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Karl Swenson

Karl Swenson
  • Name: Karl Swenson
  • Birthday: 1908-07-23
  • Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
  • Popularity: 10.672
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 industry in 1943 with two wartime documentary shorts, December 7 and The Sikorsky Helicopter, followed by more than thirty-five roles in feature films and television movies. No Name on the Bullet (1959)... Read More

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Title Release date
Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind   as  (voice) (archive footage) 1995-07-21
Disney's Halloween Treat   as  Merlin (voice) (archive footage) 1982-10-30
The Gun and the Pulpit   as  Adams 1974-04-03
Ulzana's Raid   as  Rukeyser 1972-10-27
The New Healers   as  Mr. Fisherman 1972-03-27
A Howling in the Woods   as  Apperson 1971-11-05
Vanishing Point   as  Clerk 1971-01-15
The Wild Country   as  Jensen 1970-12-16
Tick... Tick... Tick...   as  Frank Braddock Sr. 1970-01-09
Hour of the Gun   as  Dr. Charles Goodfellow 1967-11-01
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night   as  Dr. Keller 1967-10-17
Brighty of the Grand Canyon   as  Theodore Roosevelt 1966-11-24
Seconds   as  Dr. Morris 1966-10-05
The Cincinnati Kid   as  Mr. Rudd 1965-10-15
The Sons of Katie Elder   as  Doc Isdell 1965-06-23
Major Dundee   as  Captain Waller 1965-04-07
The Prize   as  Hilding 1963-12-25
The Sword in the Stone   as  Merlin (voice) 1963-12-25
The Man from Galveston   as  Sheriff 1963-12-18
The Birds   as  Drunken Doomsayer in Diner 1963-03-28
How the West Was Won   as  Train Conductor (uncredited) 1962-11-02
The Spiral Road   as  Insp. Bevers 1962-08-03
Lonely are the Brave   as  Rev. Hoskins 1962-05-24
Pericles on 31st Street   as  Louie DeBella 1962-04-12
Walk on the Wild Side   as  Schmidt 1962-03-21
Judgment at Nuremberg   as  Heinrich Geuter 1961-12-18
Flaming Star   as  Dred Pierce 1960-12-20
North to Alaska   as  Lars Nordqvist 1960-11-07
One Foot in Hell   as  Sheriff Ole Olson 1960-09-11
The Gallant Hours   as  Bill Bailey 1960-06-13
Ice Palace   as  Scotty Ballantyne 1960-01-02
The Hanging Tree   as  Tom Flaunce 1959-02-19
No Name on the Bullet   as  Stricker 1959-02-01
Gateways to the Mind   as  Hal - the Cameraman (uncredited) 1958-10-23
Kings Go Forth   as  The Colonel 1958-06-28
Four Boys and a Gun   as  Mr. Badek 1957-01-11
Alice in Wonderland   as  Humpty Dumpty 1955-10-22
December 7th   as  Machine-Gunner (uncredited) 1943-03-01
Strangers All   as  Protester at Communist Meeting 1935-04-01