Quintin Sondergaard - Life and Career

Life and Career

Sondergaard's work in westerns included single appearances on Scott Brady's syndicated Shotgun Slade, Peter Breck's Black Saddle, Dale Robertson's Tales of Wells Fargo, Henry Fonda's and Allen Case's The Deputy, Richard Boone's Have Gun - Will Travel, William Bendix's Overland Trail (as Jack Rance in the 1960 episode "West of Boston"), Clint Eastwood's Rawhide, Robert Horton's A Man Called Shenandoah, and Ralph Taeger's Hondo. He guest starred twice on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater in the 1959 segments "Trail Incident" and "Heritage" and on NBC's Wagon Train 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's NBC series Bat Masterson in episodes entitled "Double Showdown", "Election Day", "Lady Luck", "Dakota Showdown", and "Episode in Eden".

He appeared three time on CBS's Gunsmoke, starring James Arness, between 1961 and 1962 in episodes "Potshot", "Nina's Revenge" and "Catawomper". He appeared four times between 1966 and 1968 on Robert Conrad's CBS western, The Wild Wild West 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 to 1968, he also appeared seven times on NBC's The Virginian 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 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 and Ben Casey, NBC's Dragnet, and the syndicated Highway Patrol, starring Broderick Crawford, and Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries. He appeared as a police officer on Fred MacMurray's My Three Sons sitcom. Sondergaard's last television appearances were in 1968 and 1970 on NBC's Jack Webb-produced Adam-12.

Sondergaard, who was of Danish descent and born in Washington State, died at the age of fifty-nine in Riverside County, California. At the time of his death, he had resided in Newhall, a district of Santa Clarita in Los Angeles County, California.