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Bo Svenson

 
Actor: Bo Svenson
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  • Born: Feb 13, 1942 in Goteborg, Sweden
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Action, Drama
  • Career Highlights: The Great Waldo Pepper, Mary Higgins Clark's I'll Be Seeing You, Night Warning
  • First Major Screen Credit: Frankenstein (1973)

Biography

Born in Sweden, Bo Svenson moved to the U.S. at the age of 17. Before settling upon an acting career, the husky Svenson attended UCLA, served in the Marines for six years, then worked as a hockey player, race-car driver and 3rd Degree Black Belt judo champ. His first regular TV work was on the 1968 western series Here Come the Brides, in which he was cast to type as Big Swede (though by this time, he had lost all vestiges of his Scandinavian accent). After an impressive movie debut in the little-seen Maury (1974), Svenson was second-billed as Alex Olsson, competitor-cum-partner of barnstorming aviator Robert Redford, in The Great Waldo Pepper (1973). When Joe Don Baker, star of the 1973 sleeper Walking Tall, passed on the opportunity to play Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1975 sequel, Svenson inherited the role; he would portray Pusser in both Part 2: Walking Tall (1975) and The Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977), then repeated the assignment in the 1981 Walking Tall TV series. Perhaps someday, Bo Svenson will escape the sleazoid actioners in which he is usually starred, and receive a screen role worthy of his talents. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Not to be confused with Danish football player Bo Svensson.
Bo Svenson
Born Boris Lee Holder Svenson
February 13, 1941 (1941-02-13) (age 68)[1]
Gothenburg, Sweden
Occupation Actor
Years active 1967—present

Bo Svenson (born February 13, 1941)[1] is a Swedish-born American actor, known for his roles in American genre films of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Biography

Early life

Svenson was born Boris Lee Holder Svenson[citation needed] in Göteborg, Sweden, the son of Lola Iris Viola (née Johansson), a big band leader, actress, and singer, and Birger Ragnar Svenson, a personal driver, athlete, and bodyguard for the King of Sweden.[2][1] Having emigrated to the United States in 1958, as a teenager, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1959–1965. After the Marines, he pursued a Ph.D. in metaphysics and attended UCLA.

Career

In the mid-1970s, he took over the role (from Joe Don Baker) of lawman Buford Pusser in both sequels to the hit 1973 film Walking Tall. While the sequels were less successful than the original, he reprised the role again for the short-lived 1981 television series of the same name — a show for which he was the highest paid television actor at the time. Svenson also played the sadistic Soviet agent Ivan in the Magnum, P.I. episode Did You See the Sunrise? (1982), which many fans consider to be one of the long-running show's best episodes. Svenson has a cameo as an American colonel in Inglourious Basterds, as a tribute to his role in The Inglorious Bastards.[3]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c Bo Svenson Biography (1941-)
  2. ^ Bo Svenson - Actor, Director, Producer, Writer
  3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/fullcredits#cast

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