Wende Wagner

Born: 1941-12-06

From Wikipedia. Born to a U.S. Navy commander and swimming and diving coach father (John H. Wagner) and a mother (Rudy Arnold Wagner) who was a champion skier, Wagner grew up on Coronado Island in California and lived in nearly all the Continental United States with her family's various naval postings.[citation needed] While living in Coronado, California, with her family, Billy Wilder, then filming Some Like It Hot, saw Wagner swimming and offered her a screen test. Her parents forbade it until she completed her senior year at Coronado High School. Some Like It Hot was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado as well as on the Coronado beaches. After graduating, she visited Wilder and did a screen test, but turned down a role in The Apartment. Wagner travelled the world as a fashion model, then made her television debut in an episode of Wagon Train in 1959. While living in the Bahamas she became an underwater stunt double in the series Sea Hunt and The Aquanauts.She also doubled for Joanne Dru in underwater sequences in the 1960 film September Storm. Wagner appeared on What's My Line in December 1960 as a "Stunt skindiver for television films". She married fellow underwater expert Courtney Brown whom she had met while working on the shows. In addition to her scuba diving and swimming she was also a surfer. After having a daughter named Tiffany, she divorced Brown and became contracted to 20th Century Fox. Her film career included roles in Rio Conchos (1964), Out of Sight (1966), Destination Inner Space (1966), A Covenant with Death (1967), Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969). She married and divorced actor James Mitchum. Wagner was also friends with Sharon Tate with the two sharing an apartment for a while. In 1965, she appeared on Perry Mason as defendant Anona Gilbert in "The Case of the Feather Cloak." Wagner also made guest appearances in other television shows including Flipper, Lassie, Mannix, and The Rookies. During 1966-67, she had a regular role as Lenore "Casey" Case, the secretary to Britt Reid on The Green Hornet. Wagner lived in Malibu but lost her home and belongings in a fire. She was active with the Malibu Historical Society.


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Rosemary's Baby

as Rosemary's Girl Friend #2
Released: 1968-06-12

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by...

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Rio Conchos

as Sally
Released: 1964-10-28

Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico...

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Guns of the Magnificent Seven

as Tina
Released: 1969-07-14

In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The...

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The Bait

as 2nd Victim
Released: 1973-03-13

Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of...

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The Green Hornet

as Lenore Case
Released: 1974-03-21

After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together...

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Fury of the Dragon

as Lenore Case
Released: 1976-10-14

Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.

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Out of Sight

as Scuba
Released: 1966-05-12

Teenage beach party/spy spoof/musical comedy about a plot to bomb a music fair. As his boss is...

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Destination Inner Space

as Sandra Welles
Released: 1966-05-01

A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a...

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A Covenant with Death

as Rafaela
Released: 1967-02-15

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged...

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The Green Hornet

as Leonore "Casey" Case
Released: 2005-01-06

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Perry Mason

as Anona Gilbert
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Mannix

as Miss Ellis
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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The Green Hornet

as Leonore "Casey" Case
First aired: 1966-09-09

The Green Hornet is a television series on the ABC US television network that aired for the...

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