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Bo Svenson

Bo Svenson

Birthday: 1941-02-13 | Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Bo Svenson (born February 13, 1941) is a Swedish-born American actor, known for his roles in American genre films of the 1970s and 1980s. In the late 1960s, Svenson had a recurring role in the hit TV series Here Come the Brides as Lumberjack Olaf "Big Swede" Gustavsen. Svenson appeared in the 1973 made-for-TV movie Frankenstein, in which he plays the Creature. One of Svenson's first big-screen movie roles was opposite Robert Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper, where Redford and Svenson play rival ex-WWI U.S. Army Air Service pilots who are now employed in the hard and dangerous but wildly adventurous lives of 1920's barnstorming pilots, touring the Midwest. In his next pursuit, Svenson took over the role of lawman Buford Pusser from Joe Don Baker in both sequels to the hit 1973 film Walking Tall, after Pusser himself, who had originally agreed to take over the role, died in an automobile crash. He reprised the role again for the short-lived 1981 television series of the same name.[5] One of his most famous roles in films was as murder-witness-turned-vigilante Michael McBain in the 1976 cult classic Breaking Point. He played the Soviet agent Ivan in the Magnum, P.I. episode "Did You See the Sunrise?" (1982) and many years later had a cameo as an American colonel in Inglourious Basterds, as a tribute to his role in The Inglorious Bastards; he is the only actor to appear in both films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Svenson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Finding Grace

as    Dr. Nelson

2014
Pride of Lions

as    Mick Skinner

2013
Non-Stop

as    Dr. Halperin

2010
America's National Treasures

as    Narrator

2010
The 7 Adventures of Sinbad

as    Simon Magnusson

2010
Icarus

as    Vadim

2006
Raising Jeffrey Dahmer

as    Detective John Amos

2005
Hell to Pay

as    Del Shannon

2004
I'll Be Seeing You

as    Philip Carter

2000
Crackerjack 3

as    Jack Thorn

1998
Yukie

as    Richard

1995
Steel Frontier

as    Roy Ackett

1994
Savage Land

as    Jeb

1989
Soda Cracker

as    Ivan Moss

1989
Curse II: The Bite

as    The Sheriff

1988
Deep Space

as    Captain Robertson

1988
Primal Rage

as    Ethridge

1987
Double Target

as    Col. Galckin

1987
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

as    Maurice Fronenac

1987
Thunder II

as    Sheriff Roger

1986
Choke Canyon

as    Capt. Oliver Parkside

1986
Heartbreak Ridge

as    Roy Jennings

1985
1981
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

as    Detective Joe Carlson

1981
The Inglorious Bastards

as    Lt. Robert Yeager

1979
North Dallas Forty

as    Jo Bob Priddy

1979
Gold of the Amazon Women

as    Tom Jensen

1977
Final Chapter---Walking Tall

as    Buford Pusser

1977
Snowbeast

as    Gar Seberg