Bo Svenson
74 movies · 25 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 13, 1941 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
- Also known as
- Benjamin Palme · Bo Svensson
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.
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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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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 8.2 Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Film
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★ 7.9 Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · Film
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★ 4.6 Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997 · Film
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★ 8.1 Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Film
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★ 6.9 Heartbreak Ridge
1986 · Film
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★ 7.0 Armour of God
1986 · Film
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★ 6.0 The Delta Force
1986 · Film
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★ 7.5 Murder, She Wrote
1984 · TV
Bo Svenson: movies and TV shows
Acting (99)
- 2020 Finding Grace
as Dr. Nelson
- 2015
- 2014 Jersey Justice
as W.W. Tolliver
- 2014 The Dependables
as Mick Skinner
- 2013 Non-Stop
as Dr. Halperin
- 2011 Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
as Reverend Harmony
- 2010 Angry
as Bill
- 2010
- 2010 The 7 Adventures of Sinbad
as Simon Magnusson
- 2010 Icarus
as Vadim
- 2009 Stolz der Nation
as Benjamin Palme
- 2009 Inglourious Basterds
as American Colonel
- 2008 Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
as Foreman Bo
- 2006 Raising Jeffrey Dahmer
as Detective John Amos
- 2005 Hell to Pay
as Del Shannon
- 2004 I'll Be Seeing You
as Philip Carter
- 2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2
as Reverend Harmony
- 2001 Outlaw
as Detective Maize
- 2000 Crackerjack 3
as Jack Thorn
- 1998 Solitude Point
as Richard
- 1997 Heartless
as Sheriff
- 1997 Speed 2: Cruise Control
as Captain Pollard
- 1996 Cheyenne
as Captain Starrett
- 1995 Steel Frontier
as Roy Ackett
- 1995 Private Obsession
as Sam Weston
- 1994
- 1994 Savage Land
as Jeb
- 1993
- 1993
- 1992 Three Days to a Kill
as Rick
- 1991
- 1991 Steele's Law
as Sheriff Barnes
- 1990 Soldier of Fortune
as Colonel Preston
- 1990 Tides of War
as SS Colonel Otto Haber
- 1989 Beyond the Door III
as Professor Andromolek
- 1989 Curse II: The Bite
as The Sheriff
- 1989 Soda Cracker
as Ivan Moss
- 1988 Primal Rage
as Ethridge
- 1988 Deep Space
as Captain Robertson
- 1987 Delta Force Commando
as Col. Keitel
- 1987 Maniac Killer
as Count Silvano
- 1987 White Phantom
as The Colonel
- 1987 Double Target
as Col. Galckin
- 1987
- 1987 Thunder 2
as Sheriff Roger
- 1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
as Maurice Fronenac
- 1987
- 1986 Heartbreak Ridge
as Roy Jennings
- 1986 Armour of God
as Monk (uncredited)
- 1986 Choke Canyon
as Capt. Oliver Parkside
- 1986 The Delta Force
as Capt. Campbell
- 1985 Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
as Kor
- 1984
- 1984 Man Hunt
as Sheriff
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984 Deadly Impact
as George Ryan
- 1984 Jealousy
as Jesse Hutton
- 1983 Thunder
as Sheriff Bill Cook
- 1981 Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
as Detective Joe Carlson
- 1981
- 1980
- 1980
- 1980 Virus
as Major Carter
- 1979 North Dallas Forty
as Jo Bob Priddy
- 1979 Portrait of a Hitman
as Dr. Bob Michaels
- 1979 Gold of the Amazon Women
as Tom Jensen
- 1979 The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
as Fabien
- 1978 The Son of the Sheik
as Hamilton Burger
- 1978 The Inglorious Bastards
as Lt. Robert Yeager
- 1977 Final Chapter: Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
- 1977 Snowbeast
as Gar Seberg
- 1976
- 1976 Special Delivery
as Jack Murdock
- 1976 Breaking Point
as Michael McBain
- 1975 Walking Tall Part II
as Buford Pusser
- 1975 The Great Waldo Pepper
as Axel Olsson
- 1975 Target Risk
as Lee Driscoll
- 1973
- 1973 Maurie
as Jack Twyman
- 1973 Hitched
as Jay Appleby
- 1973
- 1973 You'll Never See Me Again
as Sam (uncredited)
- 1973 Frankenstein
as Monster
- 1973
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 The Bravos
as Raeder
- 1971
- 1970
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1966 Jan & Dean: On the Run
as Smithsonian Guard
- 1964
Behind the camera (1)
- 2001 Outlaw
Director, Screenplay
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 2023
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1 episode