Max Wagner

Max Wagner

Acting 1901-11-28 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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2024 Art Direction
1974 Villager (uncredited)
1973 Music Hall Drunk (Uncredited)
1972 Townsman (uncredited)
1971 Townsman Watching Fight (uncredited)
1971 Derelict (uncredited)
1970 Barfly (uncredited)
1969 Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1968 Man in Dream Sequence (uncredited)
1968 Prisoner
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1968 Reporter (uncredited)
1967 Barfly (uncredited)
1966 Cashier (uncredited)
1965 Barfly (uncredited)
1965 Church Member
1963 Spectator (uncredited)
1963 Blackjack Dealer
1962 Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1962 Townsman (uncredited)
1960 Party Guest (uncredited)
1960 Convention Delegate (uncredited)
1960 Townsman (uncredited)
1959 Roller Coaster Operator
1957 Sergeant Goring
1957 Reporter (uncredited)
1957 Police Detective (uncredited)
1956 Mongul Guard (uncredited)
1955 Deputy Charlie (uncredited)
1955 Bartender (uncredited)
1955 Workman (uncredited)
1955 Gambler (uncredited)
1954 Policeman (uncredited)
1954 Expressman (uncredited)
1953 Army Sgt. Rinaldi
1953 Station Agent (uncredited)
1952 First Workman
1951 Bar Patron (uncredited)
1951 Jack Purcell (uncredited)
1951 Durko (uncredited)
1950 Drunk (uncredited)
1949 Umpire (uncredited)
1949 Charles McMahon
1949 Bartender
1949 Projectionist (uncredited)
1949 Citizen (uncredited)
1948 Second Investigating Detective (Uncredited)
1948 Townsman (uncredited)
1948 Baggage Man
1948 Mike
1947 Assistant Overseer (uncredited)
1947 Man in Café (uncredited)
1946 Bartender (uncredited)
1946 Cashier / Nick's Assistant Bouncer (uncredited)
1946 Henchman Mike (uncredited)
1946 Moving Man (uncredited)
1945 George
1945 Mike (uncredited)
1945 Bartender (uncredited)
1945 Truck Driver
1945 Jake (uncredited)
1944 Sergeant George Dunne
1944 Military Police Driver (uncredited)
1944 Sailor (uncredited)
1943 Rudy the Sailor
1942 Guard (uncredited)
1942 Buck
1942 Tough Guy
1942 Deputy (uncredited)
1942 Recruiting Sergeant
1942 Sergeant
1942 Jack - Diner Counterman (uncredited)
1942 Villa Luigi Headwaiter
1942 Jailer (uncredited)
1942 Policeman Temple (uncredited)
1942 Fisherman (uncredited)
1942 Tom's Best Man (uncredited)
1942 Moving Man (uncredited)
1941 Partner
1941 Jamison
1941 Fats Delaney
1941 Bartender
1940 Jim
1940 Highway Patrol Officer
1940 Truck Driver
1940 Guard (uncredited)
1940 Soldier
1940 Headwaiter - Mexican Pete's
1940 Cowboy
1940 Shirtless Ditchdigger (uncredited)
1940 Streetcar Conductor
1940 Sweeney, Driver (uncredited)
1940 Max - Radioman
1940 Waiter (uncredited)
1940 Cab Driver (Uncredited)
1940 Ship Porter (uncredited)
1940 Cherry's Cabbie
1940 Bus Driver Jackson (uncredited)
1940 Bill - Policeman in Car 43
1940 Burglar
1939 Boss Mechanic
1939 Nolan's Henchman (uncredited)
1939 Sailor at Wrestling Match
1939 Brings in Rustler
1939 Policeman (uncredited)
1939 Headwaiter
1939 Police Lt. Joe Wilson
1939 Gangster (uncredited)
1939 Bet Placing Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1939 Salesman
1939 Hanley's Strong-Arm Man
1939 Workman
1939 Guest
1939 Visitor (uncredited)
1939 Joe - Truck Driver-Henchman
1938 Jake - Trucker in Cafe (uncredited)
1938 Hobo
1938 Sam Johnson - Milk Man (uncredited)
1938 Brakeman
1938 Tough Casino Decoy
1938 Chinatown Barker
1938 Blackie
1938 Henchman Kincaid
1937 Joey
1937 Party Guest (uncredited)
1937 Ernie - Counter Girl's Boyfriend
1937 Cell Block E Convict (uncredited)
1937 Shakey
1937 Marine
1937 School Bus Driver (uncredited)
1937 Chuck Cannon
1937 Prison Runner
1937 Baggage Man (uncredited)
1937 Truck Driver in Diner (uncredited)
1937 Dan - Corridor Guard (uncredited)
1936 Reporter
1936 Bennie
1936 Sam, Second Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
1936 Davis
1936 Milkman's Helper on Dock
1936 Diner Trying to Date Helen
1936 Pug O'Leary
1936 Drunken Brawler
1936 Lester - O'Bannion's Driver
1936 Soldier
1936 Fireman
1936 Himself (uncredited)
1936 Man Outside Hotel
1936 Actor Impersonating Kruger in Newsreel (uncredited)
1936 Pirate (uncredited)
1935 Taxi Driver Henchman
1935 Gibson
1935 Morley
1935 Gangster
1935 Reporter
1935 Sailor
1935 Reporter
1934 Reporter
1934 Ernest Dallas
1934 Convict Football Player
1934 Evans - Bob's Chauffeur
1934 Max
1934 Simmons
1934 Slade
1934 Slade
1934 Hold-Up Man
1933 Pete
1933 Policeman in Car (uncredited)
1932 Military Policeman
1932 Vorobiov
1932 Bob
1932 Reporter (uncredited)
1931 Thug
1931 Radio Operator (uncredited)
1930 Convict Road Laborer (extra)
1930 Ferguson - Pilot
1927 A Hood
1927 Sophomore
1927 Student
1927 Bartender
1926 Student