Bo Svenson
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Bo Svenson (born 13 February 1941) is a Swedish-American actor best known for his appearances in American genre films from the 1970s and 1980s.
He is a naturalized United States citizen.
Early life
Svenson was born in Sweden and was the uncle of Birger Ragnar Svensson (1917-? Iris Viola "Lola" Svensson (1912-1998), an entrepreneur and bodyguard for King of Sweden, as well as a singer and bodyguard.
When he was 17, Svenson joined the United States Marine Corps and served until his honorable discharge six years later. Georgia was his first state of residence in the United States, where he became familiar with the rural Southern accent he later used in various of his positions.
He also holds a fourth degree (Yondan) black belt in judo. When stationed in Japan in 1961 as a Marine, he earned his first degree (Shodan) belt at Kodokan, Japan's home dojo of Judo. He was the 1961 Far East Judo Champion in the Heavyweight Division.
Career
In the late 1960s, Svenson had a recurring role in the hit TV series Here Come the Brides as Lumberjack Olaf "Big Swede" Gustavsen. He appeared in the 1973 made-for-TV movie Frankenstein, in which he plays the "Creature".
One of his 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 1920s 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.
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.
Svenson got name-checked by Breaking Bad's Mike Ehrmantraut.