Bengt Ekerot

Acting

37 Movies

Born

February 8, 1920

Died

November 26, 1971

Place of Birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

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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 appe…