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Max Wagner

Max Wagner

Oyuncu · 1901 – 1975 · Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Max Wagner (November 28, 1901 – November 16, 1975) was a Mexican-born American film actor who specialized in playing small parts such as thugs, gangsters, sailors, henchmen, bodyguards, cab drivers and moving men, appearing more than 400 films in his career, most without receiving screen credit. Newspaper gossip columnists noted his rise from playing "Gangster #4", with no lines, and not carrying a gun, to "Gangster #2", with both lines and a gun. Wagner was one of five children, all boys, of William Wallace Wagner, a railroad conductor, and Edith Wagner, a writer who provided dispatches for the Christian Science Monitor during the Mexican Revolution. When he was 10 years old, his father was killed by rebels and the family moved to Salinas, California, where he met John Steinbeck, who became a lifelong friend. Steinback based the character of the boy in his novel The Red Pony on Wagner. Under the name "Max Baron", Wagner acted in many Spanish-language versions of English-language films, which studios made as a matter of course in the early days of sound films, He also served as a Spanish language coach for other actors, and appeared in many of the "Mexican Spitfire" films starring Lupe Vélez, where he also served to monitor Velez's Spanish ad-libs for profanity. Other series that Wagner appeared in include the Charlie Chan films, and Tom Mix serials, as well as others made by Mascot Pictures Corporation. In the 1940s, Wagner was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in six films written and directed by Sturges, beginning with The Palm Beach Story In 1940 during the filming of "The Mad Doctor", Wagner was credited for driving 50,000 miles as an on-screen taxi driver on the studio back lots of Hollywood. Since his appearance as a cab driver in Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935), producers often cast him as a wise-cracking or henchman taxi driver. "I was cast as a taxi driver about five years ago", Wagner told a reporter. "And I was typed." In 1952, Wagner began to appear on television, in episodes of such shows as The Cisco Kid, Zane Grey Theater and Perry Mason, playing much the same kind of parts he played in the movies. He was a regular cast member on the western television series Gunsmoke, making nearly 80 appearances between 1959 and 1973. He also appeared in many episodes of The Rifleman, Bonanza, Cimarron Strip, The Wild Wild West and Maverick, including a guest-starring role in the 1959 Rifleman episode "Blood Brother." He also had roles in the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone series. He appeared in more than 200 television episodes between 1952 and 1974. Notable film roles for Wagner include a supporting role in the cult science fiction classic Invaders from Mars (1953), an actor playing a gangster in the film-within-a-film segment of Bullets or Ballots (1936), and the bull farm attendant in the Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bullfighters (1945). Late in his career, he appeared in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He also occasionally composed music, such as the Mexican folk ballad "Pedro, Rudarte y Simon" in the Western film The Last Trail (1933). Wagner died of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1975.

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  • Film8.3

    It's a Wonderful Life

    Şahane Hayat

    1946 · 5.1K votes

  • Film7.8

    Rosemary's Baby

    Rosemary'nin Bebeği

    1968 · 4.5K votes

  • Film8.0

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Bülbülü Öldürmek

    1962 · 3K votes

  • Film7.9

    Young Frankenstein

    Genç Frankenstein

    1974 · 3.5K votes

  • Film7.5

    East of Eden

    Cennetin Doğusu

    1955 · 839 votes

  • Film7.3

    True Grit

    İz Peşinde

    1969 · 890 votes

  • Film7.8

    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    Kahramanın Sonu

    1962 · 1.3K votes

  • Film7.0

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    Çılgın Dünya

    1963 · 720 votes

  • Film6.9

    Hang 'em High

    Onları Yükseğe As

    1968 · 890 votes

  • Film7.8

    The Grapes of Wrath

    Gazap Üzümleri

    1940 · 1.1K votes

  • Film6.6

    Fallen Angel

    1945 · 135 votes

  • Film7.1

    The Great Race

    1965 · 393 votes

  • Film6.3

    The Cheyenne Social Club

    Belalı Miras

    1970 · 80 votes

  • Film7.6

    The Lost Weekend

    Yaratılan Adam

    1945 · 689 votes

  • Film6.7

    The Spirit of St. Louis

    Atlantik Fatihi

    1957 · 152 votes

  • Film6.6

    Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Silahşörü Destekleyin

    1971 · 97 votes

  • Film7.5

    The Roaring Twenties

    Kükreyen Yirmiler

    1939 · 276 votes

  • Film7.1

    You Only Live Once

    1937 · 198 votes

  • Film7.1
  • Film7.0

    The Palm Beach Story

    Palmiye Kumsalı Öyküsü

    1942 · 214 votes

  • Film6.9

    They Drive by Night

    1940 · 139 votes

  • Film6.6

    Caught

    1949 · 103 votes

  • Film6.0
  • Film7.2

    Stage Door

    1937 · 144 votes

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  • Dizi8.1

    Columbo

    1971 · 859 votes

  • Dizi7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • Dizi7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • Dizi8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    Alacakaranlık Kuşağı

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • Dizi7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • Dizi6.8
  • Dizi6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • Dizi7.2