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Walter Sande

Walter Sande

Birthday: 1906-07-09 | Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Walter Sande (July 9, 1906 - November 22, 1971) was an American actor, notable for film roles including Paul Revere in Walt Disney's Johnny Tremain. Born in Denver, Colorado, he was one of those stern, heavyset character actors in Hollywood no person could recognize by name. He showed an early interest in music as a youth and by his college years managed to start his own band. This led to a job as musical director for 20th Century-Fox's theater chain, which, in turn, led him to acting in films beginning in 1937. Usually providing atmospheric bits with no billing, he made an initial impression in serial cliffhangers as a third-string heavy with the popular The Green Hornet Strikes Again! and Sky Raiders. His first top featured role, however, would come with The Iron Claw as Jack "Flash" Strong, a photographer who, uncharacteristically for Walter, served as a comic sidekick to our serial hero. Best of all would be his role in another serial as Red Pennington, the amusing sidekick to Don Winslow of the Navy. He repeated his role again in Don Winslow of the Coast Guard, the successful sequel. The Pennington role would spark a long and steady career in movies, usually a step or two behind Hollywood's elite, in To Have and Have Not (prominently featured as the fisherman who tries to cheat Bogie), in Along Came Jones, The Blue Dahlia, Dark City and Bad Day at Black Rock, among hundreds of others. A regular authoritative presence in these classic sci-fi films Red Planet Mars, The War of the Worlds and Invaders from Mars. He also had a recurring featured part in the 1940s Boston Blackie film series playing Detective Matthews alongside 'Chester Morris former thief-turned-crime hero. A primary support player during the 'golden age' of TV, Walter worked on nearly every popular western and crime show available throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He had a regular series role on "The Adventures of Tugboat Annie" as Captain Horatio Bullwinkle, Annie's tugboat rival, and a recurring one as Lars "Papa" Holstrum, on "The Farmer's Daughter". He died of a heart attack in 1971 at age sixty-five in Chicago, Illinois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Sande, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1966
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

as    Dr. Arthur Beecham

1965
I'll Take Sweden

as    Bjork

1964
The Quick Gun

as    Tom Morrison

1960
The Gallant Hours

as    Horace Keys ("Doc")

1960
Oklahoma Territory

as    Marshal Pete Rosslyn

1960
Noose for a Gunman

as    Marshal Tom Evans

1959
Last Train from Gun Hill

as    Gun Hill Sheriff Bartlett

1957
Drango

as    Dr. Blair

1956
Anything Goes

as    Alex Todd

1956
The Maverick Queen

as    Sheriff Wilson

1956
Gun Brothers

as    Yellowstone Kelly

1955
Bad Day at Black Rock

as    Sam

1955
Texas Lady

as    Whit Sturdy

1954
Apache

as    Lt. Col. Beck

1954
Overland Pacific

as    Mr. Dennison

1953
The Great Sioux Uprising

as    Joe Baird

1953
Invaders from Mars

as    Police Sgt. Mack Finlay

1952
Red Planet Mars

as    Admiral Bill Carey

1952
Bomba and the Jungle Girl

as    Mr. Ward

1952
The Duel at Silver Creek

as    Pete Fargo

1952
The Legend Of The Lone Ranger

as    Sheriff Taylor

1951
The Racket

as    Sgt. Jim Delaney

1950
Dakota Lil

as    Butch Cassidy

1950
The Kid from Texas

as    Crowe

1950
Dark City

as    Swede

1949
Tucson

as    George Reeves

1949
Rim of the Canyon

as    Jake Fargo

1949
Canadian Pacific

as    Mike Brannigan

1949
Strange Bargain

as    Sergeant Cord