Clinton Sundberg
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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.
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Films (45)
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993 · Dying Soldier (voice)
A Snow White Christmas
1980 · Thinker (voice)
Shadow Over Elveron
1968 · Gordon Yeager
Hotel
1967 · Lawrence Morgan
How the West Was Won
1962 · Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 · The Prime Minister / Hans (singing voice)
Bachelor in Paradise
1961 · Rodney Jones
The Birds and the Bees
1956 · Purser
Main Street to Broadway
1953 · Mr. Harry Craig
The Caddy
1953 · Charles the Butler
Sweethearts on Parade
1953 · Dr. Harold Wayne
The Girl Next Door
1953 · Samuels the butler
The Belle of New York
1952 · Gilford Spivak
As Young as You Feel
1951 · Frank Erickson
The Fat Man
1951 · Bill Norton
On the Riviera
1951 · Antoine
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950 · Donald
Two Weeks with Love
1950 · Mr. Finlay
The Toast of New Orleans
1950 · Oscar
Duchess of Idaho
1950 · Matson
Annie Get Your Gun
1950 · Foster Wilson
Father Is a Bachelor
1950 · Plato Cassin
Key to the City
1950 · Mark Mont Desk Clerk
In the Good Old Summertime
1949 · Rudy Hansen
The Barkleys of Broadway
1949 · Bert Felsher
Big Jack
1949 · C. Petronius Smith
Words and Music
1948 · Shoe Clerk
Command Decision
1948 · Maj. Homer V. Prescott
The Kissing Bandit
1948 · Colonel Gomez
Good Sam
1948 · Mr. Nelson
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948 · Mike Fitzgerald
A Date with Judy
1948 · Jameson
Easter Parade
1948 · Mike
The Bride Goes Wild
1948 · Dentist (uncredited)
Good News
1947 · Professor Kennyon
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
1947 · Operative 10
Song of the Thin Man
1947 · Mr. Purdy (uncredited)
The Hucksters
1947 · Michael Michaelson
Living in a Big Way
1947 · Everett Hanover Smythe
Undercover Maisie
1947 · Guy Canford
The Mighty McGurk
1947 · Flexter
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946 · Haberdashery Clerk
Undercurrent
1946 · Mr. Warmsley
Come to Dinner
1934 · Larry Revolt - Press Agent (uncredited)
