- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- Les Wagner
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: rwagner@recordnet.com
- SpouseLucy Howard(February 15, 1930 - November 22, 1965) (his death, 2 children)
- For United Press syndication to daily newspapers in 1934, Wagner wrote "As Told To" multi-part autobiographies for Jean Harlow and Mae West.
- Wagner sustained two broken ribs in a brawl with actor Vince Barnett in October 1936 during an event hosted by the Hollywood Photographers' Association at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Wagner was goading Barnett, who had a reputation as a practical joker, and Barnett lashed out with a punch to the face sending Wagner backwards over his chair and breaking two ribs.
- Son of silent film director and writer Rob Wagner (II) and cousin of actor Henry Travers (I), actor Max Wagner (I), cinematographer Blake Wagner (I), screenwriter Jack Wagner (III) and cameraman Robert H. Wagner.
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