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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 7, 1903
Place of Birth:
Appleton, Minnesota, USA
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Clinton Sundberg
Biography
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) |
| 1993 | The Thief and the Cobbler | Dying Soldier (voice) |
| 1980 | A Snow White Christmas | Thinker (voice) |
| 1968 | Shadow Over Elveron | Gordon Yeager |
| 1967 | Hotel | Lawrence Morgan |
| 1962 | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice) |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Hylan Seabury (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Bachelor in Paradise | Rodney Jones |
| 1956 | The Birds and the Bees | Purser |
| 1953 | The Caddy | Charles the Butler |
| 1953 | Sweethearts on Parade | Dr. Harold Wayne |
| 1953 | The Girl Next Door | Samuels the butler |
| 1953 | Main Street to Broadway | Mr. Harry Craig |
| 1952 | The Belle of New York | Gilford Spivak |
| 1951 | The Fat Man | Bill Norton |
| 1951 | As Young as You Feel | Frank Erickson |
| 1951 | On the Riviera | Antoine |
| 1950 | The Toast of New Orleans | Oscar |
| 1950 | Duchess of Idaho | Matson |
| 1950 | Father Is a Bachelor | Plato Cassin |
| 1950 | Key to the City | Mark Mont Desk Clerk |
| 1950 | Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone | Donald |
| 1950 | Two Weeks with Love | Mr. Finlay |
| 1950 | Annie Get Your Gun | Foster Wilson |
| 1949 | In the Good Old Summertime | Rudy Hansen |
| 1949 | The Barkleys of Broadway | Bert Felsher |
| 1949 | Big Jack | C. Petronius Smith |
| 1948 | Easter Parade | Mike |
| 1948 | Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid | Mike Fitzgerald |
| 1948 | Good Sam | Mr. Nelson |
| 1948 | The Kissing Bandit | Colonel Gomez |
| 1948 | Command Decision | Maj. Homer V. Prescott |
| 1948 | Words and Music | Shoe Clerk |
| 1948 | A Date with Judy | Jameson |
| 1947 | Good News | Professor Kennyon |
| 1947 | Undercover Maisie | Guy Canford |
| 1947 | The Amazing Mr. Nordill | Operative 10 |
| 1947 | The Hucksters | Michael Michaelson |
| 1947 | Song of the Thin Man | Mr. Purdy (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Living in a Big Way | Everett Hanover Smythe |
| 1947 | The Mighty McGurk | Flexter |
| 1946 | Undercurrent | Mr. Warmsley |
| 1946 | Love Laughs at Andy Hardy | Haberdashery Clerk |
| 1934 | Come to Dinner | Larry Revolt - Press Agent (uncredited) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Mayberry R.F.D. | Salesman |
| 1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Billy Devers |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | Farley Upchurch |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | Aaron Chambers |
| 1951 | I Love Lucy | Director |