Karl Swenson
Actor

Karl Swenson

Karl Swenson is credited on 26 movies and 37 TV shows, best known by TMDB votes for The Birds, The Sword in the Stone and Little House on the Prairie.

Born July 23, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA; died October 8, 1978.

Filmography · 60 titles

The 60 best known of 63 credits on TMDB, by votes.

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About Karl Swenson

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...

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