Clinton Sundberg

Known for ActingBorn 1903-12-07Died 1987-12-14Appleton, 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.Read more

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MGM Parade

Sweethearts on Parade

Undercover Maisie

I Love Lucy

Perry Mason

The Andy Griffith Show

The Thief and the Cobbler

The Birds and the Bees

That's Entertainment! III

Father Is a Bachelor

Main Street to Broadway

Big Jack

How the West Was Won

The Hucksters

Easter Parade

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

The Barkleys of Broadway

Startime

Shadow Over Elveron

Song of the Thin Man

Annie Get Your Gun

The Bride Goes Wild

In the Good Old Summertime

The Mighty McGurk

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

The Amazing Mr. Nordill

Command Decision

Key to the City

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Bachelor in Paradise

Two Weeks with Love

The Caddy

As Young as You Feel

Good News

Mayberry R.F.D.

Good Sam

Hotel

On the Riviera

A Date with Judy

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Living in a Big Way

Undercurrent

The Fat Man

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

Words and Music

The Belle of New York

The Toast of New Orleans

The Kissing Bandit