Bo Svenson

Bo Svenson

1941-02-13

Biography

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.

Also appears in

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

8.2

The Delta Force

The Delta Force

5.9

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Speed 2: Cruise Control

4.6

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

7.9

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

8.0

Heartbreak Ridge

Heartbreak Ridge

6.9

Virus

Virus

6.3

Private Obsession

Private Obsession

4.0

Finding Grace

Finding Grace

5.5

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

4.9

The Inglorious Bastards

The Inglorious Bastards

6.2

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

6.7

Stolz der Nation

Stolz der Nation

6.9

Icarus

Icarus

4.8

The 7 Adventures of Sinbad

The 7 Adventures of Sinbad

3.6

Beyond the Door III

Beyond the Door III

4.6

Snowbeast

Snowbeast

4.2

The Great Waldo Pepper

The Great Waldo Pepper

6.4

Gold of the Amazon Women

Gold of the Amazon Women

3.6

Steel Frontier

Steel Frontier

5.0