Clinton Sundberg
Acting • Born 1903-12-07 – Died 1987-12-14
Biography
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.
Filmography
51 credits
Good News
Movie • 1947
Professor Kennyon
In the Good Old Summertime
Movie • 1949
Rudy Hansen
Easter Parade
Movie • 1948
Mike
The Barkleys of Broadway
Movie • 1949
Bert Felsher
The Belle of New York
Movie • 1952
Gilford Spivak
The Caddy
Movie • 1953
Charles the Butler
Undercurrent
Movie • 1946
Mr. Warmsley
The Fat Man
Movie • 1951
Bill Norton
The Toast of New Orleans
Movie • 1950
Oscar
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Movie • 1948
Mike Fitzgerald
Duchess of Idaho
Movie • 1950
Matson
Good Sam
Movie • 1948
Mr. Nelson
Come to Dinner
Movie • 1934
Larry Revolt - Press Agent (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie • 1962
The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice)
The Kissing Bandit
Movie • 1948
Colonel Gomez
Father Is a Bachelor
Movie • 1950
Plato Cassin
Big Jack
Movie • 1949
C. Petronius Smith
Undercover Maisie
Movie • 1947
Guy Canford
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
Movie • 1947
Operative 10
Sweethearts on Parade
Movie • 1953
Dr. Harold Wayne
Bachelor in Paradise
Movie • 1961
Rodney Jones
Key to the City
Movie • 1950
Mark Mont Desk Clerk
The Hucksters
Movie • 1947
Michael Michaelson
As Young as You Feel
Movie • 1951
Frank Erickson
The Birds and the Bees
Movie • 1956
Purser
Song of the Thin Man
Movie • 1947
Mr. Purdy (uncredited)
Command Decision
Movie • 1948
Maj. Homer V. Prescott
Living in a Big Way
Movie • 1947
Everett Hanover Smythe
Words and Music
Movie • 1948
Shoe Clerk
A Snow White Christmas
Movie • 1980
Thinker (voice)
The Girl Next Door
Movie • 1953
Samuels the butler
The Thief and the Cobbler
Movie • 1993
Dying Soldier (voice)
Main Street to Broadway
Movie • 1953
Mr. Harry Craig
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Movie • 1950
Donald
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
The Mighty McGurk
Movie • 1947
Flexter
Shadow Over Elveron
Movie • 1968
Gordon Yeager
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
On the Riviera
Movie • 1951
Antoine
Two Weeks with Love
Movie • 1950
Mr. Finlay
A Date with Judy
Movie • 1948
Jameson
Annie Get Your Gun
Movie • 1950
Foster Wilson
Hotel
Movie • 1967
Lawrence Morgan
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Movie • 1946
Haberdashery Clerk
The Bride Goes Wild
Movie • 1948
Dentist (uncredited)
I Love Lucy
TV • 1951
Director
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Billy Devers
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Farley Upchurch
Mayberry R.F.D.
TV • 1968
Salesman
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Aaron Chambers
MGM Parade
TV • 1955