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Walter Sande

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."

Highest rated movies

100% 65% Wichita
100% 71% The Blue Dahlia
97% 87% Bad Day at Black Rock
88% 56% Invaders From Mars
83% 65% The Red House
64% 45% Apache
60% 33% Son of Dracula
40% 52% Along Came Jones

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 31% I'll Take Sweden Bjork (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 43% The Quick Gun Tom Morrison (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Oklahoma Territory Marshal Pete Rosslyn (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 62% The Gallant Hours Capt. Horace Keys (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Noose for a Gunman Marshal Tom Evans (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 49% Johnny Tremain Paul Revere (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Drango Dr. Blair (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 18% The Iron Sheriff Marshal Ellison (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 60% Canyon River Maddox (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 11% Texas Lady Whit Sturdy (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 44% Anything Goes Alex Todd (Character) - 1956
100% 65% Wichita Clint Wallace (Character) - 1955
97% 87% Bad Day at Black Rock Sam, Cafe Proprietor (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet 24 Hour Alert Mayor Hogan (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 44% The Maverick Queen Sheriff Wilson (Character) - 1955
64% 45% Apache Lt. Col. Beck (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 20% Overland Pacific Mr. Dennison (Character) - 1954
88% 56% 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% 27% 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
No Score Yet 36% I Want You Ned Iverson (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 60% Rawhide Flowers (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 72% Tomorrow Is Another Day Sheriff (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 62% 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
No Score Yet 30% 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
No Score Yet 50% Strange Bargain Sgt. Cord (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 24% 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
No Score Yet 48% The Woman on the Beach Otto Wernecke (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 57% Killer McCoy Bill Thorne (Character) - 1947
83% 65% The Red House Don Brent (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 47% Nocturne Police Lt. Halberson (Character) - 1946
100% 71% The Blue Dahlia Heath (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Leave, No Love Unknown (Character) - 1946
40% 52% 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% 33% Son of Dracula Mac (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 51% Gung Ho! "Gunner" McBride (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Chance of a Lifetime Detective Sgt. Matthews (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 50% After Midnight With Boston Blackie Detective Sergeant Mathews (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Corvette K-225 Evans (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 43% Alias Boston Blackie Detective Mathews (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Parachute Battalion Medical Officer (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 40% Confessions of Boston Blackie Detective Mathews (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Iron Claw Jack "Flash" Strong (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 17% You Can't Fool Your Wife Mr. Gillespie, Jr. (Character) - 1940

TV

Credit
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