Clinton Sundberg

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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.

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1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
The Thief and the Cobbler
Movie Dying Soldier (voice)
1980
A Snow White Christmas
Movie Thinker (voice)
1968
Mayberry R.F.D.
TV show Salesman
1968
Shadow Over Elveron
Movie Gordon Yeager
1967
Hotel
Movie Lawrence Morgan
1962
How the West Was Won
Movie Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice)
1961
Bachelor in Paradise
Movie Rodney Jones
1960
The Andy Griffith Show
TV show Farley Upchurch
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV show Billy Devers
1959
Startime
TV show Berry
1957
Perry Mason
TV show Aaron Chambers
1956
The Birds and the Bees
Movie Purser
1955
MGM Parade
TV show
1953
Main Street to Broadway
Movie Mr. Harry Craig