'The Great Waldo Pepper' star Bo Brundin passes away at 85

Bo Brundin a Swedish actor widely known for playing a despondent German World War I pilot alongside Robert Redford in the action adventure movie The Great Waldo Pepper has passed away He was 85A representative for Paar Productions informed The Hollywood Reporter that Brundin passed away on Sunday in his native Uppsala Sweden Starlight a 2011 short film in which he played God was one of the actors final ventures for the businessAccording to The Hollywood Reporter Max Von Sydow would play Brundin in the classic 1957 film adaptation of Ingmar Bergmans The Seventh Seal Brundin also had a brief part as a political prisoner in Jerry Lewis infamous neverreleased 1972 comedy The Day the Clown CriedThroughout his acting career Brundin frequently played Germans and Russians He also made appearances on the big screen in the Xrated films Around the World With Fanny Hill 1974 Shoot the Sun Down 1978 Meteor 1979 and Raise the Titanic 1979 where his tragic character plays a crucial role in saving the world 1980Additionally Brundin played Harold Jordache an uncle of the brothers played by Nick Nolte and Peter Strauss in the renowned 1976 ABC miniseries Rich Man Poor ManAlso Read Goodfellas actor Ray Liotta dies in his sleep at 67George Roy Hill cowrote and directed The Great Waldo Pepper for Universal Pictures in 1975 and Brundin played Ernst Kessler a disillusioned German pilot who is now working as a stuntman in a biopic of his life In the climactic climax of the film he and Redfords Waldo engage in an extremely intense dogfight that leaves both of them respecting the otherIt was a little scary because there was a real crash just about an hour before I went up for the first time Brundin recalled in a 2015 interview I saw the crash and stuntman Frank Tallman had his forehead split It took three weeks in the hospital We used the Tiger Moth plane which was a great plane except its a little clumsy Its like a little elephant in the airPaul Newman ran his Oscar campaign that year according to the Paar Productions spokespersonBrundin joined the Poor Peoples Theater directed by actress Trish Van Devere appeared on an episode of ABCs NYPD from 1968 to 1970 starred in A Baltic Tragedy and played a deranged killer in the horror movie The Headless Eyes that gouges out the eyes of young women 1971In addition to Rich Man Poor Man Brundin also made appearances on The Bionic Woman Tales of the Gold Monkey Hawaii FiveO Wonder Woman Manimal The ATeam Dallas and Falcon Crest Brundin also starred in three more 1970s miniseries The Rhinemann Exchange The Word and CentennialStrawberries With Real Milk was his most recent Swedish film 2001 In 2013 he relocated back to his native country where he spent the remainder of his life coaching aspiring actorsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever