Bo Svenson

Not to be confused with Danish football player Bo Svensson.

Bo Svenson is a Swedish-born American actor, known for his roles in American genre films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Biography

Early life

Svenson was born in Sweden to 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. He emigrated to the United States and then, when he was 17, served in the U.S. Marine Corps until his discharge six years later.

He also holds a third degree black belt in judo. He was the 1961 Far East Judo Champion in the Heavyweight Division.

Career

In the mid-1970s, he took over the role of Joe Don Baker from lawman Buford Pusser 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.

Svenson also played the Soviet agent Ivan in the Magnum, P.I. episode "Did You See the Sunrise?" (1982). Svenson has a cameo as an American colonel in Inglourious Basterds, as a tribute to his role in The Inglorious Bastards.

Filmography

• The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
• Walking Tall, Part 2 (1975)
• Portrait of a Hitman (1977)
• Walking Tall: Final Chapter (1977)
• The Inglorious Bastards (1977)
• Snowbeast (1977)
• North Dallas Forty (1979)
• Sverige åt svenskarna (1980)
• Virus (1980)
• Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985)
• The Delta Force (1986)
• Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
• White Phantom (1987)
• Armour of God (1987)
• Deep Space (1988)
• Steel Frontier (1995)
• Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
• Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004)
• Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (2006)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Icarus (2010)
• The 7 Adventures of Sinbad (2010)

References

• Bo Svenson — Actor, Director, Producer, Writer. Web. 26 Feb. 2012.

External links

• Bo Svenson at the Internet Movie Database