An award-winning actor, writer, producer and director, Bo Svenson has worked with over one hundred Academy Award winners and/or nominees since he arrived in Hollywood. Born in Sweden, Svenson emigrated by himself to the US as a teenager and right away began serving his new country with six years in the U.S. Marines. After an honorable discharge, he...
You know, I never paid much attention to who was the lead, who was the second banana, where was I -- was I the fifth banana? -- whatever. I had a zest for life. And I was rather impractical about my career. I was never career oriented. I was more life oriented. So I didn't really care about billing and stuff.
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On November 30th, Bo Svenson won 1st Place in Drama for his screenplay "Don't Call Me Sir!" at the 2015 Los Angeles Screenplay Contest.
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On September 19th, Bo Svenson won the 2015 New York Screenplay Contest's "Park Avenue Prize for Drama" for his screenplay "Don't Call Me Sir!". "Don't Call Me Sir!" tells the story of 12-year-old Brooklyn-born Rena "Rusty" Glickman, who in 1947, learns about the Holocaust and vows THAT will not happen to her, that she will be better and stronger than THEM -- and she succeeds by beating the reigning New York State judo champion while disguised as a man. However Rusty is stripped of her medal when she admits that she is a woman. She vows to change how women are treated in sports and she does -- getting women's judo accepted as a competitive sport and an Olympic event (for which she received Japan's highest civilian honor, The Emperor's Order of the Rising Sun, the only Jew to be so honored).
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Won the 2010 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for "Outstanding Performance by a Cast" for Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds".
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Bo Svenson's short film "Made For Each Other" was preselected by the 2015 New York Short Film Fridays @ Bahche.
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Bo Svenson's short film "Made For Each Other" was accepted for inclusion in the Indore International Film Festival.
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The 2015 Muskoka Independent Film Festival accepted Bo Svenson's short film "Made For Each Other".
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Bo Svenson was appointed Sports Commissioner for the 2015 Special Olympics judo event being held at his old alma mater, UCLA.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected Bo Svenson to be a juror on the Student Academy Award committee.
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Bo Svenson's short film "Made For Each Other" was accepted into the 2015 Harrisburg-Hershey Film Festival (H2FF).
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"Angry" (2010) was Bo Svenson's first Swedish-produced film in 30 years.
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Received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Movieville International Film Festival in Sarasota, Florida. The award acknowledged and celebrated Svenson's many years of excellence as an actor, writer, and director.
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Following a shared bronze in the 2012 IJF World Judo Masters Championships, Svenson won his weight class at the 2013 USJA Winter Nationals. He has now retired from competition.
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Receipient of the 2012 Silver Spur Lifetime Achievement Award from The Reel Cowboys Hall of Fame.
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Speaker and lecturer on topics such as how to convey one's personality in an engaging manner in order to shine in one's private life as well as on stage and camera.
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Won silver in the 2009 USA Judo National Championships despite three broken ribs suffered days earlier.
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A high-ranking black belt in judo and other martial arts, he was inducted into the Martial Arts Masters Hall of Fame on August 8, 2009.
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U.S. Armed Forces Far East Heavyweight Division Judo Champion (1961).
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He was television's highest-paid actor for his reprisal of Buford Pusser in the television series Walking Tall (1981). Only Johnny Carson was making more than he was at the time.
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Chairman of the board and CEO of Motion Picture Group of America from 1984-1994. CEO of MagicQuest Entertainment from 1994 to present.
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Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28.
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Ph.D. candidate in Meta-Physics at UCLA 1970-1974.
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