Bo Svenson
Acting
Born 1941-02-13
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
101 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Award
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture 1 nominated
- 1974 Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated Maurie
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
50 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Murder, She Wrote
Hunter
Mission: Impossible
Magnum, P.I.
Daniel Boone
Due South
Inglourious Basterds
The High Chaparral
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
The Name of the Game
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Crazy like a Fox
The Mod Squad
Armour of God
Speed 2: Cruise Control
The Delta Force
Heartbreak Ridge
Frankenstein
The Snoop Sisters
Cobra
Private Obsession
Virus
Choke Canyon
Icarus
North Dallas Forty
The Great Waldo Pepper
My Sisters Kids & the Gold Diggers
The Inglorious Bastards
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Angry
Primal Rage
Walking Tall Part II
Deep Space
Double Target
Snowbeast
Man Hunt
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
Finding Grace
Non-Stop
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
Steel Frontier
Special Delivery
Gold of the Amazon Women
Thunder
Hell to Pay
Curse II: The Bite
Cheyenne
Other credits
10 credits
Ironside
The Rookies
The Commish
McCloud
Lancer
Battle of the Network Stars
Banyon
The Chicago Teddy Bears
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