Walter Sande
Highest Rated: 100% The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Lowest Rated: 33% Red Planet Mars (1952)
Birthday: Jul 9, 1906
Birthplace: Denver, Colorado, USA
With more than 250 productions to his credit, heavy-set and stern-browed Walter Sande has a recognizable face. The prolific and omnipresent character actor started out as a musician working as a musical director at a movie theater chain owned by 20th Century Fox, which introduced Sande to the joys of acting. The pudgy musician made his film debut as a detective in the 1937 crime drama "Tenth Avenue Kid." He played a string of bit parts, often heavies, before earning a featured role in 1941's greed-fueled crime caper "The Iron Claw," in which he played a comedic sidekick to the serial's hero. This led to a similar role in the Pearl Harbor-set war adventure "Don Winslow of the Navy." His character, the humorous Lt. Red Pennington, proved so popular that Sande was asked to reprise the role in the sequel "Don Winslow of the Coast Guard." Having proved his worth as a solid sidekick, Sande went on to play second fiddle to a host of Hollywood stars, including Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, and Charlton Heston. With the 1950s came the advent of television, and Sande took to TV like a duck to water, performing in more than 70 different programs before making his final onscreen appearance in 1972 on an episode of the lauded long-running anthology series "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color."
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Walter Sande
Filmography
Movies
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I'll Take Sweden | Bjork (Character) | - | 1965 |
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The Quick Gun | Tom Morrison (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oklahoma Territory | Marshal Pete Rosslyn (Character) | - | 1960 |
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The Gallant Hours | Capt. Horace Keys (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Noose for a Gunman | Marshal Tom Evans (Character) | - | 1960 |
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Johnny Tremain | Paul Revere (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Drango | Dr. Blair (Character) | - | 1957 |
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The Iron Sheriff | Marshal Ellison (Character) | - | 1957 |
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Canyon River | Maddox (Character) | - | 1956 |
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Texas Lady | Whit Sturdy (Character) | - | 1956 |
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Anything Goes | Alex Todd (Character) | - | 1956 |
100% |
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Wichita | Clint Wallace (Character) | - | 1955 |
97% |
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Bad Day at Black Rock | Sam, Cafe Proprietor (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 24 Hour Alert | Mayor Hogan (Character) | - | 1955 |
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The Maverick Queen | Sheriff Wilson (Character) | - | 1955 |
64% |
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Apache | Lt. Col. Beck (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Overland Pacific | Mr. Dennison (Character) | - | 1954 |
88% |
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Invaders From Mars | Police Desk Sgt. Finlay (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Sioux Uprising | Joe Baird (Character) | - | 1953 |
33% |
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Red Planet Mars | Admiral Bill Carey (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bomba and the Jungle Girl | Mr. Ward (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jungle Girl | Mr. Ward (Character) | - | 1952 |
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I Want You | Ned Iverson (Character) | - | 1951 |
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Rawhide | Flowers (Character) | - | 1951 |
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Tomorrow Is Another Day | Sheriff (Character) | - | 1951 |
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Fort Worth | Deputy Waller (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Kid From Texas | Crowe (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dakota Lil | Butch Cassidy (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad Boy | Texas Oil Man (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rim of the Canyon | Jake Fargo (Character) | - | 1949 |
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Canadian Pacific | Mike Brannigan (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch | Austin (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tucson | George Reeves (Character) | - | 1949 |
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Strange Bargain | Sgt. Cord (Character) | - | 1949 |
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Blonde Ice | Hack Doyle (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wallflower | Police Officer (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perilous Waters | Franklin (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Half Past Midnight | Det. Lt. MacDonald (Character) | - | 1948 |
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The Woman on the Beach | Otto Wernecke (Character) | - | 1947 |
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Killer McCoy | Bill Thorne (Character) | - | 1947 |
83% |
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The Red House | Don Brent (Character) | - | 1947 |
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Nocturne | Police Lt. Halberson (Character) | - | 1946 |
100% |
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The Blue Dahlia | Heath (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Leave, No Love | Unknown (Character) | - | 1946 |
40% |
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Along Came Jones | Ira Waggoner (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Installment: A Crime Does Not Pay Subject | B.M. 'Bull Moose' Brannigan (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daltons Ride Again | Wilkins (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Singing Sheriff | Butch (Character) | - | 1944 |
60% |
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Son of Dracula | Mac (Character) | - | 1943 |
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Gung Ho! | "Gunner" McBride (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chance of a Lifetime | Detective Sgt. Matthews (Character) | - | 1943 |
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After Midnight With Boston Blackie | Detective Sergeant Mathews (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Corvette K-225 | Evans (Character) | - | 1943 |
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Alias Boston Blackie | Detective Mathews (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Parachute Battalion | Medical Officer (Character) | - | 1941 |
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Confessions of Boston Blackie | Detective Mathews (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Iron Claw | Jack "Flash" Strong (Character) | - | 1941 |
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You Can't Fool Your Wife | Mr. Gillespie, Jr. (Character) | - | 1940 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969-1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Charlie Hodgkiss (Guest Star) | 1961 1965 1969 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1965 1969 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Affair | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Bewitched | Giddings (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Iron Horse | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Girl | Max Cochran (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Farmer's Daughter | Lars "Papa" Holstrum (Character) | 1963-1966 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Tom (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Lost in Space | Sheriff George Baxendale (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man Called Shenandoah | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Ben Miles (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie |
Sgt. Coffey (Character), U.S. Marshal (Guest Star) |
1959 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal Dillon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronco | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1957-1958 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Judd Curtis (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Healey (Guest Star) | 1957 1959-1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rebel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trackdown | Fred Creight (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Samuel Black (Guest Star) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Ranger | Sheriff Hugh McNeil (Guest Star) | 1949-1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lone Ranger | Sheriff Taylor (Guest Star) | 1949 |