Fernando Wagner
Biography
Fernando Wagner was a German actor, director, and teacher who moved to Mexico in 1930 and worked there during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Born in Göttingen in 1905, he trained in Berlin with Max Reinhardt and Leopold Jessner. In Mexico he taught theater and drama at Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he ran an experimental workshop and worked with Seki Sano; his students included Juan José Arreola and Jorge Ibargüengoitia. He wrote Teoria y Tecnica Teatral, a theater textbook published in 1970, and directed several films and telenovelas. His screen acting credits included The Pearl (1947), Adventures of Casanova (1948), The Price of Living (1954), The Empty Star (1958), Su Excelencia (1967), and The Wild Bunch (1969), in which he played the German military advisor to General Mapache.
67years old at death
- Born Göttingen
- Died Cuernavaca
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 21 years1948 to 1969
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Early training
Wagner settled in Mexico in 1930, teaching theater and drama at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and afterward at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he led an experimental theater workshop. His students included Nancy Cárdenas, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Luisa Josefina Hernández, Gunther Gerzso and Juan José Arreola.
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Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Tarzan and the Mermaids1948 Action, Adventure, Romanceas Varga - Pearl Trader
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Worked with
Fernando Wagner shares two films with Ernest Borgnine, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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