Clinton Sundberg
Acting
Born 1903-12-07
Died 1987-12-14
Appleton, Minnesota, USA
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
50 credits
Perry Mason
The Andy Griffith Show
Mayberry R.F.D.
Startime
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
How the West Was Won
Easter Parade
The Thief and the Cobbler
That's Entertainment! III
The Caddy
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Undercurrent
Good Sam
Annie Get Your Gun
Hotel
Words and Music
As Young as You Feel
Undercover Maisie
The Barkleys of Broadway
Bachelor in Paradise
In the Good Old Summertime
The Toast of New Orleans
Song of the Thin Man
The Girl Next Door
Command Decision
On the Riviera
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
Good News
Big Jack
The Hucksters
Key to the City
The Bride Goes Wild
A Snow White Christmas
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
A Date with Judy
Main Street to Broadway
The Mighty McGurk
Two Weeks with Love
The Fat Man
The Kissing Bandit
The Belle of New York
Father Is a Bachelor
Duchess of Idaho
Living in a Big Way
Shadow Over Elveron
The Birds and the Bees
Sweethearts on Parade
Come to Dinner
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