Quentin Charles Sondergaard, known primarily as Quintin Sondergaard (January 11, 1925—February 15, 1984), was an American

United States

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 actor

Actor

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 principally active on television

Television

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 westerns

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 from 1957-1970. He had a supporting role with eleven appearances as "Deputy Quint" on the series Tombstone Territory

Tombstone Territory

Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959...

, with co-stars Pat Conway

Pat Conway

Patrick Douglas Conway, known as Pat Conway , was an American actor best known for his role as young but tough Sheriff Clay Hollister on the ABC and then syndicated western television series Tombstone Territory . He was a maternal grandson of silent film star Francis X...

 (1931–1981), Richard Eastham

Richard Eastham

Richard Eastham, born as Dickinson Swift Eastham , was an American actor of stage, film, and television and a concert singer known for his deep baritone voice.-Tombstone Territory:...

 (1916–2005), and Gilman Rankin

Gilman Rankin

Gilman W. Rankin was a Massachusetts-born actor who appeared primarily in television westerns between 1956 and 1975. Between 1957 and 1959, he had a supporting role as Deputy Charlie Riggs in seven episodes of the series Tombstone Territory...

 (1911–1993). Tombstone Territory began in 1957 on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 and then switched to syndication

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 in 1959.

Sondergaard's other work in westerns included single appearances on Scott Brady

Scott Brady

Scott Brady was an American film and television actor.Born as Gerard Kenneth Tierney, he was the younger brother of fellow actor Lawrence Tierney. Brady served in the Navy during World War II, where he was a boxing champ...

's Shotgun Slade

Shotgun Slade

Shotgun Slade is an American western television series starring Scott Brady that aired in syndication from October 24, 1959, until 1961. Created by Frank Gruber, the stories were written by John Berardino, Charissa Hughes, and Martin Berkeley...

, Peter Breck

Peter Breck

Joseph Peter Breck is an American prolific character actor of stage, who has played roles on television and in film...

's Black Saddle

Black Saddle

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, Dale Robertson

Dale Robertson

Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson is an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the role of Jim Hardie in the TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo, and the owner of an incomplete railroad line in ABC's The Iron Horse, often appearing as the deceptively thoughtful but...

's Tales of Wells Fargo

Tales of Wells Fargo

Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour.-Synopsis:...

, Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

's and Allen Case

Allen Case

Allen Case was an American television actor most noted for the lead role of Deputy Clay McCord in NBC's The Deputy opposite series regular Henry Fonda...

's The Deputy

The Deputy (TV series)

The Deputy is a 1959-1961 half-hour NBC western series featuring Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.-Production:...

, Richard Boone

Richard Boone

Richard Allen Boone was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for starring in the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel.-Early life:...

's Have Gun - Will Travel, William Bendix

William Bendix

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's Overland Trail

Overland Trail (TV series)

Overland Trail is a short-lived American Western series which aired on NBC from February 7 to June 6, 1960. The series starred William Bendix and Doug McClure,-Synopsis:...

(as Jack Rance in the 1960 episode "West of Boston"), Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

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's Rawhide

Rawhide (TV series)

Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...

, Robert Horton

Robert Horton

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's A Man Called Shenandoah

A Man Called Shenandoah

A Man Called Shenandoah is a Western series that aired on ABC-TV from 1965 to 1966 by MGM Television.-Synopsis:The series starred Robert Horton as a man who was found shot and left for dead on the trail and is revived...

, and Ralph Taeger

Ralph Taeger

Ralph Taeger is an American actor who starred in three television series during the 1960s.-Biography:Born in Queens, New York, USA,from German speaking parents Fredrich and Olga Siefert. Taeger's first career choice was professional baseball, and he did play briefly on a farm team for the Los...

's Hondo

Hondo (TV series)

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. He guest starred twice on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater

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in the 1959 segments "Trail Incident" and "Heritage" and on NBC

NBC

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's Wagon Train

Wagon Train

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in episodes "The Old Man Charvanaugh Story" (1959) and "The Albert Farnsworth Story" (1960). He appeared five times in different roles between 1958 and 1961 on Gene Barry

Gene Barry

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's NBC series Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson (TV series)

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black and white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961...

in episodes entitled "Double Showdown", "Election Day", "Lady Luck", "Dakota Showdown", and "Episode in Eden".

He appeared three time on CBS's Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....

, starring James Arness

James Arness

James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke for 20 years...

, between 1961 and 1962 in episodes "Potshot", "Nina's Revenge" and "Catawomper". He appeared four times between 1966 and 1968 on Robert Conrad

Robert Conrad

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's CBS western, The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....

in episodes "The Night of the Skulls", "The Night of the Surreal McCoy", "The Night of the Cut-Throats", and "The Night of the Headless Woman". From 1966-1968, he also appeared seven times on NBC's The Virginian

The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...

in episodes "The Outcast", "Yesterday's Timepiece", "The Girl on the Pinto", "A Small Taste of Justice", "The Decision", "Image of an Outlaw", and "The Heritage". He also appeared as Hank in the 1960 western film Five Guns to Tombstone with co-star Robert Karnes

Robert Karnes

Robert A. Karnes was a prolific television actor who also appeared in some films early in his career, including mostly uncredited parts in The Best Years of Our Lives , Miracle on 34th Street , Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye , and From Here to Eternity...

 in the role of Matt Wade. His first acting role was as "Rambo" (not to be confused the later film character) in the 1951 western picture Badman's Gold, with a cast of lesser-known names.

Sondergaards's dramatic roles were confined to ABC's The Untouchables

The Untouchables (1959 TV series)

The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...

and Ben Casey

Ben Casey

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, *, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph...

, NBC's Dragnet

Dragnet (series)

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, and the syndicated Highway Patrol

Highway Patrol (TV series)

Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series produced 1955-1959.-Overview:Highway Patrol stars Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in an unidentified Western state...

starring Broderick Crawford

Broderick Crawford

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. He also appeared as a police officer on Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s....

's My Three Sons

My Three Sons

My Three Sons is an American situation comedy. The series ran from 1960 to 1965 on ABC, and moved to CBS until its end on August 24, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of a widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas , raising his three sons.The series was a cornerstone of the CBS...

sitcom. Sondergaard's last television appearances were in 1968 and 1970 on NBC's Jack Webb

Jack Webb

John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet...

-produced Adam-12

Adam-12

Adam-12 was a television police drama which followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12. Created by Jack Webb who is known for creating Dragnet, the series captured a...

.

Sondergaard, who was of Danish

Denmark

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 descent and born in Washington State, died at the age of fifty-nine in Riverside County

Riverside County, California

Riverside County is a county in the U.S. state of California. One of 58 California counties, it covers in the southern part of the state, and stretches from Orange County to the Colorado River, which forms the state border with Arizona. The county derives its name from the city of Riverside,...

, California

California

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. At the time of his death, he had resided in Newhall

Newhall, California

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, a district of Santa Clarita

Santa Clarita, California

Santa Clarita is the fourth largest city in Los Angeles County, California, United States and the twenty-fourth largest city in the state of California. The 2010 US Census reported the city's population grew 16.7% from the year 2000 to 176,320 residents. It is located about northwest of downtown...

 in Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of 2010 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 9,818,605, making it the most populous county in the United States. Los Angeles County alone is more populous than 42 individual U.S. states...

, California.

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