Clinton Sundberg
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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.
Known for
Credits
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
Easter Parade (1948)
as Mike
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
as Dying Soldier (voice)
Undercurrent (1946)
as Mr. Warmsley
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage)
Hotel (1967)
as Lawrence Morgan
The Caddy (1953)
as Charles the Butler
Undercover Maisie (1947)
as Guy Canford
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
as Foster Wilson
Good News (1947)
as Professor Kennyon
Words and Music (1948)
as Shoe Clerk
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
as Mike Fitzgerald
Good Sam (1948)
as Mr. Nelson
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
as Bert Felsher
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
as Rudy Hansen
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
as The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice)
Command Decision (1948)
as Maj. Homer V. Prescott
The Hucksters (1947)
as Michael Michaelson
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
as Mr. Purdy (uncredited)
The Fat Man (1951)
as Bill Norton
A Date with Judy (1948)
as Jameson
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
as Rodney Jones
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
as Mr. Finlay
On the Riviera (1951)
as Antoine
Big Jack (1949)
as C. Petronius Smith
Key to the City (1950)
as Mark Mont Desk Clerk
The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
as Dentist (uncredited)
As Young as You Feel (1951)
as Frank Erickson
A Snow White Christmas (1980)
as Thinker (voice)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
as Haberdashery Clerk
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
as Oscar
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Mr. Harry Craig
Father Is a Bachelor (1950)
as Plato Cassin
The Belle of New York (1952)
as Gilford Spivak
The Mighty McGurk (1947)
as Flexter
The Amazing Mr. Nordill (1947)
as Operative 10
Duchess of Idaho (1950)
as Matson
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
as Donald
Come to Dinner (1934)
as Larry Revolt - Press Agent (uncredited)
The Kissing Bandit (1948)
as Colonel Gomez
The Girl Next Door (1953)
as Samuels the butler
Living in a Big Way (1947)
as Everett Hanover Smythe
Shadow Over Elveron (1968)
as Gordon Yeager
Sweethearts on Parade (1953)
as Dr. Harold Wayne
The Birds and the Bees (1956)
as Purser