsson

Sceningång

as Johan Erikson

Hamlet

as Hamlet

The Nuthouse

as A student

Dynamite

as Allan Axelson

Interlude

as German patient

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

as radio man (voice) (uncredited)

Rosen på tistelön

as Anton Haraldsson

Three Sons

as Erik

Sonja

as Bengt

Man glömmer ingenting

as Student at art school (uncredited)

We Home Toilers

as Linus Tallhagen

Crew Credits