Bo Svenson
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Born in Sweden, Bo Svenson moved to the U.S. at the age of 17. Before settling upon an acting career, the husky Svenson attended UCLA, served in the Marines for six years, then worked as a hockey player, race-car driver and 3rd Degree Black Belt judo champ. His first regular TV work was on the 1968 western series Here Come the Brides, in which he was cast to type as Big Swede (though by this time, he had lost all vestiges of his Scandinavian accent). After an impressive movie debut in the little-seen Maury (1974), Svenson was second-billed as Alex Olsson, competitor-cum-partner of barnstorming aviator Robert Redford, in The Great Waldo Pepper (1973). When Joe Don Baker, star of the 1973 sleeper Walking Tall, passed on the opportunity to play Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1975 sequel, Svenson inherited the role; he would portray Pusser in both Part 2: Walking Tall (1975) and The Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977), then repeated the assignment in the 1981 Walking Tall TV series. Perhaps someday, Bo Svenson will escape the sleazoid actioners in which he is usually starred, and receive a screen role worthy of his talents.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Jersey Justice |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Angry |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Pride of Lions (The Dependables) |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The 7 Adventures of Sinbad |
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— | 2010 |
89% | Inglourious Basterds |
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$120.6M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Icarus (Dolph Lundgren is The Killing Machine) |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Raising Jeffrey Dahmer |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Chinaman's Chance (I Am Somebody) |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | I'll Be Seeing You |
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— | 2004 |
84% | Kill Bill: Volume 2 |
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— | 2004 |
85% | Kill Bill: Volume 1 |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Cheyenne |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Crackerjack 3 |
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— | 2000 |
4% | Speed 2 - Cruise Control |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Heartless |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Steel Frontier |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Private Obsession (Watch Me) |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Steele's Law |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Three Days to a Kill |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Primal Rage |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Tides of War |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Andy Colby's Incredibly Awesome Adventure |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | The Kill Reflex |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Beyond the Door III |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Delta Force Commando |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Curse II: The Bite |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Deep Space |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Savage Attack |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | White Phantom: Enemy of Darkness |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Thunder Warrior 2 |
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— | 1987 |
70% | Heartbreak Ridge |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | The Manhunt |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Choke Canyon |
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— | 1986 |
17% | The Delta Force |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Wizards of the Lost Kingdom |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Deadly Impact |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Jealousy |
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— | 1984 |
92% | Night Warning |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Thunder Warrior |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Drug Traffickers |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Fukkatsu no hi (Day of Resurrection) (The End) (Virus) |
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— | 1980 |
84% | North Dallas Forty |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Gold of the Amazon Women |
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— | 1979 |
100% | Quel maledetto treno blindato (The Inglorious Bastards) |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Final Chapter---Walking Tall |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Snowbeast |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Breaking Point |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Special Delivery |
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— | 1976 |
67% | The Great Waldo Pepper |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Part 2 Walking Tall |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Maurie |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Big Mo |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Frankenstein |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The Italian Connection |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Bravos |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Hitched |
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— | 1971 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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JAG
1995-2005
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No Score Yet |
Due South
1994-1998
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
The Commish
1991-1996
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No Score Yet |
Hunter
1984-1991
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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No Score Yet |
Kung Fu
1972-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
The High Chaparral
1967-1971
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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Quotes from Bo Svenson's Characters
Capt. Pollard: | "run people, RUN!" |
Capt. Pollard: | Run people, RUN! |