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 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)
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7007 |
| Birthday | 1920-02-08 |
| Place of Birth | Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden |
| Also Known As |
1957
The Seventh Seal
8.139/3445
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Dea...
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The Seventh Seal
1966
Here Is Your Life
7.1/30
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
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Here Is Your Life
1958
The Magician
7.3/250
A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical...
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The Magician
1946
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
7/2
Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she fall...
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Brita i grosshandlarhuset
1942
Flames in the Dark
6.3/3
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a strok...
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Flames in the Dark
1968
Who Saw Him Die?
7.069/29
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by n...
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Who Saw Him Die?
1945
Crime and Punishment
7.7/3
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...
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Crime and Punishment
1956
Sceningång
5.7/3
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for t...
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Sceningång
1945
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
5.111/9
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a fe...
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1946
Interlude
5.333/3
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrives in Lugano in Switzerland, close to Italy, for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz con...
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Interlude
1960
On a Bench in a Park
5/8
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they ge...
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On a Bench in a Park
1945
Rosen på Tistelön
6.667/3
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
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Rosen på Tistelön
1945
The Royal Rabble
6.8/6
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
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The Royal Rabble
1958
Jazz Boy
7.3/5
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love wi...
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Jazz Boy
1941
Snapphanar
6/6
In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak at...
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Snapphanar
1963
The Face of War
8/1
A realistic depiction of the cruelties of war in modern time.
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The Face of War
1942
Man glömmer ingenting
7/1
When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold is immediately attracted to the 19-year old girl, b...
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Man glömmer ingenting
1942
We Home Toilers
7/3
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapi...
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We Home Toilers
1955
Hamlet
10/1
Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his broth...
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Hamlet
1963
Det går an
9/1
Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.
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Det går an
1943
Sonja
7.2/4
Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up. Secrets from Sonja's past li...
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Sonja
1964
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
0/0
The material is taken from the exhibition 'Konstnärernas' (Artists) Stockholm in Liljewalch's art gallery in autumn 1963, with paintings from 1583 to...
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Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1967
Ola and Julia
6.2/5
Ola is a pop idol, touring with his band in Sweden in the mid-60's. Julia is a young actress in a traveling theatre company. They meet and fall in lov...
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Ola and Julia
1943
Natt i hamn
9/1
Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headli...
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Natt i hamn
1941
The Talk of the Town
6.333/3
In a small town anonymous letters are delivered to five different families. The letters are signed "Veritas" (Truth). They tell of a series of events...
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The Talk of the Town
1940
They Staked Their Lives
6.5/2
"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors...
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They Staked Their Lives
1945
13 Chairs
6.5/2
Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with G...
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13 Chairs
1968
The Corridor
6.857/7
A newly graduated doctor finds trauma too heavy in everyday work of the hospital. He is constantly facing new demands which ultimately threatens to ov...
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The Corridor
1967
Life's Just Great
5.8/5
Two impressionable teenage girls fall in with a beatnik crowd that is content to avoid work and have fun. The group lives for today while committing p...
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Life's Just Great
1943
När ungdomen vaknar
9/1
Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.
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När ungdomen vaknar
1951
The Nuthouse
5.2/5
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material...
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The Nuthouse
1966
The D.T.'s
7/1
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum char...
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The D.T.'s
1945
Three Sons
9/1
Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.
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Three Sons
1940
Hanna in High Society
8.333/3
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to h...
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Hanna in High Society
1943
Herre med portfölj
9/1
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that...
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Herre med portfölj
1953
Marianne
9/1
Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered...
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Marianne
1947
Dynamite
8/1
Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.
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