Leicester Wagner

Biography

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.