Bengt Ekerot

Bengt Ekerot

Born: February 8, 1920
Died: November 26, 1971
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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)

Movies for Bengt Ekerot...

The Corridor
Title: The Corridor
Character: Birger Olsson
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
A newly graduated doctor finds trauma too heavy in everyday work of the hospital. He is constantly facing new demands which ultimately threatens to overpower him. He is about to give up his career.idoren
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Who Saw Him Die?
Title: Who Saw Him Die?
Character: Eriksson
Released: March 18, 1968
Type: Movie
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 nightmares.
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Ola och Julia
Title: Ola och Julia
Character: Max, regissör
Released: August 20, 1967
Type: Movie
A lovestory with one of the biggest pop stars from that time.
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Life's Just Great
Title: Life's Just Great
Character: The neighbour
Released: January 23, 1967
Type: Movie
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 petty crimes and revels in being outside social convention until their adventures take a murderous turn. A young divorcee with a baby feels that life has passed her by as her friends enjoy a carefree time. Another couple with a young child is headed for divorce when their idyllic bubble is burst and they are overwhelmed by reality.
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Here Is Your Life
Title: Here Is Your Life
Character: Byberg
Released: December 26, 1966
Type: Movie
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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The D.T.'s
Title: The D.T.'s
Character: Policeman/Social Worker/Guard
Released: June 27, 1966
Type: Movie
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum characters and dreams of his ideal girl.
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The Face of War
Title: The Face of War
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 31, 1963
Type: Movie
A realistic depiction of the cruelties of war in modern time.
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Det går an
Title: Det går an
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.
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On a Bench in a Park
Title: On a Bench in a Park
Character: Sam Persson
Released: December 19, 1960
Type: Movie
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 get into a fight...
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The Magician
Title: The Magician
Character: Johan Spegel
Released: December 26, 1958
Type: Movie
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
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Jazz Boy
Title: Jazz Boy
Character: Erik Jonsson
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: Movie
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 with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
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The Seventh Seal
Title: The Seventh Seal
Character: Death
Released: February 16, 1957
Type: Movie
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
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Sceningång
Title: Sceningång
Character: Johan Erikson
Released: December 3, 1956
Type: Movie
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 the good parts.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Hamlet
Released: December 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his brother's widow queen. Claudius asks Hamlet to stop mourn his father.
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Marianne
Title: Marianne
Released: September 24, 1953
Type: Movie
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. The students come from different social and economical environments.
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The Nuthouse
Title: The Nuthouse
Character: A student
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
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 is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
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Dynamite
Title: Dynamite
Character: Allan Axelson
Released: February 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.
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Interlude
Title: Interlude
Character: German patient
Released: February 11, 1946
Type: Movie
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Title: Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Character: "Paniken"
Released: February 4, 1946
Type: Movie
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 falls in love with a young man. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from the old village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.
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13 Chairs
Title: 13 Chairs
Released: December 26, 1945
Type: Movie
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 Gun Svärdsjö.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Student
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Title: Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
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 female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
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Rosen på tistelön
Title: Rosen på tistelön
Character: Anton Haraldsson
Released: August 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
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Three Sons
Title: Three Sons
Character: Erik
Released: March 3, 1945
Type: Movie
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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The Royal Rabble
Title: The Royal Rabble
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
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Herre med portfölj
Title: Herre med portfölj
Character: Stig
Released: November 30, 1943
Type: Movie
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 he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife.
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Sonja
Title: Sonja
Character: Bengt
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Sonja (Birgit Tengroth) is a housewife happily married with the factory worker Kurt (Åke Grönberg). But what he doesn't know is that Sonja has a dark secret of the past; she is a former prostitute. When suddenly Sonja's former, sleazy pimp Nick (Sture Lagerwall) shows up, he blackmails her into giving him money and letting him stay at their home. Otherwise he will tell Kurt about Sonja past. Sonja comply, but when Nick starts a relationship with Kurt's young and innocent sister Maj, Sonja has to act so Maj doesn't make the same mistake she did.
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När ungdomen vaknar
Title: När ungdomen vaknar
Character: Lennart
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
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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Natt i hamn
Title: Natt i hamn
Character: John
Released: September 27, 1943
Type: Movie
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 headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.
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Man glömmer ingenting
Title: Man glömmer ingenting
Character: Student at art school (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1942
Type: Movie
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, but his wife, jealous and alcoholic, notices it and becomes hostile to Nora. Nora begins her art studies to become a painter and gets to know the young Johan Manel, who falls in love with her.
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We Home Toilers
Title: We Home Toilers
Character: Linus Tallhagen
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
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 rapid turnover of housemaids.
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Flames in the Dark
Title: Flames in the Dark
Character: Åke Kronström
Released: March 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
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Snapphanar
Title: Snapphanar
Character: Lille-Jonas
Released: December 26, 1941
Type: Movie
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 attacks on the invading army.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Character: Sven Törring
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
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 and conditions that the recipients thought was forgotten and buried long ago.
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Hanna in High Society
Title: Hanna in High Society
Released: November 4, 1940
Type: Movie
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 have the last will canceled.
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They Staked Their Lives
Title: They Staked Their Lives
Character: Freedom fighter
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
"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 to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.