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Clinton Sundberg

Clinton Sundberg

Actor · 1903 – 1987 · Appleton, Minnesota, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clinton Charles Sundberg (December 7, 1903 – December 14, 1987) was an American character actor in film and stage. Sundberg left teaching English literature for acting, appearing in plays in stock theater in New England. He appeared in a number of Broadway plays, debuting in Nine Pine Street (1933). His most notable roles were Mr. Kraler in the original 1957 production of The Diary of Anne Frank and Mortimer Brewster (as a replacement) in the 1944 Arsenic and Old Lace. He became a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he appeared in numerous supporting roles in films of the late 1940s and early 1950s. He played Mike, the bartender who listens to Judy Garland's character's troubles in Easter Parade. One of Sundberg's most memorable roles was in the 1949 film In the Good Old Summertime (which also starred Garland and Van Johnson) as Rudy Hansen, a friendly co-worker and confidante of Johnson's character. He also played the hotel owner who hired Annie Oakley to enter the shooting contest against Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun. He later made several television appearances, including two episodes of Perry Mason: "The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito" in 1963 and "The Case of the Scarlet Scandal" in 1966. He also appeared in several television commercials. In 1962, Sundberg was cast in the lead guest-starring role of Luther Boardman, a naive but troublesome newspaper publisher who comes to Laramie, Wyoming, to capture the story of "real West" gunfighters in "The Man Behind the News", one of the last episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Lawman, which starred John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop. Hal Baylor appears in the episode as gunfighter Mort Peters, whom Boardman (Sundberg) goads into a shootout with Troop. Sundberg died of heart failure in Santa Monica, California, aged 84.

Movies24

  • Movie7.0

    How the West Was Won

    1962 · 517 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Thief and the Cobbler

    1993 · 146 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie6.7
  • Movie7.0

    Easter Parade

    1948 · 157 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Annie Get Your Gun

    1950 · 88 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Undercover Maisie

    1947 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Key to the City

    1950 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Barkleys of Broadway

    1949 · 54 votes

  • Movie7.1
  • Movie6.7

    Song of the Thin Man

    1947 · 107 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Bachelor in Paradise

    1961 · 25 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Undercurrent

    1946 · 53 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Words and Music

    1948 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Good Sam

    1948 · 24 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie5.2

    The Toast of New Orleans

    1950 · 12 votes

  • Movie4.8

    A Snow White Christmas

    1980 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.2

    The Kissing Bandit

    1948 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Two Weeks with Love

    1950 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.1

    A Date with Judy

    1948 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Bride Goes Wild

    1948 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie6.0

    Living in a Big Way

    1947 · 4 votes

Series7

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 140 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV7.9

    I Love Lucy

    1951 · 265 votes

  • TV6.4
  • TV6.2

    Mayberry R.F.D.

    1968 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    Startime

    1959 · 4 votes

  • TV7.5

    MGM Parade

    1955 · 2 votes