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Portrays:	General Maxwell
Date of Birth:	January 02, 1932
Date of Death:	November 1, 2018
Age at Death:	86
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. In 1975, he was a semi-regular on Ellery Queen as newspaper columnist Frank Flannigan.

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

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 IMDb biography on Ken Swofford (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 24 October 2007.
↑ Ellery Queen Television Series Companion - Ken Swofford bio (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 24 October 2007.

[imdb-1] 1.0 ^1.1 IMDb biography on Ken Swofford (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 24 October 2007.

[2] Ellery Queen Television Series Companion - Ken Swofford bio (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 24 October 2007.

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+'''Ken Swofford''' (born January 2, 1932) is an American actor who portrayed [[General Maxwell]] in the {{TOS|Battlestar Galactica|Original Series}} episode "[[Experiment in Terra]]".
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+Born in [[w:DuQuoin, Illinois|DuQuoin, Illinois]]<ref name="imdb">{{cite_web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842855/bio|title=IMDb biography on Ken Swofford|date=|accessdate=24 October 2007|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>, Swofford started his show business career in the early 1960s, quickly finding  his niche as playing the "every man".<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.elleryqueenshow.com/cast-swofford.html|title=Ellery Queen Television Series Companion - Ken Swofford bio|date=|accessdate=24 October 2007|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>
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-For articles on cast and crew, refer to the [[Battlestar Wiki: Standards and Conventions (biographies)|Standards and Conventions for biographies]].
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