Karl Swenson

Karl Swenson

Acting 1908-07-23 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Karl Swenson (July 23, 1908 – October 8, 1978) was an American theatre, radio, film, and television actor. Swenson is remembered for his role as the doomsayer in the diner in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) and as the voice of Merlin in Disney's The Sword in the Stone (1963). On television, he had numerous credits in guest roles on various shows, especially Westerns, including episodes of Bonanza, The Virginian, and Gunsmoke. He had a major recurring role as Walnut Grove founder Lars Hanson on Little House on the Prairie (1974 - 1978). Swenson also had roles in The Prize (1963), Major Dundee (1965), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Seconds (1966), Hour of the Gun (1967), ...tick...tick...tick... (1970), The Wild Country (1970), Vanishing Point (1971) and Ulzana's Raid (1972). Born in Brooklyn, New York of Swedish parentage, he originally planned to be a doctor and studied at Marietta College before pursuing acting. Swenson appeared extensively on the radio from the 1930s through the 1950s. He entered the film industry in 1943 with two wartime documentary shorts, December 7 and The Sikorsky Helicopter. Swenson was married to actress Joan Tompkins. He died of a heart attack at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Connecticut on October 8, 1978, shortly after filming the Little House on the Prairie episode in which his character dies. The episode aired on October 16, 1978, eight days after Swenson's death. He was interred at Center Cemetery in New Milford, Connecticut.

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1995 (voice) (archive footage)
1990 Merlin (archive footage) (voice)
1982 Merlin (voice) (archive footage)
1977 Merlin (voice) (archive footage)
1974 Adams
1974 Lars Hanson
1974
1973
1972 Rukeyser
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1972 Mr. Fisherman
1972 Ed Barnes
1972 Gus
1971 Clerk
1971 Apperson
1971
1970 Frank Braddock Sr.
1970 Jensen
1970 Captain Potter
1968 Abel Morgan
1967 Dr. Charles Goodfellow
1967 Vet
1967 Dr. Kihlgren
1966 Dr. Morris
1966 Theodore Roosevelt
1966
1966 Colonel Seidner
1966 Colonel Dubov
1966 Dr. Ziegler
1965 Mr. Rudd
1965 Captain Waller
1965 Doc Isdell
1965 Bert Hadley
1965 Aaron Moyers
1965 Steve Minter
1965 Dr. Karl Svenson
1964 Col. Harper
1964 Chynoweth
1963 Drunken Doomsayer in Diner
1963 Hilding
1963 Merlin (voice)
1963 Sheriff
1963 Coley Bishop
1963 Axel Nielsen - Service station owner
1963 Morgan
1963 Mr. Haskell
1962 Rev. Hoskins
1962 Schmidt
1962 Train Conductor (uncredited)
1962 Insp. Bevers
1962 Col. Theodore Roosevelt
1962 Karl Swenson
1962 Ben Wallace
1962 George Sherston
1962 Barney Rosvalley
1962 Barney Rossvalley
1961 Heinrich Geuter
1961
1961 Judge
1960 Lars Nordqvist
1960 Scotty Ballantyne
1960 Dred Pierce
1960 Bill Bailey
1960 Sheriff Ole Olson
1960 Mr. McBeevee
1960
1960 Judge Frank Weinstock
1960
1960 Ben Potts
1960 John Olwine
1959 Tom Flaunce
1959 Stricker
1959 Lud Greening
1959
1959
1959 Dr. Wyle
1959
1959 Lew Bussey
1959 Ansel Torgin
1959 Kramer
1959
1959 Carl Harris
1958 The Colonel
1958 Hal - the Cameraman (uncredited)
1958
1958 Chris Manse
1958 Jim Pate
1958
1957 Mr. Badek
1957
1957
1957 Axel Norstaad
1957 George Haskell
1957 Andy Burke
1957 Captain Nares
1957 Sheriff Griffin
1957 Bill Manning
1957 Alexi Sharlokov
1957 Dennis O'Hara
1957 Corley Ketchum
1957 Charles Norman
1957 Unk Hazekian
1956 Andre Rochambeau
1955 Humpty Dumpty
1955 Hank Luz
1955 Ed Holland
1955 Raff
1955 Hutch
1955 Adam
1955 Tabe
1955 Ian McGovern
1955 Lars Karlgren
1955 McGruder
1955 Mr. Hubert
1955 John
1954
1954 Laredo Marshal (uncredited)
1951 Humpty Dumpty
1951 Asmussen
1943 Machine-Gunner (uncredited)
1935 Protester at Communist Meeting