
Bo Svenson
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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 h…
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Benjamin Palme · Bo Svensson
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Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · TV

Ironside
1967 · TV

Murder, She Wrote
1984 · TV

Magnum, P.I.
1980 · TV

Hunter
1984 · TV

Mission: Impossible
1966 · TV

Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Movie

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993 · TV

Daniel Boone
1964 · TV

Due South
1994 · TV

The Name of the Game
1968 · TV

The High Chaparral
1967 · TV