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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 13, 1941
Place of Birth
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Also Known As
- Benjamin Palme
- Bo Svensson
Bo Svenson
1.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.0
Himself
Baboon Bite Maniacs! - "Primal Rage" 35 Years Later
2023
5.7
Dr. Nelson
Finding Grace
2020
5.6
John
My Sisters Kids & the Gold Diggers
2015
🎬
0.0
W.W. Tolliver
Jersey Justice
2014
3.1
Mick Skinner
The Dependables
2014
5.7
Dr. Halperin
Non-Stop
2013
8.0
Reverend Harmony
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011
0.0
Bill
Angry
2010
10.0
Narrator
America's National Treasures
2010
3.5
Simon Magnusson
The 7 Adventures of Sinbad
2010
Credits
Baboon Bite Maniacs! - "Primal Rage" 35 Years Later
as Himself
2023
0.0
Finding Grace
as Dr. Nelson
2020
5.7
My Sisters Kids & the Gold Diggers
as John
2015
5.6
🎬
Jersey Justice
as W.W. Tolliver
2014
0.0
The Dependables
as Mick Skinner
2014
3.1
Non-Stop
as Dr. Halperin
2013
5.7
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
as Reverend Harmony
2011
8.0
Angry
as Bill
2010
0.0
America's National Treasures
as Narrator
2010
10.0
The 7 Adventures of Sinbad
as Simon Magnusson
2010
3.5
Icarus
as Vadim
2010
4.8
Stolz der Nation
as Benjamin Palme
2009
6.8
Inglourious Basterds
as American Colonel
2009
8.2
Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
as Foreman Bo
2008
3.5
Raising Jeffrey Dahmer
as Detective John Amos
2006
5.3
Hell to Pay
as Del Shannon
2005
6.3
I'll Be Seeing You
as Philip Carter
2004
4.7
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
as Reverend Harmony
2004
7.9
Outlaw
as Detective Maize
2001
4.7
Crackerjack 3
as Jack Thorn
2000
1.8
🎬
Solitude Point
as Richard
1998
0.0
Heartless
as Sheriff Sam
1997
3.3
Speed 2: Cruise Control
as Captain Pollard
1997
4.6
Cheyenne
as Captain Starrett
1996
4.1
Steel Frontier
as Roy Ackett
1995
4.7
Private Obsession
as Sam Weston
1995
4.2
Due South
as Holloway Muldoon
1994
7.6
Savage Land
as Jeb
1994
1.0
Cobra
as Frank McLory
1993
6.6
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
as Ben Kinasay
1993
6.7
Three Days to a Kill
as Rick
1992
3.5
The Commish
1991
7.1
Steele's Law
as Sheriff Barnes
1991
3.3
Soldier of Fortune
as Colonel Preston
1990
4.8
Tides of War
as SS Colonel Otto Haber
1990
6.0
Beyond the Door III
as Professor Andromolek
1989
4.6
Curse II: The Bite
as The Sheriff
1989
5.1
Soda Cracker
as Ivan Moss
1989
5.9
Primal Rage
as Ethridge
1988
5.2
Deep Space
as Captain Robertson
1988
4.4
Delta Force Commando
as Col. Keitel
1987
4.0
Maniac Killer
as Count Silvano
1987
3.4
White Phantom
as The Colonel
1987
4.9
Double Target
as Col. Galckin
1987
4.2
Brothers in Blood
1987
5.0
Thunder II
as Sheriff Roger
1987
4.5
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
as Maurice Fronenac
1987
5.0
Movie in Action
1987
3.0
Heartbreak Ridge
as Roy Jennings
1986
6.9
Choke Canyon
as Capt. Oliver Parkside
1986
4.9
The Delta Force
as Capt. Campbell
1986
5.9
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
as Kor
1985
3.1
Crazy like a Fox
as Chuck Dobson
1984
7.1
Man Hunt
as Sheriff
1984
4.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Karl Anderson
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Cal Harding
1984
7.5
Hunter
as Sheriff Jake Cutter
1984
7.1
Deadly Impact
as George Ryan
1984
4.7
Jealousy
as Jesse Hutton
1984
2.7
Thunder
as Sheriff Bill Cook
1983
5.0
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
as Detective Joe Carlson
1981
6.6
Walking Tall
1981
5.7
Magnum, P.I.
as Ivan
1980
7.3
Sverige åt svenskarna
1980
2.3
Virus
as Major Carter
1980
6.3
North Dallas Forty
as Jo Bob Priddy
1979
6.6
Portrait of a Hitman
as Dr. Bob Michaels
1979
4.2
Gold of the Amazon Women
as Tom Jensen
1979
3.2
The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
as Fabien
1979
0.0
The Son of the Sheik
as Hamilton Burger
1978
5.4
The Inglorious Bastards
as Lt. Robert Yeager
1978
6.3
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
1977
5.1
Snowbeast
as Gar Seberg
1977
4.2
Battle of the Network Stars
1976
6.0
Special Delivery
as Jack Murdock
1976
5.2
Breaking Point
as Michael McBain
1976
6.0
Walking Tall Part II
as Buford Pusser
1975
5.3
The Great Waldo Pepper
as Axel Olsson
1975
6.5
Target Risk
as Lee Driscoll
1975
0.0
The Snoop Sisters
as Chet Marion
1973
7.2
🎬
Maurie
as Jack Twyman
1973
0.0
Hitched
as Jay Appleby
1973
6.0
Intertect
1973
0.0
You'll Never See Me Again
as Sam (uncredited)
1973
7.0
Frankenstein
as Monster
1973
6.9
Kung Fu
as Pike
1972
7.7
Banyon
1972
7.0
The Rookies
1972
6.8
The Bravos
as Raeder
1972
5.7
🎬
The Chicago Teddy Bears
1971
5.5
McCloud
1970
7.1
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
Lancer
1968
4.7
The Name of the Game
as G.B. Mosbie
1968
6.8
The High Chaparral
as Bennett
1967
6.6
Ironside
1967
6.8
Mission: Impossible
as Karl
1966
7.6
Jan & Dean: On the Run
as Smithsonian Guard
1966
0.0
Daniel Boone
as Warren Haskins
1964
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5