caption death_date death_place birth_place birth_date image article_title name occupation
as 1957 -rrb- death in '' the seventh seal '' -lrb- 26 november 1971 stockholm , sweden stockholm , sweden 8 february 1920 deathseventhseal.png bengt ekerot
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bengt ekerot

bengt ekerot -lrb- sometimes credited as bengt ekeroth -rrb- -lrb- 8 february 1920 -- 26 november 1971 -rrb- was a swedish actor and director .
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 .
