Bo Svenson

Bo Svenson born February 13 1941 is a Swedishborn American actor 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 madeforTV movie Frankenstein in which he plays the Creature One of Svensons first bigscreen movie roles was opposite Robert Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper where Redford and Svenson play rival exWWI US 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 shortlived 1981 television series of the same name5 One of his most famous roles in films was as murderwitnessturnedvigilante Michael McBain in the 1976 cult classic Breaking Point He played the Soviet agent Ivan in the Magnum PI 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Svenson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia