Wayne Ernest Maunder was a Canadian-born American actor who starred in three American television series between 1967 and 1974.
Maunder was born in Four Falls in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, but was reared, along with four siblings, in Bangor, Maine, where his family moved when he was four years old and which he considered to be his hometown. His mother was Lydia Maunder (1913–1980).
Maunder graduated in 1957 from Bangor High School, where he played football and baseball.
He studied English literature plus drama at El Camino College Compton Center, then known as Compton Junior College in Compton, California. He participated in an amateur play and began a career in acting.
Maunder made his first screen appearance on February 4, 1967, as Michael Duquesne in "Race for a Rainbow", an episode of The Monroes, starring Michael Anderson, Jr., and Barbara Hershey. Maunder was credited as "James Wilder" on The Monroes, but decided thereafter to return to his own name.
Date of Birth | 19th December 1937 |
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Date of Death | 11th November 2018 |
Age at Death | 80 Years |
Zodiac Sign | Sagittarius |
Country | United States of America |
Current City | Four Falls |
Birth Place | Four Falls |
Nationality | United States of America |
Citizenship | United States of America |
Education |
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Harvard University, Compton College |
Occupation | stage actor, television actor |
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