Max Wagner

About

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...

Known for

ColumboSeries • 1971BonanzaSeries • 1959The Andy Griffith ShowSeries • 1960The Twilight ZoneSeries • 1959The RiflemanSeries • 1958The Life and Legend of Wyatt EarpSeries • 1955GunsmokeSeries • 1955The Abbott and Costello ShowSeries • 1952It's a Wonderful LifeMovie • 1946East of EdenMovie • 1955Rosemary's BabyMovie • 1968To Kill a MockingbirdMovie • 1962Young FrankensteinMovie • 1974True GritMovie • 1969It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldMovie • 1963The Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceMovie • 1962Hang 'em HighMovie • 1968The Grapes of WrathMovie • 1940Fallen AngelMovie • 1945The Great RaceMovie • 1965The Ghost BreakersMovie • 1940The Lost WeekendMovie • 1945A Big Hand for the Little LadyMovie • 1966Support Your Local GunfighterMovie • 1971