Karl Swenson

Personal Info

Birthday

July 23, 1908

Day of Death

1978-10-08

(70 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Karl Swenson

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.

Known For

Perry Mason

Little House on the Prairie

The Andy Griffith Show

Maverick

Hogan's Heroes

Hawaii Five-O

Dr. Kildare

The Fugitive

Filmography

1995
Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
as (voice) (archive footage)
1990
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Under the Sea
as Merlin (archive footage) (voice)
1982
Disney's Halloween Treat
as Merlin (voice) (archive footage)
1977
Disney's Greatest Villains
as Merlin (voice) (archive footage)
1974
The Gun and the Pulpit
as Adams
1972
Ulzana's Raid
as Rukeyser
The New Healers
as Mr. Fisherman
1971
A Howling in the Woods
as Apperson
Vanishing Point
as Clerk
1970
The Wild Country
as Jensen
Tick... Tick... Tick...
as Frank Braddock Sr.
1967
Hour of the Gun
as Dr. Charles Goodfellow
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Dr. Keller
1966
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
as Theodore Roosevelt
Seconds
as Dr. Morris
1965
The Cincinnati Kid
as Mr. Rudd
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Doc Isdell
Major Dundee
as Captain Waller
1963
The Sword in the Stone
as Merlin (voice)
The Prize
as Hilding
The Man from Galveston
as Sheriff
The Birds
as Drunken Doomsayer in Diner
1962
How the West Was Won
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
The Spiral Road
as Insp. Bevers
Lonely are the Brave
as Rev. Hoskins
Walk on the Wild Side
as Schmidt
1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Heinrich Geuter
1960
Flaming Star
as Dred Pierce
North to Alaska
as Lars Nordqvist
One Foot in Hell
as Sheriff Ole Olson
The Gallant Hours
as Bill Bailey
Ice Palace
as Scotty Ballantyne
1959
The Hanging Tree
as Tom Flaunce
No Name on the Bullet
as Stricker
1958
Gateways to the Mind
as Hal - the Cameraman (uncredited)
Kings Go Forth
as The Colonel
1957
Four Boys and a Gun
as Mr. Badek
1955
Alice in Wonderland
as Humpty Dumpty
1943
December 7th
as Machine-Gunner (uncredited)
1935
Strangers All
as Protester at Communist Meeting