As of July 2026, Bo Svenson is best known for Ironside and Magnum, P.I.. Find every show and movie Bo Svenson has starred in — and where to watch them — below.
Bo Svenson

Bo Svenson

Actor Born 1941 Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden 3 TV Shows 8 Movies

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 1920's 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 short-lived 1981 television series of the same name.[5]

One of his most famous roles in films was as murder-witness-turned-vigilante Michael McBain in the 1976 cult classic Breaking Point. He played the Soviet agent Ivan in the Magnum, P.I. 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.

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Alongside acting, Bo Svenson is also known as a director, producer, writer.

Bo Svenson's most notable role to date came in Inglourious Basterds (2009), where he played American Colonel. He also appeared in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) as Reverend Harmony. Most recently appeared in Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) as Captain Pollard.

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📺 Bo Svenson's TV Shows

Ironside
1967
Magnum, P.I.
Ivan
1980
Due South
Holloway Muldoon
1994

🎬 Bo Svenson's Movies

Inglourious Basterds
American Colonel
2009
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Reverend Harmony
2004
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Reverend Harmony
2011
Private Obsession
Sam Weston
1995
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Captain Pollard
1997
Heartbreak Ridge
Roy Jennings
1986
The Delta Force
Capt. Campbell
1986
Choke Canyon
Capt. Oliver Parkside
1986

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