Bo Svenson
Acting • Born 1941-02-13
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.
Filmography
101 credits
Heartbreak Ridge
Movie • 1986
Roy Jennings
Frankenstein
Movie • 1973
Monster
The Inglorious Bastards
Movie • 1978
Lt. Robert Yeager
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
Movie • 1985
Kor
Beyond the Door III
Movie • 1989
Professor Andromolek
Deep Space
Movie • 1988
Captain Robertson
Icarus
Movie • 2010
Vadim
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Movie • 1987
Maurice Fronenac
Virus
Movie • 1980
Major Carter
Heartless
Movie • 1997
Sheriff Sam
The 7 Adventures of Sinbad
Movie • 2010
Simon Magnusson
The Delta Force
Movie • 1986
Capt. Campbell
Inglourious Basterds
Movie • 2009
American Colonel
Baboon Bite Maniacs! - "Primal Rage" 35 Years Later
Movie • 2023
Himself
Steel Frontier
Movie • 1995
Roy Ackett
Snowbeast
Movie • 1977
Gar Seberg
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
Movie • 1981
Detective Joe Carlson
Breaking Point
Movie • 1976
Michael McBain
The Great Waldo Pepper
Movie • 1975
Axel Olsson
Walking Tall Part II
Movie • 1975
Buford Pusser
White Phantom
Movie • 1987
The Colonel
Choke Canyon
Movie • 1986
Capt. Oliver Parkside
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
Movie • 1977
Buford Pusser
Delta Force Commando
Movie • 1987
Col. Keitel
Soda Cracker
Movie • 1989
Ivan Moss
Double Target
Movie • 1987
Col. Galckin
Crackerjack 3
Movie • 2000
Jack Thorn
Special Delivery
Movie • 1976
Jack Murdock
Man Hunt
Movie • 1984
Sheriff
Thunder
Movie • 1983
Sheriff Bill Cook
Gold of the Amazon Women
Movie • 1979
Tom Jensen
I'll Be Seeing You
Movie • 2004
Philip Carter
Thunder II
Movie • 1987
Sheriff Roger
Private Obsession
Movie • 1995
Sam Weston
Soldier of Fortune
Movie • 1990
Colonel Preston
Maniac Killer
Movie • 1987
Count Silvano
Deadly Impact
Movie • 1984
George Ryan
Jan & Dean: On the Run
Movie • 1966
Smithsonian Guard
Hitched
Movie • 1973
Jay Appleby
Cheyenne
Movie • 1996
Captain Starrett
Three Days to a Kill
Movie • 1992
Rick
Solitude Point
Movie • 1998
Richard
The Son of the Sheik
Movie • 1978
Hamilton Burger
Brothers in Blood
Movie • 1987
The Dependables
Movie • 2014
Mick Skinner
Steele's Law
Movie • 1991
Sheriff Barnes
Curse II: The Bite
Movie • 1989
The Sheriff
Target Risk
Movie • 1975
Lee Driscoll
Non-Stop
Movie • 2013
Dr. Halperin
Savage Land
Movie • 1994
Jeb
Primal Rage
Movie • 1988
Ethridge
Movie in Action
Movie • 1987
Hell to Pay
Movie • 2005
Del Shannon
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Movie • 1997
Captain Pollard
My Sisters Kids & the Gold Diggers
Movie • 2015
John
North Dallas Forty
Movie • 1979
Jo Bob Priddy
Portrait of a Hitman
Movie • 1979
Dr. Bob Michaels
Stolz der Nation
Movie • 2009
Benjamin Palme
Maurie
Movie • 1973
Jack Twyman
The Bravos
Movie • 1972
Raeder
Tides of War
Movie • 1990
SS Colonel Otto Haber
Outlaw
Movie • 2001
Detective Maize
Angry
Movie • 2010
Bill
Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
Movie • 2008
Foreman Bo
The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
Movie • 1979
Fabien
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Movie • 2004
Reverend Harmony
Jersey Justice
Movie • 2014
W.W. Tolliver
Finding Grace
Movie • 2020
Dr. Nelson
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Movie • 2011
Reverend Harmony
Jealousy
Movie • 1984
Jesse Hutton
Intertect
Movie • 1973
Raising Jeffrey Dahmer
Movie • 2006
Detective John Amos
Sverige åt svenskarna
Movie • 1980
You'll Never See Me Again
Movie • 1973
Sam (uncredited)
Armour of God
Movie • 1986
Monk (uncredited)
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Ivan
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Karl Anderson
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
TV • 1993
Ben Kinasay
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Pike
The Commish
TV • 1991
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Karl
Hunter
TV • 1984
Sheriff Jake Cutter
Ironside
TV • 1967
Crazy like a Fox
TV • 1984
Chuck Dobson
Battle of the Network Stars
TV • 1976
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Warren Haskins
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Bennett
The Chicago Teddy Bears
TV • 1971
Lancer
TV • 1968
McCloud
TV • 1970
Banyon
TV • 1972
Walking Tall
TV • 1981
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Cal Harding
America's National Treasures
TV • 2010
Narrator
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
G.B. Mosbie
Due South
TV • 1994
Holloway Muldoon
Cobra
TV • 1993
Frank McLory
The Snoop Sisters
TV • 1973
Chet Marion