Bo Svenson

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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...

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Murder, She WroteSeries • 1984Magnum, P.I.Series • 1980IronsideSeries • 1967Mission: ImpossibleSeries • 1966Daniel BooneSeries • 1964Due SouthSeries • 1994HunterSeries • 1984Inglourious BasterdsMovie • 2009The High ChaparralSeries • 1967The Name of the GameSeries • 1968The RookiesSeries • 1972Kill Bill: Vol. 2Movie • 2004Kung Fu: The Legend ContinuesSeries • 1993McCloudSeries • 1970The CommishSeries • 1991Crazy like a FoxSeries • 1984The Mod SquadSeries • 1968LancerSeries • 1968Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody AffairMovie • 2011Battle of the Network StarsSeries • 1976Speed 2: Cruise ControlMovie • 1997Armour of GodMovie • 1986CobraSeries • 1993Heartbreak RidgeMovie • 1986