Wende Wagner

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1941-12-06

Deathday 1997-02-26 (55 years old)

Place of Birth Connecticut, U.S.A.

Wende Wagner

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2005
The Green Hornet

as Leonore "Casey" Case

1976
Fury of the Dragon

as Lenore Case

1974
The Green Hornet

as Lenore Case

1973
The Bait

as 2nd Victim

1968
Rosemary's Baby

as Rosemary's Girl Friend

1967
1967
Mannix

as Miss Ellis

1966
Out of Sight

as Scuba

1966
Destination Inner Space

as Sandra Welles

1966
The Green Hornet

as Leonore "Casey" Case

1964
Rio Conchos

as Sally

1957
Perry Mason

as Anona Gilbert

Crew

1960
The Aquanauts

as Stunts