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Occupation
  
Actor

Name
  
Bengt Ekerot

Role
  
Actor


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Born
  
8 February 1920 (
1920-02-08
)
Stockholm, Sweden

Died
  
November 26, 1971, Stockholm, Sweden

Spouse
  
Margareta Hallin (m. 1959–1968), Antoinette Gram (m. 1946)

Parents
  
Vivan Olsson, Folke Ekerot

Movies
  
The Seventh Seal, The Magician, Who Saw Him Die?, Jazzgossen, Pa en bank i en park

Similar People
  
Margareta Hallin, Gunnar Fischer, Ingmar Bergman, Hasse Ekman, Alf Sjoberg

The Magician (1958) Movie Review


Nils Bengt Folke Ekerot (sometimes credited as Bengt Ekeroth) (8 February 1920 – 26 November 1971) was a Swedish actor and director.

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Biography

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Ekerot was born in Stockholm. He had several 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.

Selected filmography

  • They Staked Their Lives (1940)
  • Hanna in Society (1940)
  • The Seventh Seal (1957)
  • The Magician (1958)
  • Life's Just Great (1967)
  • Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
  • References

    Bengt Ekerot Wikipedia