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Bo Svenson
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 la…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Svenson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2023
Baboon Bite Maniacs! - "Primal Rage" 35 Years Later
Movie Himself
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2020
Finding Grace
Movie Dr. Nelson
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2015
My Sisters Kids & the Gold Diggers
Movie John
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2014
Jersey Justice
Movie W.W. Tolliver
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2014
The Dependables
Movie Mick Skinner
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2013
Non-Stop
Movie Dr. Halperin
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2011
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Movie Reverend Harmony
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2010
Angry
Movie Bill
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2010
America's National Treasures
TV show Narrator
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2010
The 7 Adventures of Sinbad
Movie Simon Magnusson
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2010
Icarus
Movie Vadim
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2009
Stolz der Nation
Movie Benjamin Palme
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2009
Inglourious Basterds
Movie American Colonel
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2008
Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
Movie Foreman Bo
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2006
Raising Jeffrey Dahmer
Movie Detective John Amos
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2005
Hell to Pay
Movie Del Shannon
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2004
I'll Be Seeing You
Movie Philip Carter
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2004
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Movie Reverend Harmony
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2001
Outlaw
Movie Detective Maize
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2000
Crackerjack 3
Movie Jack Thorn
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1998
Solitude Point
Movie Richard
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1997
Heartless
Movie Sheriff Sam
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1997
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Movie Captain Pollard
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1996
Cheyenne
Movie Captain Starrett
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1995
Steel Frontier
Movie Roy Ackett
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1995
Private Obsession
Movie Sam Weston
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1994
Due South
TV show Holloway Muldoon
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1994
Savage Land
Movie Jeb
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1993
Cobra
TV show Frank McLory
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1993
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
TV show Ben Kinasay
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1992
Three Days to a Kill
Movie Rick
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1991
The Commish
TV show
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1991
Steele's Law
Movie Sheriff Barnes
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1990
Soldier of Fortune
Movie Colonel Preston
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1990
Tides of War
Movie SS Colonel Otto Haber
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1989
Beyond the Door III
Movie Professor Andromolek
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1989
Curse II: The Bite
Movie The Sheriff
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1989
Soda Cracker
Movie Ivan Moss
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1988
Primal Rage
Movie Ethridge
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1988
Deep Space
Movie Captain Robertson
