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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 (Movies)
That's Entertainment! III
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/07/1994
The Thief and the Cobbler
Character:Dying Soldier (voice)
Release Date:23/09/1993
A Snow White Christmas
Character:Thinker (voice)
Release Date:19/12/1980
Shadow Over Elveron
Character:Gordon Yeager
Release Date:05/03/1968
Hotel
Character:Lawrence Morgan
Release Date:19/01/1967
How the West Was Won
Character:Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
Release Date:02/11/1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Character:The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice)
Release Date:07/08/1962
Bachelor in Paradise
Character:Rodney Jones
Release Date:01/11/1961
The Birds and the Bees
Character:Purser
Release Date:11/05/1956
Main Street to Broadway
Character:Mr. Harry Craig
Release Date:12/10/1953
The Caddy
Character:Charles the Butler
Release Date:10/08/1953
Sweethearts on Parade
Character:Dr. Harold Wayne
Release Date:15/07/1953
The Girl Next Door
Character:Samuels the butler
Release Date:13/05/1953
The Belle of New York
Character:Gilford Spivak
Release Date:22/02/1952
As Young as You Feel
Character:Frank Erickson
Release Date:15/06/1951
The Fat Man
Character:Bill Norton
Release Date:19/05/1951
On the Riviera
Character:Antoine
Release Date:20/04/1951
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Character:Donald
Release Date:08/12/1950
Two Weeks with Love
Character:Mr. Finlay
Release Date:10/11/1950
The Toast of New Orleans
Character:Oscar
Release Date:24/08/1950
Duchess of Idaho
Character:Matson
Release Date:14/07/1950
Annie Get Your Gun
Character:Foster Wilson
Release Date:17/05/1950
Father Is a Bachelor
Character:Plato Cassin
Release Date:22/02/1950
Key to the City
Character:Mark Mont Desk Clerk
Release Date:02/02/1950
In the Good Old Summertime
Character:Rudy Hansen
Release Date:29/07/1949
The Barkleys of Broadway
Character:Bert Felsher
Release Date:04/05/1949
Big Jack
Character:C. Petronius Smith
Release Date:12/04/1949
Words and Music
Character:Shoe Clerk
Release Date:31/12/1948
Command Decision
Character:Maj. Homer V. Prescott
Release Date:23/12/1948
The Kissing Bandit
Character:Colonel Gomez
Release Date:14/11/1948
Good Sam
Character:Mr. Nelson
Release Date:01/09/1948
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Character:Mike Fitzgerald
Release Date:11/08/1948
A Date with Judy
Character:Jameson
Release Date:29/07/1948
Easter Parade
Character:Mike
Release Date:08/07/1948
The Bride Goes Wild
Character:Dentist (uncredited)
Release Date:03/03/1948
Good News
Character:Professor Kennyon
Release Date:04/12/1947
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
Character:Operative 10
Release Date:30/08/1947
Song of the Thin Man
Character:Mr. Purdy (uncredited)
Release Date:28/08/1947
The Hucksters
Character:Michael Michaelson
Release Date:17/07/1947
Living in a Big Way
Character:Everett Hanover Smythe
Release Date:10/06/1947
Undercover Maisie
Character:Guy Canford
Release Date:01/03/1947
The Mighty McGurk
Character:Flexter
Release Date:02/01/1947
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Character:Haberdashery Clerk
Release Date:25/12/1946
Undercurrent
Character:Mr. Warmsley
Release Date:11/11/1946
Come to Dinner
Character:Larry Revolt - Press Agent (uncredited)
Release Date:24/02/1934
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