Karl Swenson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-07-23 (70 years old)

Deathday

1978-10-08

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Karl Swenson

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karl Swenson (July 23, 1908 – October 8, 1978) was an American theatre, radio, film, and television actor. Early in his career, he was credited as Peter Wayne Swenson was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Swedish parentage. Planning to be a doctor, he enrolled at Marietta College and undertook pre-medical studies but left that field to pursue acting. Swenson appeared extensively on the radio from the 1930s through the 1950s. Swenson entered the film industry in 1943 with two wartime documentary shorts, December 7 and The Sikorsky Helicopter, followed by more than thirty-five roles in feature films and te...

Acting

1965

1963

The Birds

as Drunken Doomsayer in Diner

1961

Judgment at Nuremberg

as Heinrich Geuter

1963

The Prize

as Hilding

1966

Seconds

as Dr. Morris

1960

North to Alaska

as Lars Nordqvist

1971

1963

The Sword in the Stone

as Merlin (voice)

1965

Major Dundee

as Captain Waller

1972

Ulzana's Raid

as Rukeyser

1962

Lonely are the Brave

as Rev. Hoskins

1959

The Hanging Tree

as Tom Flaunce

1962

1965

1967

Hour of the Gun

as Dr. Charles Goodfellow

1960

Ice Palace

as Scotty Ballantyne

1960

Flaming Star

as Dred Pierce

1959

1958

Kings Go Forth

as The Colonel

1995

1972

The New Healers

as Mr. Fisherman

1955

Alice in Wonderland

as Humpty Dumpty

1971

1935

Strangers All

as Protester at Communist Meeting

1960

The Gallant Hours

as Bill Bailey

1970

Tick... Tick... Tick...

as Frank Braddock Sr.

1960

One Foot in Hell

as Sheriff Ole Olson

1958

Gateways to the Mind

as Hal - the Cameraman (uncredited)

1966

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

as Theodore Roosevelt

1962

How the West Was Won

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

1943

December 7th

as Machine-Gunner (uncredited)

1970

1982

Disney's Halloween Treat

as Merlin (voice) (archive footage)

1962

The Spiral Road

as Insp. Bevers

1957

1977

Disney's Greatest Villains

as Merlin (voice) (archive footage)

1990

Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea

as Merlin (archive footage) (voice)

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