Karl Swenson
Birthday
1908/07/23
Day of death
1978/10/08 (70 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
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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 industr...Read more
Acting
(1965) The Cincinnati Kid
as Mr. Rudd
(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) Vanishing Point
as Clerk
(1963) The Sword in the Stone
as Merlin (voice)
(1965) Major Dundee
as Captain Waller
(1972) Ulzana's Raid
as Rukeyser
(1959) The Hanging Tree
as Tom Flaunce
(1962) Lonely are the Brave
as Rev. Hoskins
(1962) Walk on the Wild Side
as Schmidt
(1965) The Sons of Katie Elder
as Doc Isdell
(1967) Hour of the Gun
as Dr. Charles Goodfellow
(1960) Ice Palace
as Scotty Ballantyne
(1960) Flaming Star
as Dred Pierce
(1959) No Name on the Bullet
as Stricker
(1958) Kings Go Forth
as The Colonel
(1995) Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
as (voice) (archive footage)
(1963) The Man from Galveston
as Sheriff
(1972) The New Healers
as Mr. Fisherman
(1955) Alice in Wonderland
as Humpty Dumpty
(1971) A Howling in the Woods
as Apperson
(1935) Strangers All
as Protester at Communist Meeting
(1967) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Dr. Keller
(1960) The Gallant Hours
as Bill Bailey
(1974) The Gun and the Pulpit
as Adams
(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) The Wild Country
as Jensen
(1982) Disney's Halloween Treat
as Merlin (voice) (archive footage)
(1962) The Spiral Road
as Insp. Bevers
(1957) Four Boys and a Gun
as Mr. Badek
(1977) Disney's Greatest Villains
as Merlin (voice) (archive footage)
(1990) Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea
as Merlin (archive footage) (voice)
(1960) The Andy Griffith Show
as Mr. McBeevee
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as ---
(1957) Maverick
as ---
(1957) Trackdown
as ---
(1974) Little House on the Prairie
as Lars Hanson
(1970) The Odd Couple
as Captain Potter
(1959) Mr. Lucky
as ---
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Abel Morgan
(1964) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as ---
(1963) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
as Coley Bishop
(1974) Happy Days
as ---
(1960) Surfside 6
as ---
(1968) The Mod Squad
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Axel Nielsen - Service station owner
(1957) Perry Mason
as Axel Norstaad
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Hank Luz
(1959) Hawaiian Eye
as ---
(1954) Lassie
as ---
(1971) Cannon
as ---
(1978) The Amazing Spider-Man
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Humpty Dumpty
(1967) Ironside
as Vet
(1957) Leave It to Beaver
as George Haskell
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ed Holland
(1960) Klondike
as ---
(1962) Sam Benedict
as ---
(1963) The Greatest Show on Earth
as ---
(1960) Outlaws
as ---
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1970) The Immortal
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as ---
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1967) Cimarron Strip
as ---
(1968) The Outcasts
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Morgan
(1962) The Virginian
as Col. Theodore Roosevelt
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Asmussen
(1954) Portia Faces Life
as ---
(1970) The Young Rebels
as ---
(1965) The Big Valley
as Bert Hadley
(1958) Bronco
as ---
(1967) Judd for the Defense
as ---
(1964) Profiles in Courage
as Chynoweth
(1956) The Adventures of Jim Bowie
as Andre Rochambeau
(1966) Tarzan
as ---
(1959) Black Saddle
as Dr. Wyle
(1959) Lock-Up
as ---
(1959) The Rebel
as Lew Bussey
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1963) The Dakotas
as ---
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Andy Burke
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Jim Pate
(1966) The Rat Patrol
as Colonel Seidner
(1967) The Guns of Will Sonnett
as ---
(1963) Mr. Novak
as Mr. Haskell
(1959) Riverboat
as Ansel Torgin
(1958) The Texan
as ---
(1963) The Bill Dana Show
as ---
(1966) CBS Playhouse
as ---
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as ---
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Lee Willis
(1963) The Lieutenant
as ---
(1955) Playwrights '56
as ---
(1959) Johnny Ringo
as Kramer
(1962) General Electric True
as ---
(1959) Tightrope
as ---
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Judge
(1960) The Westerner
as Ben Potts
(1957) The Court of Last Resort
as ---
(1957) The Walter Winchell File
as ---
(1973) Doc Elliot
as ---
(1972) Ghost Story
as Ed Barnes
(1972) Emergency!
as Gus
(1957) Maverick
as Captain Nares
(1957) Maverick
as Sheriff Griffin
(1960) Hong Kong
as John Olwine
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Bill Manning
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Alexi Sharlokov
(1965) The Big Valley
as Aaron Moyers
(1965) The Big Valley
as Steve Minter
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Dennis O'Hara
(1962) The Virginian
as Karl Swenson
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Raff
(1962) The Virginian
as Ben Wallace
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Hutch
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Adam
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Tabe
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Ian McGovern
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Lars Karlgren
(1955) Gunsmoke
as McGruder
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Mr. Hubert
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Lud Greening
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Will Harmon
(1965) Hogan's Heroes
as Dr. Karl Svenson
(1957) Perry Mason
as Corley Ketchum
(1957) Perry Mason
as Charles Norman
(1957) Perry Mason
as Unk Hazekian
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as John
(1966) Mission: Impossible
as Colonel Dubov
(1974) Little House on the Prairie
as Mr. Hanson
(1966) Mission: Impossible
as Dr. Ziegler
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as George Sherston