Wayne Maunder

Wayne Maunder

Acting
1937-12-19
Four Falls, New Brunswick, Canada

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wayne Ernest Maunder (December 19, 1937 – November 11, 2018) was a Canadian-born American actor who starred in three American television series, Custer, Lancer, and Chase, between 1967 and 1974.

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1The F.B.I.

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Knox Hiller

5.6 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

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#2The F.B.I.

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Earl Gainey

5.6 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

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#3The Rookies

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
DramaCrime

The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.

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#4The Streets of San Francisco

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
CrimeDramaAction & Adventure

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

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#5Lancer

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Scott Lancer

5.6 / 10
Western

Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.

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#6Police Story

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.

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#7Porky's

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Cavanaugh

6.4 / 10
Comedy

In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When the club's owner and his sheriff brother swindle them out of their money and embarrass them, the boys plan revenge.

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#8Chase

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Sam MacCray

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Los Angeles policemen who form a quasi-official unit designated to handle unsolved major criminal cases. Mitchell Ryan stars as Capt. Chase Reddick in this one-hour action-drama, along with regulars Wayne Maunder, Reid Smith, Michael Richardson, Brian Fong, and a dog named Fuzz.

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#9Custer

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as George Armstrong Custer

6.4 / 10
WesternDrama

Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the rank of major general, the youngest in the Union Army. He was demoted after the war during force reductions to the rank of Captain, but was reinstated in 1866 as a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Many of the soldiers in the regiment were derelicts, former Confederates, or even criminals. The series was cancelled before the script timeline would have reached the Little Big Horn River of southeastern Montana, where all perished on June 25, 1876, in a Sioux Indian ambush, Robert F. Simon played Custer's commanding officer, U.S. General Alfred H. Terry, who disapproved of Custer's long hair and much of his methodology of fighting Indians. Slim Pickens starred as a scout named California Joe Milner. Michael Dante appeared as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played Sergeant James Bustard, a former Confederate soldier. Grant Woods appeared as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan, formerly a cavalry officer on NBC's The Deputy, appeared in the episode "Spirit Woman" in the role of a medicine man.

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#10Kate McShane

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Billy

6.0 / 10
Drama

Kate McShane is an American legal drama television series that aired from September 10 until November 12, 1975. Kate McShane was the first series to feaure a female lawyer in the lead role.

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#11The Seven Minutes

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Mike Barrett

5.8 / 10
Drama

To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material. The defense attorneys need to uncover the mystery of the original publication of the book.

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#12Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as McKay

7.2 / 10
AdventureWesternTV Movie

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

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#13The Legend of Custer

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer

5.0 / 10
Western

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip the soldiers into shape to fight, the Kiowa, Sioux and Blackfoot tribes who confront them. These tribes are being supplied shotguns by a white gunrunner and Custer and his men must rescue General Terry and the Fifth Cavalry Regiment from annihilation when they are ambushed and trapped by a large Kiowa war party.

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#14Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Gen. George Armstrong Custer

8.0 / 10
Western

Custer has been demoted from general and is assigned to shape up a squad of soldiers, but it's not long before he disobeys orders and goes into action; at one point, he joins forces with Crazy Horse where he gets the chance to offer the "white man" 's justifications.

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