Bo Svenson
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-02-13 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Also known As
Benjamin Palme
Bo Svensson
Bo Svenson
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 hard and dangerous but wildly adventurous lives of ...
Acting
1986
as Roy Jennings
1973
as Monster
1978
as Lt. Robert Yeager
1985
1989
as Professor Andromolek
1988
as Captain Robertson
2010
as Vadim
1987
as Maurice Fronenac
1980
as Major Carter
1997
as Sheriff Sam
2010
as Simon Magnusson
1986
as Capt. Campbell
2009
as American Colonel
1995
as Roy Ackett
1977
as Gar Seberg
1981
as Detective Joe Carlson
1976
as Michael McBain
1975
as Axel Olsson
1975
as Buford Pusser
1987
as The Colonel
1986
as Capt. Oliver Parkside
1977
as Buford Pusser
1987
as Col. Keitel
1989
as Ivan Moss
1987
as Col. Galckin
2000
as Jack Thorn
1976
as Jack Murdock
1984
as Sheriff
1983
as Sheriff Bill Cook
1979
as Tom Jensen
2004
as Philip Carter
1987
as Sheriff Roger
1995
as Sam Weston
1990
as Colonel Preston
1987
as Count Silvano
1984
as George Ryan
1966
as Smithsonian Guard
1971
as Jay Appleby
1996
as Captain Starrett
1992
as Rick
1998
as Richard
1978
as Hamilton Burger
2014
as Mick Skinner
1991
as Sheriff Barnes
1989
as The Sheriff
1975
as Lee Driscoll
2013
as Dr. Halperin
1994
as Jeb
1988
as Ethridge
1987
2005
as Del Shannon
1997
as Captain Pollard
2015
1979
as Jo Bob Priddy
1979
as Dr. Bob Michaels
2009
as Benjamin Palme
1973
as Jack Twyman
1972
as Raeder
1990
as SS Colonel Otto Haber
2001
as Detective Maize
2010
as Bill
2008
as Foreman Bo
1979
2004
as Reverend Harmony
2014
as W.W. Tolliver
2020
as Dr. Nelson
2011
as Reverend Harmony
1984
as Jesse Hutton
1973
2006
as Detective John Amos
1973
as Sam (uncredited)
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