Clinton Sundberg

Birthday: 1903-12-07
Deathday: 1987-12-14
Birthplace: Appleton, Minnesota, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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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.

Credits

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