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Bo Svenson

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1941-02-13 (Age: 85)

Place of Birth

Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Bo Svenson

Biography

Bo Svenson (born 13 February 1941) is a Swedish-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, 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.

Filmography (75)

⭐ 7.0 Role: Himself

Baboon Bite Maniacs! - "Primal Rage" 35 Years Later

2023
⭐ 5.7 Role: Dr. Nelson

Finding Grace

2020
⭐ 5.6 Role: John

My Sisters Kids & the Gold Diggers

2015
⭐ 0 Role: W.W. Tolliver

Jersey Justice

2014
⭐ 3.1 Role: Mick Skinner

The Dependables

2014
⭐ 5.8 Role: Dr. Halperin

Non-Stop

2013
⭐ 8.1 Role: Reverend Harmony

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

2011
⭐ 0 Role: Bill

Angry

2010
⭐ 3.5 Role: Simon Magnusson

The 7 Adventures of Sinbad

2010
⭐ 4.9 Role: Vadim

Icarus

2010
⭐ 6.8 Role: Benjamin Palme

Stolz der Nation

2009
⭐ 8.2 Role: American Colonel

Inglourious Basterds

2009
⭐ 4.7 Role: Foreman Bo

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

2008
⭐ 5.8 Role: Detective John Amos

Raising Jeffrey Dahmer

2006
⭐ 6.5 Role: Del Shannon

Hell to Pay

2005