1903-12-07 ( 121 years old ) in Appleton, Minnesota, USA
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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.
Movies
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993-09-23
A Snow White Christmas
1980-12-19
Shadow Over Elveron
1968-03-05
Hotel
1967-01-19
How the West Was Won
1962-11-02
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962-08-07
Bachelor in Paradise
1961-11-01
The Birds and the Bees
1956-05-11
Main Street to Broadway
1953-10-12
The Caddy
1953-08-10
Sweethearts on Parade
1953-07-15
The Girl Next Door
1953-05-13
The Belle of New York
1952-02-22
As Young as You Feel
1951-06-15
The Fat Man
1951-05-19
On the Riviera
1951-04-20
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950-12-08
Two Weeks with Love
1950-11-10
The Toast of New Orleans
1950-08-24
Duchess of Idaho
1950-07-14
Annie Get Your Gun
1950-05-17
Father Is a Bachelor
1950-02-22
Key to the City
1950-02-02
In the Good Old Summertime
1949-07-29
The Barkleys of Broadway
1949-05-04
Big Jack
1949-04-12
Words and Music
1948-12-31
Command Decision
1948-12-23
The Kissing Bandit
1948-11-14
Good Sam
1948-09-01
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948-08-11
A Date with Judy
1948-07-29
Easter Parade
1948-07-08
Good News
1947-12-04
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
1947-08-30
Song of the Thin Man
1947-08-28
The Hucksters
1947-07-17
Living in a Big Way
1947-06-10
Undercover Maisie
1947-03-01
The Mighty McGurk
1947-01-02
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946-12-25
Undercurrent
1946-11-11
Come to Dinner
1934-02-24
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