1. Max Wagner 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.
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 served as a Spanish language coach for other actors, and appeared in many of the "Mexican Spitfire" films starring Lupe Velez, where he served to monitor Velez's Spanish ad-libs for profanity.
In 1940 during the filming of "The Mad Doctor", Max Wagner was credited for driving 50,000 miles as an on-screen taxi driver on the studio back lots of Hollywood.
Max Wagner served with the US Army in the North African Campaign of World War II, and his struggle with alcoholism caused a short break in 1950.
At her own trial several months later, Mackaye testified that Kelly and Raymond had agreed to the fight as a duel, and that Max Wagner was Kelly's second for the duel.
At one point, Max Wagner testified that he brought $800 from Kelly to Mackaye to pay the doctor who attended Raymond before his death, but Max Wagner denied that this payment was meant as part of a cover-up.
In 1952, Max 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.
Max Wagner was a regular cast member on the western television series Gunsmoke, making nearly 80 appearances between 1959 and 1973.
Max Wagner appeared in more than 200 television episodes between 1952 and 1974.
Notable film roles for Max Wagner include a supporting role in the cult science fiction classic Invaders from Mars, an actor playing a gangster in the film-within-a-film segment of Bullets or Ballots, and the bull farm attendant in the Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bullfighters.
Max Wagner occasionally composed music, such as the Mexican folk ballad "Pedro, Rudarte y Simon" in the Western film The Last Trail.
Max Wagner died of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1975.