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Walter Sande

Walter Sande

Actor · 1906 – 1971 · Denver, Colorado, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Walter Sande (July 9, 1906 - November 22, 1971) was an American actor, notable for film roles including Paul Revere in Walt Disney's Johnny Tremain. Born in Denver, Colorado, he was one of those stern, heavyset character actors in Hollywood no person could recognize by name. He showed an early interest in music as a youth and by his college years managed to start his own band. This led to a job as musical director for 20th Century-Fox's theater chain, which, in turn, led him to acting in films beginning in 1937. Usually providing atmospheric bits with no billing, he made an initial impression in serial cliffhangers as a third-string heavy with the popular The Green Hornet Strikes Again! and Sky Raiders. His first top featured role, however, would come with The Iron Claw as Jack "Flash" Strong, a photographer who, uncharacteristically for Walter, served as a comic sidekick to our serial hero. Best of all would be his role in another serial as Red Pennington, the amusing sidekick to Don Winslow of the Navy. He repeated his role again in Don Winslow of the Coast Guard, the successful sequel. The Pennington role would spark a long and steady career in movies, usually a step or two behind Hollywood's elite, in To Have and Have Not (prominently featured as the fisherman who tries to cheat Bogie), in Along Came Jones, The Blue Dahlia, Dark City and Bad Day at Black Rock, among hundreds of others. A regular authoritative presence in these classic sci-fi films Red Planet Mars, The War of the Worlds and Invaders from Mars. He also had a recurring featured part in the 1940s Boston Blackie film series playing Detective Matthews alongside 'Chester Morris former thief-turned-crime hero. A primary support player during the 'golden age' of TV, Walter worked on nearly every popular western and crime show available throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He had a regular series role on "The Adventures of Tugboat Annie" as Captain Horatio Bullwinkle, Annie's tugboat rival, and a recurring one as Lars "Papa" Holstrum, on "The Farmer's Daughter". He died of a heart attack in 1971 at age sixty-five in Chicago, Illinois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Sande, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

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  • Movie8.0

    Citizen Kane

    1941 · 6.2K votes

  • Movie6.8

    The War of the Worlds

    1953 · 731 votes

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie7.3

    A Place in the Sun

    1951 · 428 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Sergeant York

    1941 · 238 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Last Train from Gun Hill

    1959 · 228 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Bad Day at Black Rock

    1955 · 437 votes

  • Movie7.5

    To Have and Have Not

    1945 · 587 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Gung Ho!

    1943 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Death of a Gunfighter

    1969 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.8

    A Volta do Besouro Verde

    The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

    1940 · 6 votes

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    The Duel at Silver Creek

    1952 · 41 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Kitty Foyle

    1940 · 56 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Invaders from Mars

    1953 · 212 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Woman on the Beach

    1947 · 55 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Cold Turkey

    1971 · 31 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Red House

    1947 · 90 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Son of Dracula

    1943 · 149 votes

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    Red Mountain

    1951 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.7

    A Guy Named Joe

    1944 · 55 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Tortilla Flat

    1942 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Apache

    1954 · 154 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Rawhide

    1951 · 65 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Kid from Texas

    1950 · 22 votes

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  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV7.1

    Adam-12

    1968 · 48 votes

  • TV7.8

    Bewitched

    1964 · 764 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV6.6

    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

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    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV7.3

    Lost in Space

    1965 · 137 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Lone Ranger

    1949 · 36 votes

  • TV6.2

    That Girl

    1966 · 35 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    1964 · 75 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV6.2

    Black Saddle

    1959 · 5 votes

  • TV6.0

    Bronco

    1958 · 8 votes

  • TV5.9

    Johnny Ringo

    1959 · 8 votes

  • TV6.7

    Stagecoach West

    1960 · 6 votes

  • TV6.5
  • TV7.8

    Sheriff of Cochise

    U.S. Marshall

    1958 · 4 votes

  • TV8.0

    Public Prosecutor

    1947 · 1 votes

  • TV9.0