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Leicester Wagner(1904-1965)

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Leicester Wagner was a Los Angeles newspaperman who occasionally took bit parts in silent films. He was a press agent during the silent era and later in the 1930s for 20th Century-Fox. He was the son of silent film director and magazine publisher Rob Wagner. He was the cousin of actor Max Wagner, cameraman Blake Wagner and screenwriter Jack Wagner. He made his screen debut in 1911 in The Artist's Sons (1911), which was written by his father. In the 1920s, he appeared in numerous Santa Barbara Community Theater productions before taking parts as an extra or bit player in Hollywood films. He helped edit Rob Wagner's Script, a literary film magazine, in 1929 and 1942-44.
BornJuly 19, 1904
DiedNovember 22, 1965(61)
BornJuly 19, 1904
DiedNovember 22, 1965(61)
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Jackie Searl and Jane Withers in Gentle Julia (1936)
Gentle Julia
6.8
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  • 1936
Humphrey Bogart and Florence Marly in Tokyo Joe (1949)
Tokyo Joe
6.3
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  • 1949
Leo Carrillo, George Raft, and Rosalind Russell in It Had to Happen (1936)
It Had to Happen
6.1
  • Additional Crew
  • 1936
Shirley Deane, Charles Gemora, John McGuire, and Warner Oland in Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
Charlie Chan at the Circus
6.8
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  • 1936

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  • Humphrey Bogart and Florence Marly in Tokyo Joe (1949)
    Tokyo Joe
    6.3
    • publicist
    • 1949
  • Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, and Cedric Hardwicke in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    6.5
    • publicist
    • 1949
  • Randolph Scott, Shirley Temple, Gloria Stuart, Phyllis Brooks, Jack Haley, Bill Robinson, and Slim Summerville in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
    7.0
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1938
  • Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
    Tarzan's Revenge
    4.7
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1938
  • Peter Lorre, Thomas Beck, Sidney Blackmer, Pauline Frederick, and Sig Ruman in Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)
    Thank You, Mr. Moto
    6.9
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Ben Bernie, Joan Davis, Bert Lahr, Simone Simon, and Walter Winchell in Love and Hisses (1937)
    Love and Hisses
    6.1
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Field, Robert Kent, and Warner Oland in Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
    Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
    6.7
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Spring Byington, George Ernest, Russell Gleason, Kenneth Howell, Cy Kendall, and Jed Prouty in The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble (1937)
    The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble
    6.4
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Shirley Temple, Thomas Beck, Jean Hersholt, and Helen Westley in Heidi (1937)
    Heidi
    7.2
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Allan, and Warner Baxter in Slave Ship (1937)
    Slave Ship
    6.3
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, and Victor McLaglen in This Is My Affair (1937)
    This Is My Affair
    6.6
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Jane Darwell, Thomas Beck, Sally Blane, Joan Davis, and William Demarest in The Great Hospital Mystery (1937)
    The Great Hospital Mystery
    6.2
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Peter Lorre, Walter Connolly, June Lang, and Victor McLaglen in Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
    Nancy Steele Is Missing!
    6.3
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Bill Burrud, J. Edward Bromberg, Betty Furness, Victor Kilian, Ivan Lebedeff, Gavin Muir, and Andrew Tombes in Fair Warning (1937)
    Fair Warning
    6.3
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Love Is News (1937)
    Love Is News
    6.9
    • publicist (uncredited)
    • 1937

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  • Samson at Calford
    Short
    • Student (uncredited)
    • 1927
  • The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
    The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
    7.5
    • Student (uncredited)
    • 1927
  • Leicester Wagner and Thornton Wagner in The Artist's Sons (1911)
    The Artist's Sons
    Short
    • Lester - the Artist's 1st Son (as Lester Wagner)
    • 1911

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  • Alternative name
    • Lester Wagner
  • Height
    • 5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
  • Born
    • July 19, 1904
    • Detroit, Michigan, USA
  • Died
    • November 22, 1965
    • South Laguna Beach, California, USA(emphysema)
  • Spouse
    • Lucy HowardFebruary 15, 1930 - November 22, 1965 (his death, 2 children)
  • Other works
    Wagner was a reporter for the Santa Barbara Morning Press, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily News, United Press, Fortnight Magazine, the Los Angeles Mirror and the Costa Mesa Daily Pilot. During World War II, he was a news editor for the Office of War Information in India. In the 1950s he appeared on Los Angeles television as a panelist in "Meet the Press."
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    • 5 Articles

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  • Trivia
    For United Press syndication to daily newspapers in 1934, Wagner wrote "As Told To" multi-part autobiographies for Jean Harlow and Mae West.
  • Nickname
    • Les Wagner

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