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Encyclopedia > Bengt Ekerot

Bengt Ekerot (February 8, 1920November 26, 1971) was a Swedish actor. He was born in Stockholm. February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The Old town in Stockholm from the air Stockholm ▶(?) is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ...


Bengt Ekerot had several roles in Swedish films, but he became internationally immortalized in 1957 when he starred in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, portraying "Death" as a pale faced man in a black cloak, which created a movie stereotype to be endlessly copied in later movies. 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman â–¶(?) (pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA in Unicode notation) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ... Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) is a 1957 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, most notable for the scene in which a medieval knight (played by Max von Sydow) plays chess with the personification of Death, with his life resting on the outcome of the game. ...


Sometimes credited as: Bengt Ekeroth


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The Seventh Seal (1957) (1868 words)
Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson.
In a fourteenth-century danse macabre, Death might appear as an emissary from God beckoning men to judgment and the afterlife.
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During his lifetime, the Swedish had embraced O’Neill’s work to a far greater extent than had any other nation, including his own.
Thus, the play had its world premiere in Stockholm on February 2, 1956, in a production directed by Bengt Ekerot, with the cast of Lars Hanson (James Tyrone), Inga Tidblad (Mary Tyrone), Ulf Palme (James Tyrone, Jr.), Jarl Kulle (Edmund Tyrone) and Caterine Westerlund (Cathleen, the serving-maid or "second girl" as O'Neill's script dubs her).
The Broadway debut of Long Day's Journey Into Night took place at the Helen Hayes Theatre on November 7, 1956.
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