Bengt Ekerot

Born: 1920-02-08

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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The Seventh Seal

as Death
Released: 1957-02-16

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his...

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The Magician

as Johan Spegel
Released: 1958-12-26

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading...

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Here Is Your Life

as Byberg
Released: 1966-12-26

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and...

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Hamlet

as Hamlet
Released: 1955-12-04

Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His...

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The Nuthouse

as A student
Released: 1951-09-21

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from...

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The Corridor

as Birger Olsson
Released: 1968-12-11

A newly graduated doctor finds trauma too heavy in everyday work of the hospital. He is...

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Snapphanar

as Lille-Jonas
Released: 1941-12-26

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the...

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Jazz Boy

as Erik Jonsson
Released: 1958-10-06

The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s....

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The Royal Rabble

as uncredited
Released: 1945-01-19

The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

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The D.T.'s

as Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Released: 1966-06-27

An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the...

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Crime and Punishment

as Student
Released: 1945-10-16

A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to...

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On a Bench in a Park

as Sam Persson
Released: 1960-12-19

Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates,...

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Marianne

as uncredited
Released: 1953-09-24

Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his...

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We Home Toilers

as Linus Tallhagen
Released: 1942-04-04

The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson...

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Interlude

as German patient
Released: 1946-02-11

The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay...

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Who Saw Him Die?

as Eriksson
Released: 1968-03-18

Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His...

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13 Chairs

as uncredited
Released: 1945-12-26

Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just...

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Ola och Julia

as Max, regissör
Released: 1967-08-20

A lovestory with one of the biggest pop stars from that time.

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They Staked Their Lives

as Freedom fighter
Released: 1940-01-01

"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the...

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The Face of War

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1963-10-31

A realistic depiction of the cruelties of war in modern time.

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Hanna in High Society

as uncredited
Released: 1940-11-04

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid...

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Brita i grosshandlarhuset

as "Paniken"
Released: 1946-02-04

Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in...

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Man glömmer ingenting

as Student at art school (uncredited)
Released: 1942-12-16

When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice....

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Life's Just Great

as The neighbour
Released: 1967-01-23

Two impressionable teenage girls fall in with a beatnik crowd that is content to avoid work and...

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Dynamite

as Allan Axelson
Released: 1947-02-07

Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.

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Natt i hamn

as John
Released: 1943-09-27

Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded...

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Sceningång

as Johan Erikson
Released: 1956-12-03

A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot...

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Sonja

as Bengt
Released: 1943-11-05

Sonja (Birgit Tengroth) is a housewife happily married with the factory worker Kurt (Åke...

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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

as uncredited
Released: 1945-09-29

An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a...

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Three Sons

as Erik
Released: 1945-03-03

Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's...

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Rosen på tistelön

as Anton Haraldsson
Released: 1945-08-05

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

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Herre med portfölj

as Stig
Released: 1943-11-30

Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married...

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Flames in the Dark

as Åke Kronström
Released: 1942-03-02

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically...

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När ungdomen vaknar

as Lennart
Released: 1943-11-01

Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having...

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The Talk of the Town

as Sven Törring
Released: 1941-09-29

In a small town anonymous letters are delivered to five different families. The letters are...

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