Fernando Wagner

Fernando Wagner

Birth : 1906-11-07, Göttingen, Germany

Death : 1973-10-20

History

Fernando Wagner (November 7, 1906 in Göttingen, Germany – October 20, 1973 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a German-born Mexican actor and film director. He had prominent roles in La Perla and The Wild Bunch. His interment was in Mexico City's Panteón Jardín

Profile

Fernando Wagner

Movies

El cielo y tú
Sr. Khoner
Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
The Wild Bunch
Mohr
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Your Excellency
Representante de Salchichonia
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Viva Maria!
Father of Maria II
Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman also named Marie, a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.
Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Editor
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
The White Rose
Von Allpenstock
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Virgin Sacrifice
Director
A white hunter in South America falls in love with a native girl and must save her from becoming a virgin sacrifice.
Virgin Sacrifice
Fernando
A white hunter in South America falls in love with a native girl and must save her from becoming a virgin sacrifice.
This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
Cain Pianni
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
Sierra Baron
Grandall
Director James B. Clark's western, set in 1848 California, is about a brother and sister battling a crooked businessman over property rights.
Seven Cities of Gold
Blacksmith
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Garden of Evil
Steamboat Captain (uncredited)
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
The Witch
Jan
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
El señor fotógrafo
Leader of the villains
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
The Revived Monster
Gherasimos
Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora (miroslava) who is ordered by her boss (Wagner) to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling (Linares Rivas). Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel (Navarro) by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
My Outlaw Brother
Burger
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged with bringing in, El Tigre and his gang of bandits, takes Danny under his wing.
Sofia
Dr. Erik Viertel
A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
Varga, Pearl Trader
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
The Pearl
Dealer 1
A poor Mexican diver discovers a valuable pearl in the ocean, but it brings his family only trouble