Clinton Sundberg

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Clinton Sundberg
Sundberg ca. 1940
Born
Clinton Charles Sundberg

(1903-12-07)December 7, 1903
Appleton, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedDecember 14, 1981(1981-12-14) (aged 78)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Alma materHamline University
OccupationActor
Years active1934–1980

Clinton Charles Sundberg (December 7, 1903 [some sources say 1906] – December 14, 1981)[1][2][3][4] was an American character actor in film and on stage.

Early years[edit]

Sundberg was born in Appleton, Minnesota.[5] He graduated from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was active in drama, president of his fraternity, and captain of the tennis team.[6]

Career[edit]

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).[5] 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.[3]

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. In the 1949 film In the Good Old Summertime, which also starred Garland and Van Johnson, he played a friendly co-worker and confidant of Johnson's character. In Annie Get Your Gun, he played the hotel owner who hires Annie Oakley to enter the shooting contest against Frank Butler.

Sundberg appeared in "The Englishman," a 1957 episode of Have Gun - Will Travel. In 1962, he played the lead guest-starring role of Luther Boardman, a naive but troublesome newspaper publisher who comes to Laramie, Wyoming in "The Man Behind the News", one of the last episodes of the western series Lawman. Other TV appearances include two episodes of Perry Mason: "The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito" in 1963
and "The Case of the Scarlet Scandal" in 1966. He also apperared in several TV commercials.[3]

Partial filmography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ His birth year had been the subject of contention, with sources differing between 1903 and 1906. The Social Security Death Index and the 1910 United States Census both confirm 1903.
  2. ^ 1910 Census, Social Security Death Index, accessed through Ancestry.com
  3. ^ a b c "Clinton Sundberg, Actor, 74". The New York Times. December 25, 1981.
  4. ^ "Actor Clinton Sundberg, 74". The Los Angeles Times. December 24, 1981.
  5. ^ a b Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 714. ISBN 9781557835512. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  6. ^ "Again Takes Writer Part". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. Utah, Ogden. November 21, 1937. p. 24.

External links[edit]

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