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