Ken Swofford

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Ken Swofford
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Portrays:	General Maxwell
Date of Birth:	January 02, 1932
Date of Death:	Missing required parameter 1=month! ,
Age:	76
Nationality:	USA
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Ken Swofford (born January 2, 1932) is an American actor who portrayed General Maxwell in the Original Series episode "Experiment in Terra".

Born in DuQuoin, Illinois^[1], Swofford started his show business career in the early 1960s, quickly finding his niche as playing the "every man".^[2]

Swofford's appearances in television, spanning from the 1960s to mid-1990s, include such well-known series as The Six Million Dollar Man, Gunsmoke, Mission Impossible, Adam-12 (with Galactica 1980 actor Kent McCord), The A-Team, Knight Rider and Max Headroom.

Swofford had problems with alcoholism, later narrating a video for Mothers Against Drunk Driving in 1983.^[1]

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