Clinton Sundberg

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 MetroGoldwynMayer 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 Garlands characters troubles in Easter Parade One of Sundbergs 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 coworker and confidante of Johnsons 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 gueststarring 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 ABCWarner 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