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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 7, 1903
Died
December 14, 1987
Place of Birth
Appleton, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As
- Clinton Sunberg
- Clint Sundberg
- Clinton Charles Sundberg
Clinton Sundberg
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.0
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
7.1
Dying Soldier (voice)
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
4.4
Thinker (voice)
A Snow White Christmas
1980
5.7
Salesman
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968
6.5
Gordon Yeager
Shadow Over Elveron
1968
5.9
Lawrence Morgan
Hotel
1967
7.0
Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
How the West Was Won
1962
5.8
The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
6.3
Rodney Jones
Bachelor in Paradise
1961
7.6
Farley Upchurch
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Credits
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Dying Soldier (voice)
1993
7.1
A Snow White Christmas
as Thinker (voice)
1980
4.4
Mayberry R.F.D.
as Salesman
1968
5.7
Shadow Over Elveron
as Gordon Yeager
1968
6.5
Hotel
as Lawrence Morgan
1967
5.9
How the West Was Won
as Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
1962
7.0
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice)
1962
5.8
Bachelor in Paradise
as Rodney Jones
1961
6.3
The Andy Griffith Show
as Farley Upchurch
1960
7.6
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Billy Devers
1960
6.2
Perry Mason
as Aaron Chambers
1957
7.7
The Birds and the Bees
as Purser
1956
6.8
Main Street to Broadway
as Mr. Harry Craig
1953
6.5
The Caddy
as Charles the Butler
1953
6.4
Sweethearts on Parade
as Dr. Harold Wayne
1953
0.0
The Girl Next Door
as Samuels the butler
1953
4.0
The Belle of New York
as Gilford Spivak
1952
5.5
I Love Lucy
as Director
1951
7.9
As Young as You Feel
as Frank Erickson
1951
6.3
The Fat Man
as Bill Norton
1951
5.6
On the Riviera
as Antoine
1951
5.9
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
as Donald
1950
6.0
Two Weeks with Love
as Mr. Finlay
1950
6.2
The Toast of New Orleans
as Oscar
1950
4.9
Duchess of Idaho
as Matson
1950
4.4
Annie Get Your Gun
as Foster Wilson
1950
6.7
Father Is a Bachelor
as Plato Cassin
1950
7.4
Key to the City
as Mark Mont Desk Clerk
1950
6.2
In the Good Old Summertime
as Rudy Hansen
1949
6.6
The Barkleys of Broadway
as Bert Felsher
1949
6.9
Big Jack
as C. Petronius Smith
1949
6.0
Words and Music
as Shoe Clerk
1948
5.7
Command Decision
as Maj. Homer V. Prescott
1948
6.4
The Kissing Bandit
as Colonel Gomez
1948
3.8
Good Sam
as Mr. Nelson
1948
6.0
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
as Mike Fitzgerald
1948
6.3
A Date with Judy
as Jameson
1948
5.9
Easter Parade
as Mike
1948
7.0
The Bride Goes Wild
as Dentist (uncredited)
1948
6.2
Good News
as Professor Kennyon
1947
6.2
🎬
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
as Operative 10
1947
5.5
Song of the Thin Man
as Mr. Purdy (uncredited)
1947
6.8
The Hucksters
as Michael Michaelson
1947
6.9
Living in a Big Way
as Everett Hanover Smythe
1947
5.0
Undercover Maisie
as Guy Canford
1947
8.0
The Mighty McGurk
as Flexter
1947
6.4
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
as Haberdashery Clerk
1946
5.5
Undercurrent
as Mr. Warmsley
1946
5.9
Come to Dinner
as Larry Revolt - Press Agent (uncredited)
1934
1.7