Bo Svenson

Known for ActingBorn 1941-02-13 (age 85)Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

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.Read more

Movies & web series

America's National Treasures

The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight

Intertect

Solitude Point

Inglourious Basterds

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Banyon

Due South

Kung Fu

Tides of War

Murder, She Wrote

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

The Snoop Sisters

Mission: Impossible

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Magnum, P.I.

Hitched

The Commish

Crazy like a Fox

Frankenstein

Hunter

Stolz der Nation

Armour of God

McCloud

Brothers in Blood

Target Risk

Heartbreak Ridge

Maurie

You'll Never See Me Again

The Name of the Game

Daniel Boone

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

The Rookies

Walking Tall

Hell to Pay

Cobra

Ironside

North Dallas Forty

The High Chaparral

The Chicago Teddy Bears

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

Breaking Point

The Great Waldo Pepper

The Bravos

Virus

Soda Cracker

The Inglorious Bastards